(03-18-2015 06:33 PM)CatMom Wrote: (03-18-2015 04:24 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote: (03-18-2015 02:19 AM)eagleskins Wrote: How would one that attends Incarnate Word explain to others what college he is attending?
The whole name of the school is The University of Incarnate Word
And Texas is The University of Texas at Austin. Don't hear them going by that a lot, do you?
They just go by Incarnate Word
Kind of like we just go by Louisiana or UL in South Louisiana especially. Students, faculty, newspapers, alumni, TV media, and fans all refer to it as that in the Acadiana (Lafayette Metro Area) area.
Louisiana-Lafayette doesn't bother me except that they have a Lafayette college and announcers start calling us Lafayette or they'll have the Lafayette Leopard logo on the scoreboard and you never hear anyone call it that down in Southern Louisiana.
I actually recieved a University of Louisiana degree in 1984 until LSU and buddies had a law passed and we had to change our name back to Southwestern Louisiana and I was reissued my degree with that name. We were the only university that was officially the University of Louisiana, at least for a few months.
If anyone is interested in the history of our name and the Louisiana politics that passed the LSU RULE which dictated our official name today, the following link is really interesting and maybe people wouldn't get so upset when we as fans, not anything official, refer to ourselves as UL or Louisiana. I mainly use Cajuns because people have a stroke if you say Louisiana. LSU knew what they were doing and the trouble it would cause when they passed officially known as the LSU Rule
http://www.angelfire.com/la3/ulragincajuns/battle.html
The fans, media are free to call them Louisiana if they wish, like Texas, Nevada, Arkansas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, etc.
BTW, the Lafayette Leopards are in the NCAA Tournament
