Oh, for Pete's sake. A big reason for keeping some of these teams (I.e. wbb, wvb, golf) has a great deal to do with Title IX compliance. There really is no choice.

(05-09-2018 01:46 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  THE University-of Toledo pays a nice homage to our Egyptian forebearers.

I'm puzzled. What Egyptian forebearers does Toledo have?

(05-08-2018 10:49 AM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  Would love to see them become Illinois Tech (sort of taken)

It's not "sort of taken". It is taken.

Miami got legitimately screwed in perpetuity by the Florida school and frankly should’ve sued them. Changing to Oxford would help them so much.

Rest of MAC is fine. Ohio, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo the best followed by Ball/Kent/Bowling Green. Nothing wrong with directionals.

I always thought we could go back to being Michigan State Normal School. But we'd lose the Block E. And as you can tell, I kinda like the block E.

(07-21-2018 06:48 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  Miami got legitimately screwed in perpetuity by the Florida school and frankly should’ve sued them. Changing to Oxford would help them so much.

Rest of MAC is fine. Ohio, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo the best followed by Ball/Kent/Bowling Green. Nothing wrong with directionals.

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'

(07-23-2018 12:28 PM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote:  

(07-21-2018 06:48 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  Miami got legitimately screwed in perpetuity by the Florida school and frankly should’ve sued them. Changing to Oxford would help them so much.

Rest of MAC is fine. Ohio, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo the best followed by Ball/Kent/Bowling Green. Nothing wrong with directionals.

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'

I prefer "Miami State."

(07-20-2018 12:08 PM)OUVan Wrote:  

(05-08-2018 10:49 AM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  Would love to see them become Illinois Tech (sort of taken)

It's not "sort of taken". It is taken.

Thanks for the clarification. Impressive, insightful...

(07-23-2018 10:11 AM)Block_E Wrote:  I always thought we could go back to being Michigan State Normal School. But we'd lose the Block E. And as you can tell, I kinda like the block E.

And of course, Michigan State Abnormal School is in East Lansing.

(07-18-2018 12:53 PM)DexterEagle Wrote:  

(05-09-2018 01:46 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  THE University-of Toledo pays a nice homage to our Egyptian forebearers.

I'm puzzled. What Egyptian forebearers does Toledo have?

I assume he's going by the acronym TUT. At least, I'm not familiar with an Egyptian named TUOT.

(07-25-2018 04:06 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(07-18-2018 12:53 PM)DexterEagle Wrote:  

(05-09-2018 01:46 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  THE University-of Toledo pays a nice homage to our Egyptian forebearers.

I'm puzzled. What Egyptian forebearers does Toledo have?

I assume he's going by the acronym TUT. At least, I'm not familiar with an Egyptian named TUOT.

He gave his life for tourism...

(07-26-2018 08:20 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(07-25-2018 04:06 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(07-18-2018 12:53 PM)DexterEagle Wrote:  

(05-09-2018 01:46 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  THE University-of Toledo pays a nice homage to our Egyptian forebearers.

I'm puzzled. What Egyptian forebearers does Toledo have?

I assume he's going by the acronym TUT. At least, I'm not familiar with an Egyptian named TUOT.

He gave his life for tourism...

Pretty nice of him. I guess that's why he's so popular.

(07-26-2018 08:20 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(07-25-2018 04:06 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(07-18-2018 12:53 PM)DexterEagle Wrote:  

(05-09-2018 01:46 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  THE University-of Toledo pays a nice homage to our Egyptian forebearers.

I'm puzzled. What Egyptian forebearers does Toledo have?

I assume he's going by the acronym TUT. At least, I'm not familiar with an Egyptian named TUOT.

He gave his life for tourism...

That just went over too many head....

How about this:

U of Akron (students & faculty seem to like it)
Kent University (everyone should know by now it's a state university and not a private school)
Bowling Green University (see Kent)
University of Oxford (that keeps it separate from the UK one, unless that is the UK one. Then Oxford University)
Ohio (see Akron)
Illinois Tech University (rather than IIT, which looks a little weird, I took a page out of Texas Tech's & Louisiana Tech's book instead of GIT's-Georgia Institute of Technology, MIT's-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, & OIT's-Oregon Institute of Technology)
U of Toledo (see Akron)
UWM (a little different. More prestigious directional universities use U of direction rather than direction U)
Ypsilanti University (it's been mentioned in this thread, and I like it!! It helps to distinguish the Eagles!!)
UCM (see UWM)
Ball University (maybe??)

(07-30-2018 02:38 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  <snip>
University of Oxford (that keeps it separate from the UK one, unless that is the UK one. Then Oxford University)
<snip>
UWM (a little different. More prestigious directional universities use U of direction rather than direction U)
<snip>
Ball University (maybe??)

Howabout Going with Western University of Michigan? WUM? And if you call it 'Ball University', LaVar Ball will say you named it after him.

Also - if you can't remember if it's Oxford University or University of Oxford, no one else will either, the same way no one outside of Ohio knows which school is Miami University and which is University of Miami. You're solving one problem by creating an identical problem. Maybe try Miami State University? Or maybe University of Southwest Ohio? Or maybe University of Northern Cincinnati? Benjamin Harrison University?

(07-30-2018 07:11 AM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote:  

(07-30-2018 02:38 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  <snip>
University of Oxford (that keeps it separate from the UK one, unless that is the UK one. Then Oxford University)
<snip>
UWM (a little different. More prestigious directional universities use U of direction rather than direction U)
<snip>
Ball University (maybe??)

Howabout Going with Western University of Michigan? WUM? And if you call it 'Ball University', LaVar Ball will say you named it after him.

Also - if you can't remember if it's Oxford University or University of Oxford, no one else will either, the same way no one outside of Ohio knows which school is Miami University and which is University of Miami. You're solving one problem by creating an identical problem. Maybe try Miami State University? Or maybe University of Southwest Ohio? Or maybe University of Northern Cincinnati? Benjamin Harrison University?

U Hipster@Oxford Ohio

There is nothing wrong with Miami University. They already have a very good academic brand and reputation.

For NIU I still like Sean T. Frazier University.

And another thing....

...With Miami University and the whole NCAA ban on Indian names being used as team names, maybe the North Dakota Fighting Sioux should have been inspired by Miami - they could change the school name to 'Fighting Sioux University'

(07-31-2018 06:36 AM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote:  And another thing....

...With Miami University and the whole NCAA ban on Indian names being used as team names, maybe the North Dakota Fighting Sioux should have been inspired by Miami - they could change the school name to 'Fighting Sioux University'

Or the Huron University Eagles.