(08-09-2013 02:12 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  It's better than Ootsa anyway.

Only those with lisps and dainty hands call it Oootsa.
The rest pronounce it U. T. S. A.

You're talking semantics.

(08-09-2013 02:28 PM)Blue Raider Dave Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 02:22 PM)Blueraidersig Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 02:12 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  I don't know, using MT sounds so much like "Empty". You should change it to Central Tennessee or Tennessee Central. ECU also has the same problem as some refer to it as Easy U.

It's logical why no one like the directional part to their name. I used to like our old name "Texas Western College" or TWC. They could have changed it to TWU but it would be hard to pronounce so I guess UTEP will have to do. It's better than Ootsa anyway.

No. Tennessee is divided into three distinct regions defined as west, MIDDLE, and east TN.

Exactly. That's what the three stars on the state flag represent. They are called the three grand divisions.

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Central is not a term that is used by any Tennessean regarding the midstate. The only instance I can recall of the word Central being used in the name of a state institution was a hospital for the mentally insane that used to be on the location of the Dell computer assembly complex across from the Nashville airport. For a while in the middle of the last century lt was called Central State Hospital.

I keep seeing ads for this "Upper Iowa" place on TV... I think it's one of those U Phoenix type colleges. I think the "upper" part is pretty funny... who talks like that? And there is also a "Northern Iowa," if memory serves, and it's a legit state school.

(08-09-2013 06:13 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  I keep seeing ads for this "Upper Iowa" place on TV... I think it's one of those U Phoenix type colleges. I think the "upper" part is pretty funny... who talks like that? And there is also a "Northern Iowa," if memory serves, and it's a legit state school.

Upper Iowa was founded in the 1850s and has been an accredited institution from day one, and I'm guessing its name came from the fact that it's in the northern part of the state. However, imho it sold its soul to the devil by becoming primarily a correspondence/online school, although it still has an old-fashioned campus with about 1000 students.

Regarding the topic--I would go with UMT

(08-09-2013 08:03 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I didn't want to derail ECU's thread, but given that so many of you have experienced similar pains to us regarding what people call your university I thought some of you may be interested in this.

I have served as a guest columnist in the past for the Daily New Journal in Murfreesboro, but given changes that are occurring in the news business and the role new media is now playing I decided to give this write up to one of our alums that has started a new website over the past few months (includes one of our primary message boards) taking up the branding issue for the first and only piece I wrote for the new site. It's a free site and I don't get paid anything for doing it, so concious clear in sharing. At the very least it will give you some historical perspective on why we don't use "MTxx"

http://blueraiderzone.com/2013/06/27/opi...g-problem/

Why not just use..."University of Middle Tennessee"? Take the "State" name out of it?

"MT" for short.

(08-09-2013 08:35 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 08:03 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I didn't want to derail ECU's thread, but given that so many of you have experienced similar pains to us regarding what people call your university I thought some of you may be interested in this.

I have served as a guest columnist in the past for the Daily New Journal in Murfreesboro, but given changes that are occurring in the news business and the role new media is now playing I decided to give this write up to one of our alums that has started a new website over the past few months (includes one of our primary message boards) taking up the branding issue for the first and only piece I wrote for the new site. It's a free site and I don't get paid anything for doing it, so concious clear in sharing. At the very least it will give you some historical perspective on why we don't use "MTxx"

http://blueraiderzone.com/2013/06/27/opi...g-problem/

Why not just use..."University of Middle Tennessee"? Take the "State" name out of it?

"MT" for short.

That's what most of us want. the official name to be University of Middle Tennessee and then always go by MT, or Middle Tennessee.

(08-09-2013 08:43 PM)blueraider315 Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 08:35 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 08:03 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I didn't want to derail ECU's thread, but given that so many of you have experienced similar pains to us regarding what people call your university I thought some of you may be interested in this.

I have served as a guest columnist in the past for the Daily New Journal in Murfreesboro, but given changes that are occurring in the news business and the role new media is now playing I decided to give this write up to one of our alums that has started a new website over the past few months (includes one of our primary message boards) taking up the branding issue for the first and only piece I wrote for the new site. It's a free site and I don't get paid anything for doing it, so concious clear in sharing. At the very least it will give you some historical perspective on why we don't use "MTxx"

http://blueraiderzone.com/2013/06/27/opi...g-problem/

Why not just use..."University of Middle Tennessee"? Take the "State" name out of it?

"MT" for short.

That's what most of us want. the official name to be University of Middle Tennessee and then always go by MT, or Middle Tennessee.

No doubt....that makes the most sense. Have you guys tried any petition efforts? Try getting some donors on board with the idea?

(08-09-2013 09:05 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 08:43 PM)blueraider315 Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 08:35 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 08:03 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I didn't want to derail ECU's thread, but given that so many of you have experienced similar pains to us regarding what people call your university I thought some of you may be interested in this.

I have served as a guest columnist in the past for the Daily New Journal in Murfreesboro, but given changes that are occurring in the news business and the role new media is now playing I decided to give this write up to one of our alums that has started a new website over the past few months (includes one of our primary message boards) taking up the branding issue for the first and only piece I wrote for the new site. It's a free site and I don't get paid anything for doing it, so concious clear in sharing. At the very least it will give you some historical perspective on why we don't use "MTxx"

http://blueraiderzone.com/2013/06/27/opi...g-problem/

Why not just use..."University of Middle Tennessee"? Take the "State" name out of it?

"MT" for short.

That's what most of us want. the official name to be University of Middle Tennessee and then always go by MT, or Middle Tennessee.

No doubt....that makes the most sense. Have you guys tried any petition efforts? Try getting some donors on board with the idea?

haha... "why not just use University of Middle Tennessee?" he says... did you read the entire thread? If only it were that easy, other schools in the region are the issue,

Glad we don't have these problems although our sports teams narrowly avoided being known as the Boogercats. That's actually true:
http://www.herdzone.com/trads/mars-trads.html

(08-09-2013 04:18 PM)El Dirtybird Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 02:12 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  It's better than Ootsa anyway.

Only those with lisps and dainty hands call it Oootsa.
The rest pronounce it U. T. S. A.

Quit trying to use psychology it won't work. It's still Ootsa, lisps and dainty hands or not.

(08-09-2013 10:47 PM)banker Wrote:  Glad we don't have these problems although our sports teams narrowly avoided being known as the Boogercats. That's actually true:
http://www.herdzone.com/trads/mars-trads.html

Haha that probably would of been 8 year old version of me's favorite team, the boogercats.