
Originally Posted by
HoustonCajun
_ First of all, I would take ULA like Georgia (UGA) and Virginia (UVA) use. Secondly, almost every major university has the city tag, but doesn't use it athletically, e.g. Texas at Austin, Nebraska Lincoln, North Carolina Chapel Hill, California Berkeley, Wisconsin Madison, Minnesota Twin Cities, Nevada Reno, etc. I don't care that we are the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Just call us Louisiana, athletically. Thirdly, all of the other schools you mentioned have directional names, not hyphenated names. I would rather have been the University of South Louisiana (USL) than continue to fight the U LA LA and Louisiana-Lafayette image. The only hyphenated schools that have a positive image are the ones that have great acronyms and are in good conferences, like UCLA, UNLV, UTEP and UAB. NOBODY calls UCLA California-Los Angeles. And, as for as another post that we can't be UL because Louisville is UL, that is preposterous. There are 3 OSUs, Ohio State, Oregon State and Oklahoma State. There are 2 UTs, Texas and Tennessee, there are several UMs, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Maryland. So, why are we the only team that can't be called UL, just because only one other schools uses that? And, in fact, they don't use UL, they use U of L or just L.
I agree, we win 7 and we are in no matter what our name is. But, we didn't win 7 and could have been selected with a 6-6 record. We weren't and I believe our name had something to do with it as did our conference affiliation and worthless commissioner. _