(01-11-2019 05:46 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  I wonder what they’ll ultimately do about the name. It looked like that was going to be resolved when they were set to be incorporated into the Utah system as UofU-St George. But that fell through.

I think some of the old-timers have no issue with the “Dixie” name, but St George is increasingly made up of transplants who find the name as confusing as the first people who posted on this thread. The population growth in the area will ultimately support a legitimization of the school that for a long time has been viewed as a glorified JC, party school (by comparison) with a weird name. I have to think that upward mobility will come with a rebranding at some point.

Southern Utah is taken already. St. George State? - Weber State started as Weber Stake Academy, Dixie State started as St. George Stake Academy.

Weber is the named in turn after the county, but since St. George is in Washington County, that wouldn't work.