The moment you lost this solider in the Battle for a Name...

[MelRock]

Man y'all are causing me to drink tonight, I usually don't drink.

[Turbine]

Damn guys...leave the players alone. Let the seniors on the team take care of it!

I don't know exactly what this is about but who taught the seniors?

Do you think its trickle down from us teaching Charles Tillman?

I'm asking, I don't know.

[HoustonCajun]

Tone matters.

"refer to the team correctly, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of followers. Louisiana or UL."

That's a disrespectful response to "I need ULL followers."

There are no facial expressions on Twitter. No tone of voice. Just this.

It's disrespectful and lacks the tact and restraint this sort of thing calls for.

There's a time, a place, and a tone for all of this.

Wrong time, wrong place, and wrong tone.

If you don't understand Twitter enough to understand this, you shouldn't be tweeting athletes with anything other than "Congratulations."

When Pat Dye was introduced as the new head coach at Auburn years ago, in his introductory speech he said (and I paraphrase) "It is great to be the head coach of the University of Auburn". He was immediately notified that their correct name is Auburn University. Auburn takes great pride in their name, as they should. So, too, should Louisiana.

[jllanclos]

Yea you're right, twitter is such a complicated vehicle of communication. People should really be careful.

Are you serious? I guess the correct time and place would be when this Jag guy and him were out having a guys night together, throwing back a couple cold ones and arm wrestling..

Twitter isn't complicated. For some, social etiquette is complicated.

This dude chose Louisiana to make his mark on the college football landscape.

We welcome him with an argument over an L, in public, for everyone to see.

One of the first things he ever hears from a Louisiana fan is, "refer to the team correctly, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of followers. Louisiana or UL."

In other words... you're dumb. So let me educate you.

That's not how it was meant. i'm sure of it.

Want to fix that? Add " " to the end. The way you talk to people is important. It's important in person, and it's important on Social Media.

I want Otha to be glad he decided to come here.

But instead he's greeted with arguments over an "L." Never mind all the interviews he's done where he called us UL or Louisiana.

Never mind adding context to show tone in what you're saying.

Just dude... you don't have followers because you call us ULL. Get with the program.

Not Hi, Otha, nice to meet you. Glad you're a Ragin' Cajun.

But.

Hi, stranger. The reason you don't get no love is because you say ULL, dummy. Get with the program.

That's how it comes across. That's how we act every time we see an extra "L."

And that's why kickback is often so strong from people who otherwise couldn't care less.

I can't teach manners and respect. But I'm beginning to understand some of the blowback we get from people who couldn't give less of a crap about this, but see the way we act (like this) and think that's a normal way to behave.

But whatever. I'll start using "Ragin' Cajuns" exclusively and bow out of my forrmerly exclusive use of "Louisiana."

Good luck. i hope you win. I wish your tact and tactics were wiser.

[jllanclos]

When Pat Dye was introduced as the new head coach at Auburn years ago, in his introductory speech he said (and I paraphrase) "It is great to be the head coach of the University of Auburn".

That's the appropriate time, place, and tone for that response.

[basinbear]

Lets keep posting about this and by Sunday maybe everyone in the known Universe will know of it....

[AstroCajun]

Somebody done got his jimmies all rustled.

[ManAboutTown]

140 characters correct?
I didn't see a problem with what was written.
But now he knows, and so do other people on the team, his fam, his followers, etc. If he's offended by a quick lesson on how to take pride in the team and school you attend, what does that say about him?

I digress.

[jllanclos]

140 characters correct?
I didn't see a problem with what was written.
But now he knows, and so do other people on the team, his fam, his followers, etc. If he's offended by a quick lesson on how to take pride in the team and school you attend, what does that say about him?

I digress.

"If he's offended, so what?"

A. LSU Tiger fan
B. Ragin' Cajun hospitality

I can't teach Ragin' Cajuns how to be reasonable.

Too many fanbases tweet players with the attitude that what they say doesn't matter. "If he's offended by something I say, he's not the guy we want on our team," says the Twitter quarterback. The stranger that thinks he needs to teach another stranger a lesson in public.

That's Ragin' Cajun hospitality?

Got it.

[CajunJack55]

I guarantee you this guy has seen his share of nasty tweets and comments playing in th SEC. This is not one of them. I don't think Otha is losing any sleep tonight.