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    Quote Originally Posted by CajunZ1 View Post
    _ I'll buy that. But don't you think the Texas Bowl would want to sell more tickets rather than placate Rice? I dunno... _

    The Texas Bowl website indicates 50,000 tickets are already sold. I would think the I Bowl would have preferred a 9-3 WMU to a 6-6 NIU opening up the door for UL to go to the Texas Bowl. However, it would not surprise me if Rice killed it. Rice is 9-3 and would not likely want to play a 6-6 SBC team. Remember how the SBC is viewed around the country. It brings nothing to the table. And, a 6-6 Louisiana-Lafayette is not a marquee matchup.

  2. #42

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarte3 View Post
    _ How about doing something similar to Memphis State did several years ago. Their MSU was perceived as being confused with Miss. State and Mich. State. They changed to the University of Memphis. Why not go with the University of Lafayette? I know, I know some will say that could be confused with the University of Louisville ie, UL, but it makes you more unique. _
    There is already a Lafayette University.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonCajun View Post
    _ The Texas Bowl website indicates 50,000 tickets are already sold. I would think the I Bowl would have preferred a 9-3 WMU to a 6-6 NIU opening up the door for UL to go to the Texas Bowl. However, it would not surprise me if Rice killed it. Rice is 9-3 and would not likely want to play a 6-6 SBC team. Remember how the SBC is viewed around the country. It brings nothing to the table. And, a 6-6 Louisiana-Lafayette is not a marquee matchup. _
    Also remember Rice got smoked last time they played a SBC school in a Bowl game.

  4. #44

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarte3 View Post
    _ You say that UL needs to get rid of the hypenated name to help their prestige. That is not the problem. You say the hypennated name hurts well did you know that USC represents the University of Southern California that sounds directional or regional to me. UCLA is the University of California at Los Angeles sounds just like the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The University of Geogria's offical name is University of Geogria at Athens. In fact I have a friend who is a graduate of Geogria and he has worn school shirts that say UGA and that doesn't stand for the bulldogs name. If you look at scores on ESPN's bottom line a lot of times they will have UGA to represent Geogria instead of UG. In fact you negate your own agreement by the list above. Western Michigan, Northern Illinois, East Carolina, and Southern Mississippi are all directional/regional names but look where they are in a bowl game. At least the SBC got 2 teams in granted one of them wasn't UL but at least you got in more than one so that is some progress. ULL needed 7 wins and/or a quality win over a BCS team which you almost got over Illinois. Stop the nit picking over the name its not going to change win games and it won't matter about the name. Its what you make out of the name not how you are named that counts. _
    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.

  5. #45

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    We snubbed ourselves. We can be as ____ed off as we want, but we played one of the easiest schedules in the country. The teams we beat had a combined losing record of 20 something wins.

    I was ready to make my reservations, but sit back and think about it. We buried ourselves by not winning 7 games. We would have been guaranteed a spot! There are four teams that did not get a bowl bid. The other 3 have to be feeling the same as us today. What I do know is that and I don't have to go into detail, but it's all about the money. Those bowls attract schools that can bring the fans and money! Our perception is a whole other topic.

    We finished the season 1-3.

    We weren't snubbed. We didn't finish what we started AT 5-3.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MetryCajun View Post
    _ The is already a Lafayette University. _
    Yes I know. V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y FOR YOU I said change the name to THE UNIVERSITY OF LAFAYETTE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonCajun View Post
    _ 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. _

    The name got us. I've been waiting for someone to blame "Baton Rouge".

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    HOUSTONCAJUN...

    Good points on the name issue. One other reason the acronyms you noted work for them is because they have been in use for many, many years. Perhaps if Louisiana-Lafayette had begun using ULL from day one, that acronym would be more familiar around the country. Remember, most people know a university from the ESPN bottom line scoreboard. I know that sounds stupid, but really, when you watch the scores roll by, do you ever question who's playing who? Rarely, because you are used to the lettering you see. And, they use UL for Louisville. ULL could only be one school. And, keeping USL (dropping "western") would have put the university way ahead in national recognition by the average fan. And the average fan knows UL as Louisville. Adding a third letter, whether L or A would greatly help. Using ULL doesn't mean you can't still use Louisiana. And, I understand the next question coming along..."why don't they just call us Louisiana?" Don't know. But i"ll bet it would be easier to get "them" to say ULL. or even ULA. Monroe doesn't fight the battle. They want to be called ULM.


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    I see the second L has been dropped in most of the previous post. Use your imagination.


  10. #50

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarte3 View Post
    _ Yes I know. V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y FOR YOU I said change the name to THE UNIVERSITY OF LAFAYETTE. _
    Even more slowly. BOTH universities would be called Lafayette by the casual fan. Can you imagine the confusion?

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