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We rebranded from Texas Western to UTEP 50 years ago. Now a days I don’t think that going as El Paso will help us. It will most likely damage us even further. We have a bad reputation as a city. Most of it is media generated that tries to portray El Paso as some illegal immigration sanctuary lawless city where cartel members run around decapitating innocents. We just need to win.

My early guess is that the Texas schools wouldn't be allowed to rebrand by UTAustin.

(01-04-2018 09:06 PM)MTowho Wrote:  How many people on this board refer to Charlotte as UNCC?

I do

(01-04-2018 09:33 PM)Niner National Wrote:  Charlotte has a more unfortunate abbreviation than most schools. Our abbreviation ends in CC, which can make it seem like a community college to those that don't know UNC Charlotte.

Upper Nebraska Community College.
Sounds Legit!

(01-05-2018 09:26 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 10:18 PM)monarx Wrote:  I think "Charlotte" is a better name, but UNCC is easier to type on message boards, and was their preferred name for decades. Old habits die hard. I still call them UNCC sometimes, but mean no disrespect by it.

Yeah, but lots of others simply use UNCC cause they know it aggravates Charlotte fans.

This should be your goal. Taunting from other fan bases means that you are relevant to them (and perhaps even feared by them). Our own personal example: Empty Sue.

'Til that happens, you are just Charlotte to me.

(01-05-2018 10:33 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(01-05-2018 09:26 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 10:18 PM)monarx Wrote:  I think "Charlotte" is a better name, but UNCC is easier to type on message boards, and was their preferred name for decades. Old habits die hard. I still call them UNCC sometimes, but mean no disrespect by it.

Yeah, but lots of others simply use UNCC cause they know it aggravates Charlotte fans.

This should be your goal. Taunting from other fan bases means that you are relevant to them (and perhaps even feared by them). Our own personal example: Empty Sue.

'Til that happens, you are just Charlotte to me.

I doesn't help that athletics goes by Charlotte yet the University goes by that other name. Our current chancellor loves Chapel Hill so he won't even begin to think about changing the name. I have a feeling a total name change will be our next crusade once we have a new chancellor in place.

The Trustees won't allow. They would rather us go by Alabama - Birmingham. That's why we did the only two correct versions are The University of Alabama at Birmingham or UAB hoping most would just use UAB.

When Coach Hasse went back to using Birmingham jerseys it caused quite an uproar and there was a falling out with our new dumb*** AD about it. This was push back from the Trustees I'm told.

We would love to separate and be BU but until then UAB is fine. We will also continue to piss off the Trustees and use Birmingham when we can.

Rice should rebrand as Quinoa.

(01-04-2018 10:19 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  So long as we can call the UTEP/ODU game “The Battle of Old - El Paso” then I’m in.

Haha that’s a good one. Almost as good as the name we adapted for our rivalry with you guys. The “RICE and beans bowl.”

(01-04-2018 10:51 PM)Blue_Trombone Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 09:33 PM)Niner National Wrote:  Charlotte has a more unfortunate abbreviation than most schools. Our abbreviation ends in CC, which can make it seem like a community college to those that don't know UNC Charlotte.

Well, that's why the hyphen is in UNC-C right?

Actually we dropped the hyphen in 1976. My freshman year (77-78) they gave out bumper stickers that said "I lost my hyphen at UNCC". Gotta love college humor.

UAB should just go by Birmingham...love these unis

(01-05-2018 12:45 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 10:51 PM)Blue_Trombone Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 09:33 PM)Niner National Wrote:  Charlotte has a more unfortunate abbreviation than most schools. Our abbreviation ends in CC, which can make it seem like a community college to those that don't know UNC Charlotte.

Well, that's why the hyphen is in UNC-C right?

Actually we dropped the hyphen in 1976. My freshman year (77-78) they gave out bumper stickers that said "I lost my hyphen at UNCC". Gotta love college humor.

I remember covering Metro basketball when I worked at the VCU student paper. The UNC Charlotte media guide and gameday notes always included a rather detailed explanation of why we shouldn't use a hyphen for them. As far as I remember, I complied, because you should be allowed to be called whatever you want, but plenty of media outlets still hyphenated (the Associated Press had N.C.-Charlotte as first reference in its stylebook for the longest time).

(01-05-2018 12:48 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  UAB should just go by Birmingham...love these unis

simplify to The 'Ham......I'm with ya on this one....the reference jokes would write themselves in branding....

I always call them UNCC just due to back in the Sun Belt days in late 80's that is the name they went by....

clt says we also go by uncc-charlotte

personally i think old dominions brand is fine, shame about the trucking company and the ****** band though...

i think our problem is that we don't actually have a marketing department, at least not one that has any sort of wit about it

Heck, let's all change our names. I vote Old Dominion restores our given name, "The Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary." It just flows off the tongue....

(01-05-2018 01:40 PM)Maryland Monarch Wrote:  Heck, let's all change our names. I vote Old Dominion restores our given name, "The Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary." It just flows off the tongue....

Snappier than "The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art".