2014 Branding Fiasco: UL-Lafayette or UL-L (SBC Reference Guide)

[CajunRebel]

My email to our fearless leader:

Mr. Doc Jo(k)e -T Savoie,
Did I call you by the wrong name? I apologize. Let me begin by voicing my displeasure for your recent actions. I am beyond upset with your decision to give up on something, we the supporters of this sinking University, have fought for two decades. We were finally making strides towards achieving the name we have been fighting for. CBS, Fox Sports, and many other news outlets were beginning to recognize us as Louisiana. Now all hope is lost. We can continue to fight for our name, which I will do, however we now have an uphill battle. By your cowardly decision to keep the competition happy, you have thrown your own supporters under the bus. Everyone who has been fighting us on the name dispute will mock and laugh at us because YOU were a coward. I demand an explanation. If there were powers over your head to forced you to make this call, I want names. Until you retract your white flag, I will no longer financially support this University. I will go so far as to hold protests on your lawn, Martin Hall. I will voice my displeasure to all who will listen and lobby for all to remove their financial contributions. I hope you begin to realize the impact of your decision will be detrimental to the success of the University you are attempting to "lead" and nothing good will come of your milquetoast actions. You wanted peace? Now you have war. Good luck fixing the one doc, you will need it.

Once Proud Alum

I've always found that sending highly insulting emails to people will always win them over to your way of thinking. Nice job.

[CajunAmos]

Do ya'll realize that T-Joe works for the UL system and can be fired for not following system policy? Do ya'll also realize that LaTech, ULM and McNeese despise UL and think that ya'll are cheating the law with this "Louisiana" bs? and that UL does not control the votes on the UL system board or the Board of Regents?

Maybe the rest of the universities in the system pressured the conference and the board to rein in UL's use of "Louisiana"? ever think that maybe more people don't want ya'll to have that name than do?

That would be typical of Louisiana politics and the backward parts of the state. The common thought would be "If we hold other people down it will make us look better". The lowest common denominator.

By the way, most state's don't have to legislate a "Flagship" university, they do it by the success of their academic programs with equal funding per student.

[DannyP]

The goal is to solidify ourselves as THE UL, I don't really care what comes out of the mouths of purple and gold lovers. They and some others within the state will never recognize us as such. We should carry big sticks, keep them close, and kill them with kindness. Do all we can to accomplish our goals (win friends) outside of hostile territory. Certainly conference affiliation can play a huge role in helping us do this, and the SBC ain't it.

If the issue here was how an athletic conference should abbreviate its member sports teams... Why didn't we (& why don't we now) just do that? Academically we are The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Athletically we ARE The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns!
One of these would have sufficed:
TLRC
LRC
LARC
LRC!
If they would have done this:
1) The uproar from us wouldn't have been nearly as "loud".
2) The "I told you so's" would have been fewer and farther between.
3) Fox sports, CBS and others that we're going with the flow would have continued doing so. (And if we're lucky, this may still happen.)

[Alum78]

He does not want to go against the law(legislation) that was passed.

[Damon]

He does not want to go against the law(legislation) that was passed.

lol, ain't a law bubba. Spin your troll roulette wheel again.

[Hammer58]

LOL. This isn't T-boy. He likes to post under my name every now and then. Whenever he ends the post with "Go Cajuns!," then you'll know it's him.

Well, be sure he sees my question. Just have a paramedic standing by. LOL!

[Turbine]

Case in point, at no time in ancient Louisiana history did anyone ever call the former University of Louisiana a flagship university.

To hang there hat on this fear of stature claim today reveals more than they know.

To your point, it is far too late to touch that issue. Good lawyers in 1984 would have pounced on that conflict of interest and made it front and center.

Fact is this was an un-loseable case, that was lost.

[LSUalum0515]

Of course we know all of that, but the question remains, why does any other school give a fukc what we call ourselves?

Well as an LSU fan you guys appear to be the pesky little brother nipping at our heals annoying us.

The other schools hate ya'll because ya'll treat them like you claim LSU treats ya'll.

[LSUalum0515]

nothing illegal with the use of Louisiana. and why is everyone worried about that law...plenty of other laws in the state being broken that do a lot more harm to society. you would think people would chose to fight against the real "crime" than this stupid name thing...geez

I think you better read the text of the act addressing the name, it specifically says no athletic use of University of Louisiana.

[SlappyCajun]

I think you better read the text of the act addressing the name, it specifically says no athletic use of University of Louisiana.

Exactly!