(10-18-2014 09:13 PM)Cscollis Wrote:  When was the change from USL? I guess since no one could find Lafayette on the map, you decided you need the whole state to be relevant. USL is a much better name than Ulala.

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The whole state would claim Lafayette before that **** hole called Ruston.

Good luck to all here...I am sorry to say that I am done with the fan forum.......

(10-18-2014 07:00 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 06:58 PM)RamblinRedWolf44 Wrote:  http://www.raginpagin.com/louisiana/show...k-St-Board


"They can be our ally in getting out of the Sun Belt together. They really need to re-think our relationship."


"The state folks are ___pi zz_ed that we get way more pub than they do. Way more. I don't care."


"Most of the ASU fans were cool with calling us UL. It just seems in the last year or two since they got the Butthurt about us going to New Orleans rather than them that they turned."


"Oh why oh why do we have to be stuck in the Sun Belt?"



Cajuns are just something else

It's the latech complex. Mostly bothers Louisiana teams.

As compared to the Monrovian Complex? What about us.....what about us....what about us, we are good too!

Monroe, meet your kissing cousins the Screaming Squaws!

(10-18-2014 09:04 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  You being branded as Louisiana would be a benefit to the conference and the rest of us. Your fans sometimes make it really, really, hard to want to though.

And your fans constant whining every time UL is mentioned by media without mention of Arkansas State is getting old! Some of your fans suffer from serious Monrovian complex.

(10-18-2014 10:23 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 09:04 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  You being branded as Louisiana would be a benefit to the conference and the rest of us. Your fans sometimes make it really, really, hard to want to though.

And your fans constant whining every time UL is mentioned by media without mention of Arkansas State is getting old! Some of your fans suffer from serious Monrovian complex.

See what I mean?

(10-18-2014 10:14 PM)swampbear Wrote:  Good luck to all here...I am sorry to say that I am done with the fan forum.......

What an entitlement mentality!

3 winning seasons and some butts in the seats for a change and you're too good for the SBC and need to be called UL even though your official name is UL-Lafayette? Your program has been a dumpster fire for decades. Congrats on being relevant for at least 40% of one decade.

Be proud you've built the program up from where it was, have local and alumni support and appear to be stable. The SBC is just as good a place as any for your program because it will NEVER be a P5.

We are all specks on a gnat's butt in the big picture of college football, especially in SEC territory. Win your conference and punch Big Boy in the mouth from time to time - same formula for MAC, CUSA, AAC, and MW.

I've never fully understood why it makes the UL(L) fans so mad. Haven't been associated with the conference long enough to know the history I guess. What's so bad about Louisiana-Lafayette?

Sam Houston State fans called us Texas State-San Marcos (which was our official name until a couple years ago) because they didn't approve of our name change when it happened. Difference is there were no other Texas State-(city name)'s in the state. We were always the only Texas State.

Why do the Cajun fans consider ULL so derogatory?

At least people don't call you by your old name, like TXST gets SWT all the time (even though the name change was over a decade ago), or reference a 20+ year old movie thinking they're being original and funny.

(10-18-2014 10:17 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  As compared to the Monrovian Complex? What about us.....what about us....what about us, we are good too!

Monroe, meet your kissing cousins the Screaming Squaws!

Is that supposed to bother me or something?

(10-18-2014 10:33 PM)CatMom Wrote:  At least people don't call you by your old name, like TXST gets SWT all the time (even though the name change was over a decade ago), or reference a 20+ year old movie thinking they're being original and funny.

The movie reference is annoying. I frankly don't mind being called SWT. I don't find it insulting.

(10-18-2014 10:27 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:23 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 09:04 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  You being branded as Louisiana would be a benefit to the conference and the rest of us. Your fans sometimes make it really, really, hard to want to though.

And your fans constant whining every time UL is mentioned by media without mention of Arkansas State is getting old! Some of your fans suffer from serious Monrovian complex.

See what I mean?

If you mean calling a spade, a spade? Yes, I see what you mean. And I've also gotten a real good dose of what the definition of the best fans in belt means. Read enough post on the ASU board this week to know playing nice here doesn't disguise the idiocy on your own board. Of course RamblinRedwolve showed his douchness in clear sight. Good luck after Tuesday night!

(10-18-2014 10:39 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:27 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:23 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 09:04 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  You being branded as Louisiana would be a benefit to the conference and the rest of us. Your fans sometimes make it really, really, hard to want to though.

And your fans constant whining every time UL is mentioned by media without mention of Arkansas State is getting old! Some of your fans suffer from serious Monrovian complex.

See what I mean?

If you mean calling a spade, a spade? Yes, I see what you mean. And I've also gotten a real good dose of what the definition of the best fans in belt means. Read enough post on the ASU board this week to know playing nice here doesn't disguise the idiocy on your own board. Of course RamblinRedwolve showed his douchness in clear sight. Good luck after Tuesday night!

Some of those threads were not started by stAte fans. We've had a big influx of pig trolls of late. They get summoned every time we make fun of their SEC losing streak (Its 16 now!!)

A friend, who is a uga fan asked me who was in our conference. I started naming schools and after reading this board I mentioned Louisiana. He looked at me like a deer in headlights. I then said Louisiana layfayette, and he said oh the Cajuns. Like it or not, it's who you are to most of the college football world.

