Old school Cajuns Football swag

[zeppelincajun]

I say "you" generally in reference to all UL fans. I think that was pretty obvious.

Also, you seem incredibly triggered by my comments, which is weird because I think I'm being pretty reasonable.

Triggered? No. Just quick to set you straight for calling UL fans weird or riddled with self esteem issues. Other people’s insecurities and obsessions created this situation. Not ours. Spin that narrative elsewhere to people who are ignorant enough to buy it.

[zeppelincajun]

Also, regardless of who might be at fault for the name issue--and I don't claim to know the whole history of it--I know one thing for certain: it seriously shouldn't matter. There are much more important issues than what people commonly call the school.

Thank you for confirming your ignorance on the situation.

[JAB]

Sometimes your path is dictated for you, back in 1984 when the governing entity of all things in the UL System voted 17 to 1 to rename the school University of Louisiana, a select few other schools in the state said no we care about what you call yourself.

It was weird.

Then an assigned (LSU educated) judge decided that while there's no law that says you (UL System) can't change a schools name, there's no law that says you can, therefore you can't.

It was weird.

Like I said, I don't claim to know the whole history of it, and it's very possible that UL has a legitimate dispute as to what its name should be.

But that doesn't answer my question as to why it still matters so much to UL fans today, forty years later.

[CajunVic]

. . . lot's of weird shiette coming out in this thread . . . sign up and wear it if the shoe fits . . . Roxy for Mascot . . .

[zeppelincajun]

Like I said, I don't claim to know the whole history of it, and it's very possible that UL has a legitimate dispute as to what its name should be.

But that doesn't answer my question as to why it still matters so much to UL fans today, forty years later.

Has the wrong been corrected…forty years later?

Why are you concerned with why other people care about it? Isn’t that weird using your own logic?

[JAB]

Has the wrong been corrected…forty years later?

Why are you concerned with why other people care about it? Isn’t that weird using your own logic?

I wasn't even the one who made it a big deal. I was making a totally independent point and used the name issue (as well as other issues) as an example. But it apparently struck some sort of nerve.

[CajunVic]

. . . it is truly amazing the number here who can't see the difference between something being weird and being called weird . . . that characteristic is way short of weird on my list . . .

[Turbine]

Like I said, I don't claim to know the whole history of it, and it's very possible that UL has a legitimate dispute as to what its name should be.

But that doesn't answer my question as to why it still matters so much to UL fans today, forty years later.

Part of the perpetuation was this. After the name change the school put out a guideline page stating We are not ULL, do not call us ULL, call us by such and such prefered branding.

Certain newspapers in the state out of spite started dogmaticly calling the school ULL.

When this "know your place" message is prevalant, it is not so weird for fans to react and get in a mode of sorts.

[CajunVic]

Part of the perpetuation was this. After the name change the school put outa guideline page stating We are not ULL, do not call us ULL, call us by such and such prefered branding.

Certain newspapers in the state out of spite started dogmaticly calling the school ULL.

When this "know your place" message is prevalant, it is not so weird for fans to react and get in a mode of sorts.

. . . so why all the trigger over the throwback use of SLI and USL . . . this has not a darn thing to do with ULL . . .

[JAB]

Part of the perpetuation was this. After the name change the school put outa guideline page stating We are not ULL, do not call us ULL, call us by such and such prefered branding.

Certain newspapers in the state out of spite started dogmaticly calling the school ULL.

When this "know your place" message is prevalant, it is not so weird for fans to react and get in a mode of sorts.

It's always perfectly reasonable for people to get upset about some sort of injustice. I get that. The question is whether the response is proportionate.

Also, some people in here need to take a lesson from Turbine about how to have a level headed discussion.

[CajunVic]

It's always perfectly reasonable for people to get upset about some sort of injustice. I get that. The question is whether the response is proportionate.

Also, some people in here need to take a lesson from Turbine about how to have a level headed discussion.

. . . you been watching to much Fox News with that "response is proportionate" bs . . .

[ZoomZoom]

Part of the perpetuation was this. After the name change the school put outa guideline page stating We are not ULL, do not call us ULL, call us by such and such prefered branding.

Certain newspapers in the state out of spite started dogmaticly calling the school ULL.

When this "know your place" message is prevalant, it is not so weird for fans to react and get in a mode of sorts.

Well, my USL stuff all went to collectors and/or donated, while anything I had with Lafayette or ULL went to the garbage except for one thing.

I kept the black baseball hat that years ago started the push to UL…had UL on the front, Lafayette on the back strap. Remember a meltdown started in some areas of the state over it.