2016: LA the new "official" abbreviation for stats, crawls, etc

[Tell The Truth]

Why not just call yourself L-for losers. Rebrand all you want but until you put a respectable non cheating product on the field no one outside of lafayette will really care. You cheated your way into bowl games and still refuse to accept the fact that you didn't win them. Why can't usl fans be proud of what you are and stop trying to be something you are not nor will ever be. You are as of right now the worst football program in the state excluding southern and grambling. Please don't embarrass the state anymore by putting LOUISIANA on you uniforms-You will never get my respect until you respect yourself and stop this nonsense.

[cajun4life]

Cajuns released new branding for athletics today: First reference: Louisiana. Abbreviation for stats, crawls, etc. LA. ULL or UL-L: No

— jay walker (@jayespn1420) November 7, 2016

Let's see how well this works...

Lmao.

[Turbine]

Whuh? The Los Angeles Ragin Cajuns? What does UL-LAF,UL-L,UofL@L,Lou-laf mean to everyone? What does UT mean to most? Does that hurt Tennessee? USC?doesnt hurt South Carolina. If people can't correlate LA with Louisiana Ragin Cajuns then we can't help those idiots...LA, you know the actual abreviation of the state of Louisiana

"LA" on every State road sign, and every letter and package coming or going in and out of Louisiana.

LA is not confused with L.A.

jmo

[CajunJack55]

So is there gonna be an official announcement or press release or anything like that??

[31Ragin97]

So is there gonna be an official announcement or press release or anything like that??

This thread doesnt do that?

[CajunEXPRESS]

Whuh? The Los Angeles Ragin Cajuns? What does UL-LAF,UL-L,UofL@L,Lou-laf mean to everyone? What does UT mean to most? Does that hurt Tennessee? USC?doesnt hurt South Carolina. If people can't correlate LA with Louisiana Ragin Cajuns then we can't help those idiots...LA, you know the actual abreviation of the state of Louisiana

You overlooked UL or UofL which 99.99% would identify with Louisville. LA won't be nearly as confusing. If they added this LA. It would be clear LA. we already use a - in the last La would of course be best of all.

[ZoomZoom]

Dear UL administration,

I went to the DMV yesterday to obtain a plate for our project car. My last purchase, I gladly paid the $100 fee to obtain a plate with "UL Ragin' Cajuns" and the fleur de lies on it, and supported our university.

Today's version had the generic "Louisiana" at the top with Ragin' Cajuns at the bottom, and the ever popular hot wheels logo on it. I understand the inmates no longer make embossed plates and all are now generically flat. WHY CHANGE THE DESIGN???

With the generic "Louisiana" on all state plates, the message WE as supporters want to see is NOT there. Sorry, you guys missed another "minor" $150.00 (yes, it went up). It honestly saddened me not to buy it, but message is watered down or actually not there, much like your crawfish job vs ULM a few years back.

Besides doing a press release, please grow a set and stand firm.

[ManAboutTown]

Dear UL administration,

I went to the DMV yesterday to obtain a plate for our project car. My last purchase, I gladly paid the $100 fee to obtain a plate with "UL Ragin' Cajuns" and the fleur de lies on it, and supported our university.

Today's version had the generic "Louisiana" at the top with Ragin' Cajuns at the bottom, and the ever popular hot wheels logo on it. I understand the inmates no longer make embossed plates and all are now generically flat. WHY CHANGE THE DESIGN???

With the generic "Louisiana" on all state plates, the message WE as supporters want to see is NOT there. Sorry, you guys missed another "minor" $150.00 (yes, it went up). It honestly saddened me not to buy it, but message is watered down or actually not there, much like your crawfish job vs ULM a few years back.

Besides doing a press release, please grow a set and stand firm.

Get in touch with Jim Harris about this. He will listen to you.

[HoustonCajun]

My initial thoughts:

1. Very positive move in branding us as LOUISIANA and LA.
2. We should NOT be telling anyone what NOT TO CALL US, only our preferred name.
3. Dr. S needs to make sure that Bruno at ULM is aware of this and will not contest our use. That is important in getting the Sun Belt Conference to immediately begin calling us LOUISIANA.
This has been done
4. Dr. S needs to contact Benson at the SBC and demand our immediate recognition as LOUISIANA. Doubtful any other media will follow our request if our conference won't.
This has been done
5. We need to quit using Ragin Cajuns ONLY and start using LOUISIANA. Need to tie-in our moniker with our name.
This is being done
6. We now need to clean-up our logos using school colors and getting rid of the orange/yellow flames. See images below for examples.
From what I've been told, expect a lot more FDL.

This supposed to be retroactive to Nov. 1. Just checked the Sun Belt Conference website. We are still UL Lafayette. Maybe just not enough time yet for the website correction. I will be curious to see how other SBC teams refer to us now. I would expect (hope) that Benson will put out a News Release in that regard to conference members and to the Media. This needs major Media attention. It will also be interesting to see how newspapers in Louisiana refer to us going forward.

[ManAboutTown]

This supposed to be retroactive to Nov. 1. Just checked the Sun Belt Conference website. We are still UL Lafayette. Maybe just not enough time yet for the website correction. I will be curious to see how other SBC teams refer to us now. I would expect (hope) that Benson will put out a News Release in that regard to conference members and to the Media. This needs major Media attention. It will also be interesting to see how newspapers in Louisiana refer to us going forward.

You know the biggest battle will be in the state of LA. I'm told that ESPN seems to be onboard and the AP is in talks with us. Get those guys on the same page and everyone else will follow.

You know me enough to know that my confidence level with our suits is not very high.. But I believe this time, it's the real deal.

[VObserver]

You know the biggest battle will be in the state of LA. I'm told that ESPN seems to be onboard and the AP is in talks with us. Get those guys on the same page and everyone else will follow.

You know me enough to know that my confidence level with our suits is not very high.. But I believe this time, it's the real deal.

I don't doubt that this is real. T-Joe and Farmer see how many supporters and how much money they are losing by not doing anything proactive with regard to the Alden Report. This is something they can do for almost no money or effort. When they do something real, like buy production equipment or separate RCAF or hire someone like IMG to handle marketing and branding, let me know.

[HoustonCajun]

The thing is, if we're selling the other parties on this because of ease of use, or less confusing, etc, wouldn't it defeat the purpose to have UL on the hats, and LA on the screen? Idk, just seems odd to me.

I don't know that it would be confusing. Look at other school examples. Their ticker and logo do not match.

Louisville - uses U of L and an Old English L as their logos, but the ticker says Lou.
Nebraska - uses N as their logo, but ticker says Neb.
Michigan - uses M as their logo, but ticker says Mich.
Tennessee - uses T as their logo, but ticker says Tenn.

We haven't defined what we are using for our logo, only our team name, LOUISIANA, and ticker reference, LA.

Let's compare us to Texas:

1. TEXAS (University of Texas at Austin)
2. Longhorns
3. "T" or "UT"
4. Tex (ticker)

Here are the things we should use.

1. LOUISIANA (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
2. Fleur de Lis
3. UL (see below)
4. LA (ticker)

Use of UL without the city tag is illegal, which is why we went with LA instead of UL. However, look at the logo below with a UL and the state of Louisiana shadow. It is legal. It has the L for Lafayette and the state for Louisiana. Technically, it says ULL. Visually, it says UL. And the state shadow clearly distinguishes it from Louisville. And, since we are emphasizing the FDL, it is on the logo where the city of Lafayette is located within the state. A simple, clear, comprehensive UL logo (with or without the Ragin Cajuns).