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In the 2000 NCAA Basketball Tournament, ESPN & CBS referred to the Cajuns as The University of Louisiana, the long sought after name for the school. However, before their appearance in the 2000 College World Series, at the behest of LSU staff and administrators, ESPN discontinued the name "The University of Louisiana," and began using the longer and clumsier name of "Louisiana-Lafayette." The Cajuns were occasionally called “Lafayette,” which can be confused with the UL College "Leopards" of Easton, PA.

Since some apparently believe in full names, it is interesting to note that ESPN did not reciprocate by calling LSU by its full name, “Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge.” LSU baseball coach Turtle Thomas even publicly stated that LSU was the University of Louisiana during the 2000 CWS. As the LSU and University of Louisiana systems are separate distinct entities, this only served to confuse the situation further. Why do they care?

How the hell do they know this? Were they in on some backdoor conversation where Skip paid the commentators to say ULL?

BTW, Louisiana-Lafayette actually flows off of the tongue better IMO.

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Posted by Tigergreg

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Posted on 4/22/09 at 8:43 am to TigersRuleTheEarth

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at the behest of LSU staff and administrators, ESPN discontinued the name "The University of Louisiana," and began using the longer and clumsier name of "Louisiana-Lafayette."

This is funny. Why is "Louisiana-Lafayette" clumsier to pronounce? It's 8 syllables, where as "The University of Louisiana" is 12. They are trying so hard.

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Posted by Choupique19

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Posted on 4/22/09 at 9:10 am to TigersRuleTheEarth

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In the 2000 NCAA Basketball Tournament, ESPN & CBS referred to the Cajuns as The University of Louisiana, the long sought after name for the school.

But it is in the state legislature bylaws that they be refered to as The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Why can't they understand that? They are not better that ULM. Why not shorten your name even more then and just go by the U of Lou? That's unique, and nobody else has it. I can hear the chants now, "U of Lou, U of Lou!!!"

I've got it, why doesn't LSU tell everyone that they play to please don't call us LSU. We want to be known as "The Kings of the Universe". Please put that on the scoreboard, and make sure your radio announcers call us by our chosen name.

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