(12-26-2018 01:27 PM)billymac Wrote:  Whenever I see this thread come up, I have to chuckle a bit about the way things come all the way around.

It wasn't that long ago (okay, 30-35 years) that people wanted to actually change the school's name to William & Mary University. The reason given was that too many people thought we were a "college", which meant we were a D-III type school or a small school, that wasn't equal to full universities, like Duke University, the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, etc. They thought perspective students and student-athletes wouldn't want to come to a lower level "college".

Obviously, as SF stated, we were the first University in the country (it's right there in the 12 Firsts of the College of William & Mary - #7 on the list, I believe), in 1779. (Take that, Harvard College...). It's part of the list of things incoming Freshmen had to memorize, back in the day, during Duc Week (Induction Week - an event that included the wearing of funny little hats (I still have my Duc Cap), now lost to the annals of history and legend). If we didn't need to learn these key items till Week 1, then I guess today's incoming athletes will still have time to get their titles straight, especially the ones coming from half a continent away...

As usual, people with cooler heads, shot down that WMU line of thought very quickly (if you are the only school in the country with an official Coat-of-Arms, you don't change the name that's on it), and all is still right with the world. So, I imagine that The College will survive a couple mis-tweets from future grads.

Of course, if we would just win a dang NCAA basketball tournament game...

I know there's screenshots on a thread here somewhere, but we were on television, and the abbreviation used on the score was WMU, among other things. They finally got it right, but it changed to various incorrect things over the course of the first 5-10 minutes of gametime.