Get Louisiana Right: Learfield and SideArm Sports can't

[Turbine]

You would think by now Louisiana could get on the same page as Learfield and Sidearm Sports (Owned by Learfield)

Someone or some entire department inside of Louisiana Athletics is dropping the brand ball..

Just submit "Louisiana" and stop trying to get fancy.

And while your at it, fix the rss feed, all the other Learfield school sites that I checked work.

[Louisiana84]

What the?!?

[fanof71]

Turbine didn't get the memo of the new branding campaign...

[ZoomZoom]

Another reason why I’m starting to have zero confidence in anything out of our athletic department. Can’t get the simplest things right.

[fanof71]

This is on Learfield it would appear...Regardless, someone should be fired..

[HelmutVII]

It looks like a last name first situation to me. Probably computer generated.

[Boomer]

It looks like a last name first situation to me. Probably computer generated.

…….so now the name enemies are we! What a crazy struggle….met with a former Nevada coach last Summer and we talked about the name situation at Nevada Reno and the Lafayette situation…..he mentioned their struggle but it seems they have lost the Reno! We MUST keep fighting!

[Turbine]

It looks like a last name first situation to me. Probably computer generated.

Definitely a database sorting limitation.

Learfield is trying to put everyone in alphabetical order according to the biggest part of their brand name.

If Learfield's SideArmSports put "University of" first then all of all the University of schools will be at the very end of their client listing (1500)

So what they're trying to do is put everything in alphabetical order.

Solution: Louisiana needs to just submit "Louisiana" it has the Ragin' Cajuns logo right next to the name. It would be so clear and uncluttered.

There is no requirement by Learfield to include uniniversity.

You don't have to have "University of" there, especially when it's not the brand for Athletics.

I'd have to look again but none of the Cal Poly schools put University, and so they have a bunch of Cal Poly plus location because that's their branding.

They allow for shortened nicknames, LSU Eunice for example.

It can be fixed.

[CajunVic]

. . . as long as Lafayette is in our name, we are going to be subject to the one size fits all ramifications like the one just identified . . . It just is what it is . . . And most of this just comes out before anyone in charge has had an opportunity to adjust . . .

[Turbine]

. . . as long as Lafayette is in our name, we are going to be subject to the one size fits all ramifications like the one just identified . . . It just is what it is . . . And most of this just comes out before anyone in charge has had an opportunity to adjust . . .

There are several examples in the 1500 where one size does not fit all.

Are you saying there is a lack of on-boarding protocol training for Louisiana employees?

I am positive SideArmSports let's new and existing customers enter their own data.

[CajunVic]

What I’m saying is that when you enter data on a third party site, you are not privy as to the inter algorithms directing how that data will be shown, sorted, displayed . . .

[Turbine]

What I’m saying is that when you enter data on a third party site, you are not privy as to the inter algorithms directing how that data will be shown, sorted, displayed . . .

Diving in without research is one method.

Another is you cover this during their sales pitch. You look at other schools. CalPoly is near the top of the database.

Another is, you review, go in and change it.