Western Michigan should go as just Western. There is a northwestern university and they get away with it.I think Western University sounds good. Branding Western would be pretty simple too and your logo can just be a gold W.

(05-12-2018 10:34 AM)Carolina_Low_Country Wrote:  Western Michigan should go as just Western. There is a northwestern university and they get away with it.I think Western University sounds good. Branding Western would be pretty simple too and your logo can just be a gold W.

That ship already sailed:
https://www.westernu.edu

I don’t think that would be a roadblock

(05-12-2018 05:19 PM)GRBRONCO Wrote:  I don’t think that would be a roadblock

That’s right. Just like there’s a Loyola Marymount and a Loyola Chicago and Loyola New Orleans and Maryland, there could be a Western U California and a Western Michigan.

I do like the idea of UCM (University of Central Michigan) for CMU. Never again would there be any confusion with the other CMU, Carnegie Mellon University.

FIRE UP CHIPS! :)

(05-11-2018 01:14 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

Greatest college t-shirt in the long and storied history of college t-shirts.

Western University (WU)
Mount Pleasant University (MPU)
Annsylanti University (AU)
Northern Illinois University (NIU)
Letterman University (LU)
The University of Toledo (UT)

Ohio State University of Wood County at Bowling Green A&M (BGAM)
LeBron James (LJ)
East Cuyahoga State University (ECSU)
The Ohio River State University (ORSU)
State University of Northern New York at Buffalo (SUNNY BUFFALO)
University of Oxford (UO)

Let's look at University of (city) or (city) University

University of Akron
Bowling Green University
University at Buffalo
Kent University
Oxford University
Athens University

University of Muncie
Mt. Pleasant University
Ypsi U
DeKalb University
Toledo College
University of Kalamazoo

I was going to suggest that some of these regional universities could be named after a successful alumnus. But looking for someone worthy of Kent State being named for, out of 227,000 graduates, we ain't got no Governors or Senators or no Supreme Court Justices among them. While "Drew Carey University', 'Joe Walsh U', or 'Dolph Ziggler U' might bring in some applicants with their name recognition, they really don't really show a dignified picture for the catalog.

But then thinking further about naming the schools for people, I'm sure that would quickly get usurped by rich donors buying up the names, so I'm now thinking that's a big mistake. We'd just get stuck with names like 'Vanderbilt University', 'Stanford', or 'Duke University'.

Listen - forget the whole 'Oxford University' thing - you'd never get the recognition of the original Oxford University (that one in England). You'd just be considered 'Oxford Jr', or 'The other Oxford University', or even worse, 'Oxford University of Ohio'

(05-14-2018 02:23 PM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote:  Listen - forget the whole 'Oxford University' thing - you'd never get the recognition of the original Oxford University (that one in England). You'd just be considered 'Oxford Jr', or 'The other Oxford University', or even worse, 'Oxford University of Ohio'

But they might get the nicknames confused and end up being called “the Oxvard of the Midwest” or the”the Harvford of the Midwest”

(05-14-2018 02:21 PM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote:  I was going to suggest that some of these regional universities could be named after a successful alumnus. But looking for someone worthy of Kent State being named for, out of 227,000 graduates, we ain't got no Governors or Senators or no Supreme Court Justices among them. While "Drew Carey University', 'Joe Walsh U', or 'Dolph Ziggler U' might bring in some applicants with their name recognition, they really don't really show a dignified picture for the catalog.

But then thinking further about naming the schools for people, I'm sure that would quickly get usurped by rich donors buying up the names, so I'm now thinking that's a big mistake. We'd just get stuck with names like 'Vanderbilt University', 'Stanford', or 'Duke University'.

Funny enough Kent is already named after a person William Kent the son of the man for which the city is named after (Marvin Kent in that case). So contrary to common board belief Kent is not actually named after the city it is in though since the two are named from the same family the difference is kind of academic.

Not an alumnus but he did donate a lot of the land the University uses.

(05-11-2018 12:46 PM)inductchuck16 Wrote:  

(05-10-2018 10:09 AM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Simple for us - Oxford University.

This would be something worth looking into for the University. Whenever people hear Miami, they think of the U, except for us MAC folks. That's a huge national brand you're competing with, which is why most people refer to you as Miami OF OHIO. I feel like a switch to Oxford University could be very successful in terms of branding, plus it sounds better.

But doesn't that create another branding problem?

http://www.ox.ac.uk/

(I suppose you could always be Oxford of Ohio.)

I believe the school in Blue Chips was Western University. You could bring in Nick Nolte and 'Ricky Roe' for some good publicity.

(05-16-2018 08:11 PM)Frozenbaugh Wrote:  I believe the school in Blue Chips was Western University. You could bring in Nick Nolte and 'Ricky Roe' for some good publicity.

Then the same school for which Benson played in One On One. It is “located” in Los Angeles in both movies, so if WMU goes that route they would at least have Kalamazoo’s glamour factor over the LA version.

(05-17-2018 07:17 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(05-16-2018 08:11 PM)Frozenbaugh Wrote:  I believe the school in Blue Chips was Western University. You could bring in Nick Nolte and 'Ricky Roe' for some good publicity.

Then the same school for which Benson played in One On One. It is “located” in Los Angeles in both movies, so if WMU goes that route they would at least have Kalamazoo’s glamour factor over the LA version.

Of all the movie coaches, I think G. D. Spradlin in One-on-One, was the evilest. Classic scenes with Robby Benson going one on one with the goon.

But Annette O’Toole could be my tutor anytime...

(05-17-2018 09:02 AM)axeme Wrote:  

(05-17-2018 07:17 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(05-16-2018 08:11 PM)Frozenbaugh Wrote:  I believe the school in Blue Chips was Western University. You could bring in Nick Nolte and 'Ricky Roe' for some good publicity.

Then the same school for which Benson played in One On One. It is “located” in Los Angeles in both movies, so if WMU goes that route they would at least have Kalamazoo’s glamour factor over the LA version.

Of all the movie coaches, I think G. D. Spradlin in One-on-One, was the evilest. Classic scenes with Robby Benson going one on one with the goon.

But Annette O’Toole could be my tutor anytime...

Yeah, O’Toole was the best part. Can’t stomach dewey-eyed Benson- I was rooting for the football player to hurt him so I wouldn’t have to watch him stare goo-goo eyes at O’Toole.

Why is this a topic? Disrespectful to the universities of the conference

(05-18-2018 12:19 PM)indianasniff Wrote:  Why is this a topic? Disrespectful to the universities of the conference

I don't think it's that serious. The outside world doesn't look at these threads nor care about our alums. People in the sports world who do know of the MAC make fun of our directional Michigan's and rust belt ties. I'm numb to their attempts at hurting my feelings.

(05-18-2018 12:19 PM)indianasniff Wrote:  Why is this a topic? Disrespectful to the universities of the conference

We call this “The Off Season”.