(04-22-2017 11:09 AM)johnintx Wrote: Good idea. I was there last year, and most of the signs simply said "Indiana University". I didn't make it to the part of the campus where the Purdue engineering programs reside, but most of the campus belongs to IU. There is also an IU law school there.
There have to be some political considerations with Purdue people in the state legislature, but it makes sense to let it simply be "IU-I".
But didn't they just get to have the whole Fort Wayne campus called just Purdue? Isn't that their consideration? The Fort Wayne campus was administered by Purdue. The Indy campus is administered by IU.
I think it's completely fair.
(04-22-2017 02:08 PM)Chuck_A Wrote: The problem with that name is that Indianapolis has a good Division II school with the name University of Indianapolis or UIndy for short. They'd run into a tough little problem if Indiana were to do that.
Well, first of all, the official name Indiana University - Indianapolis is perfectly fine. That there is a University of Indianapolis would be irrelevant, for that.
For IU Indy's athletic brand just being "Indianapolis" ... I also think that's just fine, and fair too. UIndy might complain, but they're just a small private college. The public flagship should get preference. IMO
(04-22-2017 11:06 PM)gosports1 Wrote: ok. I knew I read it somewhere
It's unfortunate that I have to say this ... but basically any time you read something about the Summit written by NoDak, you should immediately be suspicious of it, unless he posts a link confirming it.
He likes to make s___ up.
As you thought, Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Wayne, as well as other schools like Milkwaukee, sometimes simply use the name of the city as their athletics brand. This is proven by pics of the basketball uniforms:
I would suspect that Purdue FW will continue to go by "Fort Wayne" for athletics brand.
Also, NDSU has
never used just "Fargo" as an athletics brand. Never has, and never will. Nor will the U of North Dakota ever use "Grand Forks" as an athletics brand.
No idea why he likes to make crap like that up. It's too bad.
(04-23-2017 04:59 AM)BruceMcF Wrote: They were founded in 1820, and putting "University" at the end did not "differentiate" them from either Ohio University or Miami University, both founded a decade or so earlier.
Many of the schools you may be imagining they were "differentiating" themselves from did not yet exist.
Oh, so they were trying to copy Ohio U and Miami U, as opposed to the University of Michigan, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania?
No. Nice try.