Opponents View: 2016 New Orleans Bowl

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Louisiana-Lafayette is no stranger to Southern Miss.

The teams, which have met 50 times in the series' history, will square off again on Dec. 17 (8 p.m., ESPN) in the New Orleans Bowl at the Mercedes Benz Superdome.

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Hattiesburg American

[BeauCajun]

He may want to add a #4 for the correct reference to the sports team they are competing against. He totally butchered it.

[RaginScotsman]

I was just about to write that.

[HoustonCajun]

Louisiana-Lafayette is no stranger to Southern Miss.

The teams, which have met 50 times in the series' history, will square off again on Dec. 17 (8 p.m., ESPN) in the New Orleans Bowl at the Mercedes Benz Superdome.

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Hattiesburg American

The Hattiesburg paper is owned by the same company as The Advertiser. I don't get with all of the information our SID and conference put out about our LOUISIANA name as well as The Advertiser's reference to LOUISIANA and UL, that both the newspaper and the USM SID still won't call us LOUISIANA. Neither, apparently, will the N. O. Bowl. Why are we not having a greater impact on our name with all three of these, never mind the media? WTH does it take to get people on board with this? Is the Sun Belt doing more than just the media release? Is Alden not able to have any national influence? Still waiting to hear Dr. Leger's response on this. If we can't make a splash on a national level with our name on a prime time bowl game, just how and when are we ever going to?

[RaginScotsman]

The Hattiesburg paper is owned by the same company as The Advertiser. I don't get with all of the information our SID and conference put out about our LOUISIANA name as well as The Advertiser's reference to LOUISIANA and UL, that both the newspaper and the USM SID still won't call us LOUISIANA. Neither, apparently, will the N. O. Bowl. Why are we not having a greater impact on our name with all three of these, never mind the media? WTH does it take to get people on board with this? Is the Sun Belt doing more than just the media release? Is Alden not able to have any national influence? Still waiting to hear Dr. Leger's response on this. If we can't make a splash on a national level with our name on a prime time bowl game, just how and when are we ever going to?

I'd like to hear the response from Dr. Leger too. The change was always going to be slow going with the national outlets (although I don't know why. UALR changes to Little Rock and Wisconsin-Green Bay changes to Green Bay and it's changed on ESP-N overnight). We have the support of our conference so there should be no hang up.

You'd like to hear "yes, we submitted UL and the conference's preferred name sheet to the NO Bowl and ESPN." Then it would be up to ESP-N to do it's normal thing and ignore the request.

[CajunAmos]

N.O. Bowl web page

http://www.neworleansbowl.org/

[LaCajunsFan]

The Hattiesburg paper is owned by the same company as The Advertiser. I don't get with all of the information our SID and conference put out about our LOUISIANA name as well as The Advertiser's reference to LOUISIANA and UL, that both the newspaper and the USM SID still won't call us LOUISIANA. Neither, apparently, will the N. O. Bowl. Why are we not having a greater impact on our name with all three of these, never mind the media? WTH does it take to get people on board with this? Is the Sun Belt doing more than just the media release? Is Alden not able to have any national influence? Still waiting to hear Dr. Leger's response on this. If we can't make a splash on a national level with our name on a prime time bowl game, just how and when are we ever going to?

Speaking of our (temp) SID, this is a summary of the email I sent to her yesterday:

"Specifically, will UL be ensuring that the following entities are in compliance to our required branding practices of "Louisiana Ragin Cajuns," or just "Louisiana" for the bowl? :

1. The major media outlets, ESPN, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, etc.
2. The local media: the Picayune, Advocate, etc.
3. The NOLA bowl itself
4. The referees
5. The USM folks

Let's face it.....they want us in NOLA for the money we bring them, so let's make sure that they treat us the way we should be treated.

Thanks, and GEAUX Cajuns!"


And here is her response:

"Thank you for your email. I appreciate your opinion and assure you that we are doing everything possible to expose our brand nationally in a fashion consistent with our branding practice.
Jessica Clarke Leger, Ph.D.


Interim Director of Athletics
University of Louisiana ... at Lafayette
Phone: (337) 482-5393"

[CajunJack55]

Speaking of our (temp) SID, this is a summary of the email I sent to her yesterday:

"Specifically, will UL be ensuring that the following entities are in compliance to our required branding practices of "Louisiana Ragin Cajuns," or just "Louisiana" for the bowl? :

1. The major media outlets, ESPN, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, etc.
2. The local media: the Picayune, Advocate, etc.
3. The NOLA bowl itself
4. The referees
5. The USM folks

Let's face it.....they want us in NOLA for the money we bring them, so let's make sure that they treat us the way we should be treated.

Thanks, and GEAUX Cajuns!"


And here is her response:

"Thank you for your email. I appreciate your opinion and assure you that we are doing everything possible to expose our brand nationally in a fashion consistent with our branding practice.
Jessica Clarke Leger, Ph.D.


Interim Director of Athletics
University of Louisiana ... at Lafayette
Phone: (337) 482-5393"

Consistent branding practices? What's that?

[jllanclos]

Consistent branding practices? What's that?

"Louisiana" ("LA" for tickers). Per university, Sun Belt, and 2 interviews Jessica's done so far on radio.

[RaginScotsman]

Speaking of our (temp) SID, this is a summary of the email I sent to her yesterday:

"Specifically, will UL be ensuring that the following entities are in compliance to our required branding practices of "Louisiana Ragin Cajuns," or just "Louisiana" for the bowl? :

1. The major media outlets, ESPN, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, etc.
2. The local media: the Picayune, Advocate, etc.
3. The NOLA bowl itself
4. The referees
5. The USM folks

Let's face it.....they want us in NOLA for the money we bring them, so let's make sure that they treat us the way we should be treated.

Thanks, and GEAUX Cajuns!"


And here is her response:

"Thank you for your email. I appreciate your opinion and assure you that we are doing everything possible to expose our brand nationally in a fashion consistent with our branding practice.
Jessica Clarke Leger, Ph.D.


Interim Director of Athletics
University of Louisiana ... at Lafayette
Phone: (337) 482-5393"

Thanks for posting.

[Tell The Truth]

I prefer OOOOOOOOOO LA LA or THUG U