(12-22-2012 11:14 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  

(12-22-2012 01:29 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  why do UL's commercials keep saying "University of Louisiana AT Lafayette"? I thought they were the flaship.

Check out the major school official names:

University of Texas at Austin - Texas
University of California Berkeley - Cal
University of Nebraska Lincoln - Nebraska
University of Wisconsin Madison - Wisconsin
University of Nevada at Reno - Nevada
Etc., etc.

Our official name is The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. We have branded ourselves as LOUISIANA.

You failed to mention an important fact. All the schools you just listed are flagship universities of their state. The University of Louisiana System has no flagship University. Therefore, when advertising, your school has to use its only correct name "University of Louisiana-Lafayette." However, your athletic program has been granted permission to label itself as just "University of Lousiana" and can advertise under that name for athletics only. The other Universities you mentioned can use either name for academics or athletics.