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(10-18-2014 10:39 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:27 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:23 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 09:04 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  You being branded as Louisiana would be a benefit to the conference and the rest of us. Your fans sometimes make it really, really, hard to want to though.

And your fans constant whining every time UL is mentioned by media without mention of Arkansas State is getting old! Some of your fans suffer from serious Monrovian complex.

See what I mean?

If you mean calling a spade, a spade? Yes, I see what you mean. And I've also gotten a real good dose of what the definition of the best fans in belt means. Read enough post on the ASU board this week to know playing nice here doesn't disguise the idiocy on your own board. Of course RamblinRedwolve showed his douchness in clear sight. Good luck after Tuesday night!

Regardless of what happens Tuesday night, I won't be going through life as a bitter raw nerve constantly looking to take offense.

(10-18-2014 10:47 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  A friend, who is a uga fan asked me who was in our conference. I started naming schools and after reading this board I mentioned Louisiana. He looked at me like a deer in headlights. I then said Louisiana layfayette, and he said oh the Cajuns. Like it or not, it's who you are to most of the college football world.

I've experienced this too. I try to do my part in using Louisiana, but when I tell e.g. my dad that we're playing Louisiana this weekend, I don't think it registers like Louisiana-Lafayette does. I also feel like I've heard announcers refer to "Lafayette" as much as I've heard "Louisiana." I'm not saying it's fair, and I know it's not the brand that's being sought, but it's still the state of things.

I guess I'd understand the anger more if I were in the position of Cajun fans and saw folks using the "wrong" terms just to get under my skin, but I bet there's no ill intent most of the time.

Yeah had the same exact thing today. Was talking to my college roommate who doesn't really follow the Texas State program. He asked about other schools in the conference. When I said Louisiana he said "who"? I said Louisiana-Lafayette and he said "oh yeah".

On a national level people don't know who "Louisiana" is.

(10-18-2014 10:57 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:47 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  A friend, who is a uga fan asked me who was in our conference. I started naming schools and after reading this board I mentioned Louisiana. He looked at me like a deer in headlights. I then said Louisiana layfayette, and he said oh the Cajuns. Like it or not, it's who you are to most of the college football world.

I've experienced this too. I try to do my part in using Louisiana, but when I tell e.g. my dad that we're playing Louisiana this weekend, I don't think it registers like Louisiana-Lafayette does. I also feel like I've heard announcers refer to "Lafayette" as much as I've heard "Louisiana." I'm not saying it's fair, and I know it's not the brand that's being sought, but it's still the state of things.

I guess I'd understand the anger more if I were in the position of Cajun fans and saw folks using the "wrong" terms just to get under my skin, but I bet there's no ill intent most of the time.

This is fundamentally a Louisiana issue. It won't be solved until it is solved in Louisiana. At some point "ULL" and "ULM" need to figure out that it needs to be solved because it is holding both back, and then get a solution implemented.

Frankly, they would be better off as "University of Louisiana" and "University of Monroe" or "ULM" and "Acadiana". Being hyphenated helps neither.

It really doesn't matter if they are in a conference with LaTech, ULM, or Tulane it will be the same unless it is solved in Louisiana first.

Jumping on other fan bases until that point is counter-productive and makes them WANT to use it to get them riled up.

If you want to know the whole history of the battle for a name.

http://www.angelfire.com/la3/ulragincajuns/battle.html

If you read this you will understand.

(10-18-2014 10:27 PM)Eagles Cliff Wrote:  

(10-18-2014 10:14 PM)swampbear Wrote:  Good luck to all here...I am sorry to say that I am done with the fan forum.......

What an entitlement mentality!

3 winning seasons and some butts in the seats for a change and you're too good for the SBC and need to be called UL even though your official name is UL-Lafayette? Your program has been a dumpster fire for decades. Congrats on being relevant for at least 40% of one decade.

Be proud you've built the program up from where it was, have local and alumni support and appear to be stable. The SBC is just as good a place as any for your program because it will NEVER be a P5.

We are all specks on a gnat's butt in the big picture of college football, especially in SEC territory. Win your conference and punch Big Boy in the mouth from time to time - same formula for MAC, CUSA, AAC, and MW.

Our name was changed to University of Louisiana in 84 or 85. Then after the law was passed that only the State Legislators had the power to change a Schools name and not the Board of Trustees which was the process other schools changed their names such as UNO. After they made us change our name back like 3 months after the name was changed, we had to change our name back to USL. We were UL officially for a few months.

Officially the University's name is University of Louisiana at Lafayette annd that name is used on all official correspondence, but in sports the fans or media can call us what they want such as the Texas Longhorns are officially University of Texas at Austin. And the same with other schools such as Nebraska, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Tennessee, etc.

And you are free to call us ULL, ULALA, LA LAF, LAFAYETTE. I really don't care. In at least the Acadiana area, all students refer to the University as UL or Louisiana whether they are a sports fan or not. That's just the name it's known as at least in south Louisiana.

Don't you think it would be better to say you beat Louisiana instead of ULL or Louisiana-Lafayette. You are free to say it. Up here in Boise, they say they beat Louisiana, they aren't afraid of the LSU police. At our game against Boise, so many of their fans asked me if I was an LSU fan, I'd say nope and thry would respond, good.

(10-18-2014 09:30 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  ULL fans need to go cry to the Memphis State fans. It's not that we don't respect you....we know it pisses you off. When it stops getting y'all riled up, there will not be a point to it.

Hey listen to this guy. He gets it too.