2016: LA the new "official" abbreviation for stats, crawls, etc

[Ragin' Caleb]

I sent messages to the espnu twitter and two guys announcing. No response

[jllanclos]

Can't do the Geaux UL hand sign with LA.

Under current law we'll never convince anyone to us UL. In addition the various debates about meeting it technically with shadows and same color material on the Lafayette is good academic debate. That debate will never work in the real world, especially by our spineless leaders.

This gets us what we need elimination of that dreaded LL.

LA is brilliant. We should create an LA logo, wear LA on the baseball hats, start chanting Geaux L A, hashtagging #GeauxLA, and referring to the athletics as "Louisiana" in EVERY mention in EVERY conversation we have with outsiders.

If every one of us that really cared about this simply referred to the school as "Louisiana" in every mention of every conversation, it would go a long way toward ending this.

"Louisiana."
"LA."

It's clean. It's simple. It's memorable.

THAT'S marketing.

Unless it's not consistent.

I believe victory is finally at hand in this battle.

But... we are not UL.
We are LA, Louisiana, and we (fans) need to be consistent (or we deserve the ridicule).

[jllanclos]

Whuh? The Los Angeles Ragin Cajuns? What does UL-LAF,UL-L,UofL@L,Lou-laf mean to everyone? What does UT mean to most? Does that hurt Tennessee? USC?doesnt hurt South Carolina. If people can't correlate LA with Louisiana Ragin Cajuns then we can't help those idiots...LA, you know the actual abreviation of the state of Louisiana

I'm not sure what's so bad about the confusion.

Imagine someone in Minnesota seeing across their crawlers: "LA 33 GS 26."

They say, "LA? Who's that?"

I'm trying to understand the downside of someone who otherwise never notices us taking notice.

Isn't that the point of a brand?

[jllanclos]

This supposed to be retroactive to Nov. 1. Just checked the Sun Belt Conference website. We are still UL Lafayette. Maybe just not enough time yet for the website correction. I will be curious to see how other SBC teams refer to us now. I would expect (hope) that Benson will put out a News Release in that regard to conference members and to the Media. This needs major Media attention. It will also be interesting to see how newspapers in Louisiana refer to us going forward.

My understanding is that it starts with basketball. We'll find out tonight if BTN adopts it, although I believe they already refer to us as "Louisiana."

[jllanclos]

Well I for one hope we keep UL on the baseball unis and what not. I hope this (LA) is for the ticker on broadcasts and conference standings when abr's need to be used.

We can't have it both ways. We either market to differentiate ourselves, or keep "UL-ing" (and adding "Lafayette" and keep getting "UL-Lafayette'd" and "Lafayette'd."

I like UL.

I like LA more, because it differentiates us.

Put LA on the hats.

[jllanclos]

LA stands for Los Angeles to 99.9% of the people in this country. How in the world anyone thinks this will help our branding is beyond me. It'll make things even more confusing than they are today.

People are really going to think "LA 33 GS 26" means Los Angeles?

Context. We're not plastering our new designation on Travelocity.

[ZoomZoom]

I heard a few times in the background the GSU (southern, not state) PA guy call us Lafayette.

Sidenote...I saw the video. Really nice of our players to help the whole world see our new PAC on social media...

[CajunEXPRESS]

I heard a few times in the background the GSU (southern, not state) PA guy call us Lafayette.

Sidenote...I saw the video. Really nice of our players to help the whole world see our new PAC on social media...

If Trump anger motivates them. Good enough. They played really well last night.

[CajunNation]

My understanding is that it starts with basketball. We'll find out tonight if BTN adopts it, although I believe they already refer to us as "Louisiana."

A lot of these graphics packages are done before the season starts.

Everybody needs to practice patience here. We've waited this long for the university to finally get this right. We can wait a year or so to work out all of the kinks with ESPN and the SBC.

We are LOUISIANA

Forget U

[ManAboutTown]

A lot of these graphics packages are done before the season starts.

Everybody needs to practice patience here. We've waited this long for the university to finally get this right. We can wait a year or so to work out all of the kinks with ESPN and the SBC.

We are LOUISIANA

Forget U

This. Thank you.