Savoie on the Budget Cuts

[Hammer58]

_ It worked for Northeast Louisiana as it got them a name change to ULM and admittance to the SBC. And, the beginning of identity misery for UL. _

It may have worked out that way for them but it wasn't part of any master plan by them. Their opposition to the name change and eventual agreement to the subsequent standards put in place were two entirely different issues with different circumstances driving their actions.

[MissingMandy]

_ “with the strong support of powerful LSU backers on and off the Board,”

Names? How do you know they were LSU backers or even powerful? Didn’t the previous paragraph say administrators at other schools were against it? Yet only the LSU chancellor gets mentioned as opposing the change.

“Judge Brown was an alumnus of LSU, and an active supporter of that school, he did not recuse himself from the case despite this apparent conflict of interest. “

Would it been ok if a Southern grad would have made the ruling? I would bet that 80% of the judges in Louisiana are LSU Law School grads and the other 20% from Southern, Tulane or Loyola. The only judges without an alleged conflict of interest would have to be educated out of state. I am sure one was available but how practicle was that.

“UL Lafayette (“LOUISIANA”), similar to UC Berkeley (“CALIFORNIA”), UT Knoxville (“TENNESSEE”), UA Fayetteville (“ARKANSAS”), UNC Chapel Hill ("NORTH CAROLINA"), and UT Austin (“TEXAS”), among others, is the largest and oldest of the schools that share the same name.”

Wrong. All of the above are flagship universities of their respective systems in addition to being the oldest and original, except UL-Lafayette. Since there is no official flagship university of the UL system there is no “Louisiana”. But we can pretend! _

Why does this matter to you?

[bballholic]

_ And you are an alumnus of what university????? _

I'm an alumnus of LSU, but I do quite a bit of work in the Lafayette area. My family owns an oil company in Lafayette, and I'm in the business as well. If I'm around town and the Cajuns are playing, I see nothing wrong with attending a few games regardless of what school I attended. My father in-law played baseball at UL (USL at the time), and I've made several bball games with him over the years. I have a lot of good friends that have also attended UL, and I've gone to basketball and football games over the years if LSU isn't playing at the same time. Personally, I have season tickets for LSU football and basketball, and split a set of baseball tickets with an attorney out of Lafayette. I'm a huge fan of collegiate athletics in general, and I enjoy visiting different venues.

[RaginFan2]

_ Not quite. The Lake Chuck representative (Newman) and Monroe rep (Swearingen) oppossed it. Of course, it was funny that later when Swearingen took over at moanroe he tried to use the UL name. _

Hammer, I think he was referring to the board vote, not the subsequent move by the legislature to overturn it.

[Hammer58]

_ Hammer, I think he was referring to the board vote, not the subsequent move by the legislature to overturn it. _

I stand corrected.

[cajunhawk]

Riverranchman is the eptiome of a paper tiger.

[ManAboutTown]

_ Riverranchman is the eptiome of a paper tiger. _

Exacly. No matter what we say, or how solid and obvious our points are, they will always have some kind of spin to add to it. There is an agenda out there, plain and simple. From Politics to athletics, LSU has held this state (and UL particularly) hostage for decades.

[Turbine]

_ If I remember correctly the vote was 100% by the UL system schools for the name change of USL to UL!!!!! _

It is in paragraph 1 of "Battle for a Name"

The vote was 17-1 by the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities who had the same executive rights as the Board of Regents.

It is funny and sad, when the Judge couldn’t find a law prohibiting executive name changes by the Board of Trustees he used the backdoor "there is no law that says you can" route. By that logic I think it is illegal to drive a car at high noon.

[AstroCajun]

_ I'm going to go visit a La Tech board and UL (Monroe) board to see if they have the same amount of hate towards LSU. _

You bet your sweet ass they do.

Fact is, the Techies have us beat in droves on that point.

P.S. you'll find a lot more sympathizers on the Monroe board.

[AstroCajun]

Problem with that is you’re the minority in town.

No, the problem is that you think you are the majority in town when the reality is more of a plurailty.

No, I am not an LSU graduate, either. _

That's as obvious as it is pathetic.