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This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
Lots of flack back and forth on this and other boards about The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and their desire to be called The University of Louisiana without the city name attached. The president of the University of Louisiana SYSTEM, Randy Moffett, made the following statement as quoted this morning in regards to the recent transfer of University of New Orleans to the U of La System. He said "The addition of UNO complements our eight REGIONAL comprehensive research universities truly making the UL System nine universities strong". So, UL Lafayette is ONE of the nine REGIONAL universities in the UL system (La Tech is in this same system). So sayeth the man in charge. These are the facts so everyone can draw their own conclusions.
12-18-2011 09:10 PM
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
(12-18-2011 09:10 PM)eager eagle Wrote:  Lots of flack back and forth on this and other boards about The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and their desire to be called The University of Louisiana without the city name attached.

1. Really? Has there been?
2. Let them call themselves whatever they so desire. Why do you care?

If they wanted to call themselves the University of King Kong at Moscow, I really wouldn't mind.
12-18-2011 09:20 PM
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Go UKKM! 03-lol
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
(12-18-2011 09:10 PM)eager eagle Wrote:  Lots of flack back and forth on this and other boards about The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and their desire to be called The University of Louisiana without the city name attached. The president of the University of Louisiana SYSTEM, Randy Moffett, made the following statement as quoted this morning in regards to the recent transfer of University of New Orleans to the U of La System. He said "The addition of UNO complements our eight REGIONAL comprehensive research universities truly making the UL System nine universities strong". So, UL Lafayette is ONE of the nine REGIONAL universities in the UL system (La Tech is in this same system). So sayeth the man in charge. These are the facts so everyone can draw their own conclusions.

It's funny how names can play a big role in attractiveness when talking expansion. For Example....Would North Texas be more attractive if the school was simply name "Dallas'? Would UNC-Charlotte be more attractive if the name was simply "Charlotte"?

So what is the general consensus?....does people expect them to drop the "Laffayette" and simply go "Louisiana"? Can they do that? Will they do that?
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
Many of us already refer to ULL as Louisiana.
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
(12-18-2011 09:10 PM)eager eagle Wrote:  Lots of flack back and forth on this and other boards about The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and their desire to be called The University of Louisiana without the city name attached. The president of the University of Louisiana SYSTEM, Randy Moffett, made the following statement as quoted this morning in regards to the recent transfer of University of New Orleans to the U of La System. He said "The addition of UNO complements our eight REGIONAL comprehensive research universities truly making the UL System nine universities strong". So, UL Lafayette is ONE of the nine REGIONAL universities in the UL system (La Tech is in this same system). So sayeth the man in charge. These are the facts so everyone can draw their own conclusions.

I don't know why the people in Lafayette are bothered so by the name ULL. If it bothers them so much, why in heck did they agree to be OFFICIALLY NAMED the University of Louisiana at Lafayette? I mean, get real. UTEP has the name of the city in which they are located as part of their name and nobody has a problem with it. The same thing is true of UCLA. And Cincinnati. And having Boise as part of its name hasn't seemed to hurt BSU any. They all seem fine with the names that they chose to be called. It has been 20 years or more since ULL changed its name from USL to ULL. If they were going to become known as Louisiana, it would have happened by now. To everybody outside of Lafayette, Louisiana, they are UL-Lafayette. What is so bad about that?
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(12-18-2011 09:30 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  
(12-18-2011 09:10 PM)eager eagle Wrote:  Lots of flack back and forth on this and other boards about The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and their desire to be called The University of Louisiana without the city name attached. The president of the University of Louisiana SYSTEM, Randy Moffett, made the following statement as quoted this morning in regards to the recent transfer of University of New Orleans to the U of La System. He said "The addition of UNO complements our eight REGIONAL comprehensive research universities truly making the UL System nine universities strong". So, UL Lafayette is ONE of the nine REGIONAL universities in the UL system (La Tech is in this same system). So sayeth the man in charge. These are the facts so everyone can draw their own conclusions.

It's funny how names can play a big role in attractiveness when talking expansion. For Example....Would North Texas be more attractive if the school was simply name "Dallas'? Would UNC-Charlotte be more attractive if the name was simply "Charlotte"?

So what is the general consensus?....does people expect them to drop the "Laffayette" and simply go "Louisiana"? Can they do that? Will they do that?

UNC-C has adopted the name Charlotte to represent their university and is displayed in all their athletic gear, field logo's, etc... and I do think they are more attractive as "Charlotte"... same goes for Memphis, Cinci, etc.
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
UT-Austin, UN-Lincoln, UNC-Chapel Hill etc are in the same situation - but got "dibs" on the shortened version...
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I'll say this, their fans are very passionate about the subject.
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And their fans are wrong. Unlike Observer, not all Tulanians have roll'd over to give up a piece of our history. The title of University of Louisiana belongs to Tulane. Just like LSU tries to steal our NOLA culture, ULL tries to steal our Louisiana name rights 03-wink 05-stirthepot
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
There already is a real University of Louisiana, and yall know it pretty well. Tulane was originally University of Louisiana from 1847–1884
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Actually, it is my understanding that LSU has a hand in making sure there is no University of Louisiana.
In reference to the UNC-XXX comments. As part of the greater University system of North Carolina, NCSU and ECU have an advantage having a separate name, even though they are technically UNC-xx. Some other schools want to be better known as Charlotte instead of UNC-C, and Wilmington instead of UNC-W in order to better separate themselves from those a--ho--s in Chapel Hill. And I Can't really blame them.
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(12-18-2011 09:37 PM)Observer Wrote:  Many of us already refer to ULL as Louisiana.

(12-18-2011 09:39 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  To everybody outside of Lafayette, Louisiana, they are UL-Lafayette. What is so bad about that?

To the contrary, many of us refer to that school as U-La-La. Sort of a Cajun Shangrila!
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I am so happy my Trojans dont share this delimma. we have an extremely marketable name. TROY. and no other University holds sway over us.
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(12-18-2011 10:01 PM)Burn the Horse Wrote:  I am so happy my Trojans dont share this delimma. we have an extremely marketable name. TROY. and no other University holds sway over us.

Love that market ya'll have. 04-cheers

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(12-18-2011 09:57 PM)RiceDoc Wrote:  
(12-18-2011 09:37 PM)Observer Wrote:  Many of us already refer to ULL as Louisiana.

(12-18-2011 09:39 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  To everybody outside of Lafayette, Louisiana, they are UL-Lafayette. What is so bad about that?

To the contrary, many of us refer to that school as U-La-La. Sort of a Cajun Shangrila!

I've always been slightly jealous that they can refer to themselves as OO-LA-LA...

Much cooler than what you can do with UH. (But as the MOB likes to remind us, you can't spell DUH without UH!) :)
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haters gonna hate OF. 02-13-banana

hard to argue though, "Troy" is a very catchy and marketable brand name.
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(12-18-2011 09:30 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  Would North Texas be more attractive if the school was simply name "Denton'?

FIFY.

UNT is located 41 miles from downtown Dallas. The University of Akron doesn't say it's in Cleveland.
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Geez, I am old I guess. I remember playing them when they were Southwestern Louisiana.
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RE: This should settle the ULL or U of La matter
(12-18-2011 09:53 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  And their fans are wrong. Unlike Observer, not all Tulanians have roll'd over to give up a piece of our history. The title of University of Louisiana belongs to Tulane. Just like LSU tries to steal our NOLA culture, ULL tries to steal our Louisiana name rights 03-wink 05-stirthepot

So why doesn't Tulane go by the name U of L? Seems like a much more marketable name if you ask me.
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