Let The Political Correctness Begin

[CajunNation]

Just received this communique for posting on this forum. Let me know if you have any interest in joining our ranks.

There are many ways to join The Dark Side.

The most common way is to support an Indy move.

Another way is to endorse another name change to end this once and for all.

I and Lord Vador await your allegiance.

-- Darth Sidious

[CajunRebel]

After so many years of having the "New" name and to not have the desired name (Louisiana) not resonate with ESPN, AP, Sports Illustrated, The Advocate, Nola.com, not to mention the former university SID and others who now opine in local, weekly rags is the single biggest mistake possibly ever made by the "smartest people in the room" who used to run this university. Sure, winning has certainly helped, but the more success the RC have, the more important this name thing will become. How has all of the bastardization of title, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Laf, ULL, LA Laf, etc) benefited anyone associated with the school? U LA LA work for anyone here? Of course not....
These people who run the university are supposed to be smart. I know Joe S. is a very smart, intelligent guy. You would have to be the village idiot to believe that anything other than UL, (sometimes even ULL) or Louisiana isn't the right and correct choice of non-official names. For me, a 25 year media marketing guru, something is telling me there is more to this story, especially in light of what's been going on the last few weeks. And I don't think its a case of Doc S and his immediate staff not caring. I'm 5 states removed from Lafayette and I can see that. Now, the Comm and Marketing Office may not care, the new "smartest people in the room" may not care, but there are thousands and thousands of others who do care that the university stop accepting these mistakes from national media, like ESPN. Something about all of this, including those who "don't care" doesn't seem to make sense in light of ESPN referring to the school as they like, with no accountability or recourse by the University. Sort of like IUPUI baskeball. You know the school is in Indiana, you're just not sure what all these letters mean. Same thing.

Whether they care or don't care, ultimately ESPN's decision to use UL or ULL is not Martin Hall's to make. What accountability or recourse are you expecting the University to take? Seriously, what are you expecting Martin Hall to do? Because as far as I know they've done just about everything in their power to convince ESPN to use Louisiana.

[CajunRebel]

Pretty sure we're a whole hell of a lot closer than we were 5 years ago.

I couldn't disagree more with this. They started pushing hard for Louisiana immediately after we changed our name. We've been spinning our wheels for the past 13 years.

[CajunRebel]

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I'm almost on board.

[MelRock]

Please someone tell me where our other sports are going to play if we go independent in football?

[Just1More]

See, this is where i think your argument dies a little. In retrospect, we've really only pushed hard promoting Louisiana for about 4-5ish years out of those 30, including the past 3 years. We're no closer? Pretty sure we're a whole hell of a lot closer than we were 5 years ago.

Not only are you correct about the recentness of our branding push of "Louisiana Ragin Cajuns"... we've only recently had these levels of challenges... due to a mix of success and national TV coverage. We've never expected the rest of the state to go along with our branding or preferred naming.

The two groups we're working on are "us" and the "outside the state" entities. We've hit a snag with ESPN... due to the SBC and ULM... in combination. There are more paths to take before throwing in the towel. I do believe T-Joe has to make it clear to us whether he's in for the long haul on the branding name. Silently riding the fence doesn't appear to be a solid strategy.

And if Oiler were correct... all of these articles and issues that sprang to life in the last few months... would have happened long before now. We're at one of our first big barrier tests with our branding initiative.

[Just1More]

I couldn't disagree more with this. They started pushing hard for Louisiana immediately after we changed our name. We've been spinning our wheels for the past 13 years.

When the marketing is via athletics... and you aren't getting anything outside of the state's attention... for those 13 years... until the last 3... the spinning wheels were in our own garage. We've only hit the road recently. And that is why we're catching all of the flack. Yes... Ragin Pagin has been fighting with trolls for many years... but that has nothing to do with this latest conflict. UL has not marketed our branding anywhere or anyhow until recently.

[CajunRebel]

When the marketing is via athletics... and you aren't getting anything outside of the state's attention... for those 13 years... until the last 3... the spinning wheels were in our own garage. We've only hit the road recently. And that is why we're catching all of the flack. Yes... Ragin Pagin has been fighting with trolls for many years... but that has nothing to do with this latest conflict. UL has not marketed our branding anywhere or anyhow until recently.

Yeah? So how is that going to work when all of our national exposure is on ESPN or through AP articles, both of whom refer to us as Louisiana-Lafayette? It's not working. It's not going to work. Time to come up with another plan.

[duggie85]

Yeah? So how is that going to work when all of our national exposure is on ESPN or through AP articles, both of whom refer to us as Louisiana-Lafayette? It's not working. It's not going to work. Time to come up with another plan.

Here's a start: this weekend, for the first time, we tell the biggest opposer to the name issue to Ef off bc we are using Louisiana whether they like it or not.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Here's a start: this weekend, for the first time, we tell the biggest opposer to the name issue to Ef off bc we are using Louisiana whether they like it or not.

That would be the fans, because T Joe is not going to upset Bruno.

Some testicles needed for T Joe in this matter, or maybe he was told by the powers to give it up. Either way it is time the president of UL, or UL@Lafayette make it clear. Have we caved in so easily, or are we going to fight the good fight.