No LOUISIANA for Cheer Team

[Turbine]

Does she want to get rid of
https://LOUISIANA.edu

[Esqueleto]

This weekend I was talking to KK Jr as the apple of his eye is currently a UL cheerleader. For those that don’t KNOW cheer got a new coach this year that I think moved up from the HS ranks. That coach told the cheerleaders that they can no longer use LOUISIANA in their cheers and they had to remove the LOUISIANA lettering from on there megaphones and replace it with the stacked Ragin Cajuns logo. In all cheers LOUISIANA has been replaced with Ragin Cajuns.

Her reasoning for doing this as explained to the cheer team is any school in the state can claim Louisiana and we are not the only school in Louisiana. The cheer team did not agree and did give some push back. Don’t know if what the final out come will be yet.

If this is true, she needs to be fired immediately.

[KajunKrazy]

I guess the cheerleader coach should tell Dr. Maggard to remove Louisiana from our sports' uniforms then. Why are we still fighting this inhouse? It's 2023.

The cheer team told her the shirt you are wearing has Louisiana on it. You can’t make this stuff up.

[MountainDew]

I didn't have "fire the cheerleading coach" on the agenda for this Monday. But I'll go ahead and move it to the top of the list.

[CajunFun]

What’s the big deal? Louisiana, I’m told isn’t the brand. I’m told Ragin Cajun’s is the brand.

We have several brands associated: Ragin' Cajuns, UL, University of Louisiana, Vermilion & White, and others.

I was a cheerleader, I certainly don't want to criticize the new coach. But the fight for 'University of Louisiana' began in 1980, and 'Louisiana' along with it. We fought hard for those brands.

On the other hand, I have noted repeatedly that we simply don't need to worry about it. Even on the old boards I argued that once the national media started calling us 'Louisiana' and 'UL,' it would be game over.

Well, we won that battle years ago, and every step we make forward just cements our identity further.

Which is why the current in-state stuff is pettiness that will probably never go away.* We should ignore it and focus on the great things that are happening, and the things we can easily improve.

*An interesting note however. My daughter went to summer camp in north Louisiana, one of her counselors goes to ULM... but she's a big UL fan. I like the fact that it shows we're making progress, but I would prefer that everyone be, as the Beach Boys advised, true to their school.

[KajunKrazy]

Is this something the cheerleading coach did on their own or were they instructed by higher ups to do this? Either way it is something that should not happen. WE ARE LOUISIANA! Promote it whenever and wherever you can.

Her own.

[JMV JustMyView]

The cheer team told her the shirt you are wearing has Louisiana on it. You can’t make this stuff up.

Somebody needs to blow her email and Maggards email up. JMV has sent his.

[CajunVic]

I didn't have "fire the cheerleading coach" on the agenda for this Monday. But I'll go ahead and move it to the top of the list.

. . . can we at least get a picture first so we can determine if she can be rehabilitated . . .

[CajunVic]

Somebody needs to blow her email and Maggards email up.

. . . what about you . . .

[cajun4life]

We have several brands associated: Ragin' Cajuns, UL, University of Louisiana, Vermilion & White, and others.

I was a cheerleader, I certainly don't want to criticize the new coach. But the fight for 'University of Louisiana' began in 1980, and 'Louisiana' along with it. We fought hard for those brands.

On the other hand, I have noted repeatedly that we simply don't need to worry about it. Even on the old boards I argued that once the national media started calling us 'Louisiana' and 'UL,' it would be game over.

Well, we won that battle years ago, and every step we make forward just cements our identity further.

Which is why the current in-state stuff is becomes pettiness that will probably never go away.* We should ignore it and focus on the great things that are happening, and the things we can easily improve.

*An interesting note however. My daughter went to summer camp in north Louisiana, one of her counselors goes to ULM... but she's a big UL fan. I like the fact that it shows we're making progress, but I would prefer that everyone be, as the Beach Boys advised, true to their school.

He’s no fan of the university.