Got to be kidding me!

[HoustonCajun]

The end zone script sounds like the same as last years. now unless they have made the word "Lafayette" larger I would be upset. Time will come when it will be dropped but I believe we have to live with it w/o upsetting our illustrious TIGER RUN state government. If you haven't noticed lately, but LSU is on a publicity run. Everything they do lately is getting there NAME out. In all aspects of our lives, souvenirs, newspaper headlines, the New Orleans Saints,you name it and they have to have their name associated with every bid of this state. When you think of Katrina effecting sports in Louisiana, its the Saints and LSU, not Nicholls or SLU, its them . It makes me sick. So, don't get too upset with Lafayette in the end zone. Remember, Its a great city too.

ULM has Louisiana on their football helmets and played LSU in Baton Rouge last year with that same helmet and nothing happend. After 5 years, it is time for this university to start taking bolder steps athletically with the name Louisiana. We are getting mroe and more entrenched nationally, statewide, and even within our own conference as Louisiana-Lafayette. Only in Lafayette (sometimes) and in this forum and the Delphi forum are we Louisiana. This mixed messages given by the athletic department and the university are creating this and it is time to be consistent about who we are.

[Sonsissymia]

suggestion: let's worry about how the team looks PLAYING ON the field, as opposed to how the name looks SPELLED ON the field. my god.

[lxa656]

Can somebody tell me what will happen if we break the rules and don't put "lafayette" in the endzones?

Will the Chief of Name Police bend Dr. Authement over his knee and give him a spanking?

Seriously what could they do to us? My guess would be not a damn thing! Although that spanking sure would be interesting.

My guess would be more along the lines of getting funds cut. Also, i think painting the "lafayette" green on a green field is better than everything else.

[shof]

suggestion: let's worry about how the team looks PLAYING ON the field, as opposed to how the name looks SPELLED ON the field. my god.

There was a time when I would have agreed with your statement. I still agree that it is more important to put a good product on the field and start winning games. However, we continually hear the "university policy" on what we should or shouldn't be called; then they turn around and start proliferating "Lafayette". Hey, I agree its a great place to be and live; but if our own officials continue to display/use "Lafayette", then its going to be a much longer road to becoming recognized as the "University of Louisiana". A lot of folks on this board have been living with this issue for over 20 years now. So I can see how its easy to get would up about it.

[NCAA or BUST]

In the past month two people I know called us Lafayette and they thought they were correct. If the policy makers can't see the result they are blind.

[CDeb]

suggestion: let's worry about how the team looks PLAYING ON the field, as opposed to how the name looks SPELLED ON the field. my god.

Such comments are quite silly.

The discussion on this forum does not affect the play on the field one single iota. Talk about the name and other issues that you might think are silly will not make the team play any worse and talk about the X's and O's will not make them play any better. That's what these forums are for: for people to talk about whatever they want to regarding UL athletics. If you don't like it, don't click on the discussion. You can go be Paul Bryant in another thread.

[Sonsissymia]

Such comments are quite silly.

The discussion on this forum does not affect the play on the field one single iota. Talk about the name and other issues that you might think are silly will not make the team play any worse and talk about the X's and O's will not make them play any better. That's what these forums are for: for people to talk about whatever they want to regarding UL athletics. If you don't like it, don't click on the discussion. You can go be Paul Bryant in another thread.

deb

yesterday it was suggested i not listen to Jay's show 'if i didn't like it.' today you suggest i go to another thread 'if i don't like' the discussion. all because i post something the replier disagrees with. deb, how do you have discussions if all the sides of the issue aren't explored? i know you don't like it to be ul-lafayette, but you don't want it to be ul-bejing either, right? it's still a free country, right?, and i can be in whatever discussion i choose, right? so deb, although i'd like you to, i'm not going to suggest that YOU go to another thread.

[Turbine]

The University of Lousiana followed by where you are located is one thing. . .

But when Lafayette is the singular focus I have a problem.

Lafayette is the singular focus of UL-Lafayette

[BabbForHeisman]

We are getting mroe and more entrenched nationally, statewide, and even within our own conference as Louisiana-Lafayette. Only in Lafayette (sometimes) and in this forum and the Delphi forum are we Louisiana. This mixed messages given by the athletic department and the university are creating this and it is time to be consistent about who we are.

If you look in the back of the media guide, the section that talks about proper reference to the university's name is titled "Its Louisiana-Lafayette!"

That doesn't look like a mixed message to me, it looks like the wrong message!

[Turbine]

If you look in the back of the media guide, the section that talks about proper reference to the university's name is titled "Its Louisiana-Lafayette!"

That doesn't look like a mixed message to me, it looks like the wrong message!

where is the "at"?

According to the law, Lafayette only needs to be included if "University of" precedes Louisiana.