(Yet Another) Name Thread

[Ragingolfer]

Tulane then. The point is that quality of education is more important.

[Ragingolfer]

It was but then it got shifted to a ULL is better than tech thread. And I guess anything to cover the original point is what has happened.

[CajunFun]

The only thing that LaTech has on UL is that tier I status.

Yeah, but how long will that last? First of all, Tier "one" is now over 75% of major universities, it has little meaning any more.

Second, as we have success in various academic and athletic areas (yes, people who have looked at the numbers carefully have found a strong correlation with athletic success, at least for public universities), the perceived advantage of LTU will disappear.

Third, LTU may not really qualify for Tier 1. They "exaggerate" a lot, and we're catching them at it more and more. My favorite was a meeting they had with other Louisiana universities, and someone pointed out that they brag about their low student-teacher ratio, and also brag about high per-faculty research funding. Problem is, for the first you need more faculty, for the second you need fewer-- and the numbers didn't stack up when you compared them.

The LTU representative was crawfishing and sputtering like crazy when our people pointed it out.

[Ragin9221]

You understand that your argument is flawed because UL could never officially become University of Louisiana. It will always be University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Second what does academics have to do with athletics? We are just trying to become known as Louisiana athletically, not academically.

[Ragingolfer]

Then it should be an easy thing to achieve for ULL

[CajunDreDog]

Saying

I'm not a troll
I'm not a troll
I'm not a troll

Makes you a troll...good day

Y'all stop feeding him.

[CajunFun]

Tulane then. The point is that quality of education is more important.

Tulane isn't higher ranked because of the quality of education. There are no reliable rankings for instructional quality.

Tulane is higher ranked because of popularity: the people who vote on the rankings think it's better, mostly because it's very exclusive in its admissions, which is because the students perceive it as a better school, which is because the people who vote think it's better...

You get the idea.

My main point is that so much of 'rankings' of higher ed have nothing to do with the core industries, not undergrad instruction, not graduate production, not research. Consider that in research funding, UL now surpasses Tulane.

[Turbine]

Then it should be an easy thing to achieve for ULL

Not so easy ... ULL doesn't exist.

[CajunFun]

Then it should be an easy thing to achieve for ULL

Who is ULL?

And what does being a ragin' golfer have to do with being a Ragin' Cajun? Seems to me the second one is an achievement.

The first one is pretty much a failure...

[Ragin9221]

As a person who graduated in education, I do believe that the quality of an education is more important.