(11-07-2013 09:00 AM)10thMountain Wrote:  South Florida is fine. Simply because its a distinct region of the country pretty much everyone is familiar with (similar to southern california). If they dont want to change their name, they really dont have to.



ECU is more problematic.

North Carolina Tech would be best but they aren't a Technical school at all.

"Greenville" (the equivalent of Auburn or Clemson) still sounds like a small town and therefore small time.

Perhaps the route would be to go like Rutgers or Purdue and choose an important person in the school's history like a president or major donor that made the school possible.

East Carolina will always sound like a small time directional school ala Eastern Illinois or Eastern Michigan and be a hindrance to their ambitions.

The irony, of course, is that USF isn't actually located in South Florida at all. Tampa is very much Central Florida (geographically, culturally, etc.). South Florida is Miami up to the Palm Beach area on the Atlantic and then Naples/Marco up to Sarasota on the Gulf (plus the Keys).