(02-21-2014 02:25 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote: (02-21-2014 02:23 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote: I think that we've spent years building the UAB brand.
I also think that nothing we say about it will matter a bit.
Not sure if your being a smart azz or not, but I was just posing a question for discussion.
UNCC has seemed to make the transition to the "charlotte" nickname very well. Thought it might be interesting to see people's thoughts on doing the same for UAB.
I was saying:
1. UAB is not going to change the name of the university to University of Birmingham for any number of reasons, primarily that many years and much money have been expended on building the "UAB" brand.
2. If UAB did indeed decide to do so, the same "reporters" (haaaawk, spit) who call us Alabama-Birmingham now, despite anything we say or how we protest, will then call us UAB.
3. It's a message board, and no one who makes such decisions gives a whistle what the people on a message board say about it.
However, this is a free country. If you want to call UAB "Birmingham University" or "The University of Birmingham", go to it. However, the same people who get irritated now at Alabama-Birmingham will also be unhappy with you for it and feel that you're not calling UAB by the name that the school prefers.
And, yes, smartass is something of a default position. It's just that in this case I truly don't think it will ever happen. Good idea, bad idea, I just don't see it, and that was the primary point I was making.