ULL pushing University of La.?

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university of "ohio

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No such animal. Ohio University is the closest thing.

Why does everyone keep starting these threads? It doesn't matter what UL-L calls themselves. They are not LSU, they play in the Sunbelt, they are mediocre at best in every major sport.

LSU has nothing to worry about concerning their "flagship" status.

And as far as UL-L people dying to call themselves "UL". Stop! Stop asking people, organizations, other schools, etc.... to give you titles that you feel you are owed!

Just go win freaking games, earn respect and who gives a shite what you are called, JUST BE A WINNER INBETWEEN THE LINES AND IN THE CLASSROMM!!!

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university of "ohio




No such animal. Ohio University is the closest thing.

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ok. let's try the university of pennsylvania and penn st.

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does the university of "ohio" get more credibiltiy than the "ohio STATE university"?

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Like La, they are one of the exceptions to the rule.

Most states, the "state" university is the inferior to the "University of," and isn't the flagship.

Because they can never be a flagship hub of their own system, much less a state, they want to placate themselves by just being called one by "standard" convention I guess.

You are what you are. Changing your name doesn't change a thing. You cant polish a turd with a name change.(Yes I did see myth busters.)

Meh, I am mostly against it because they don't deserve it.

If they can fight they way to even get into LSU's academic and especially research categories I probably won't mind it as much.

But they don't really have anything to make them worthy of a name bigger than a regional school.

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Uhh, Penn is a thousand million billion times more prestigious than Penn State

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Yeah, I forgot to mention that aspect of it as well.

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Just go win freaking games, earn respect and who gives a shite what you are called, JUST BE A WINNER INBETWEEN THE LINES AND IN THE CLASSROMM!!!

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Here inlies the problem for USL. They can't do either so they instead try to boost their egos with the UL designation. I really did not know or care much about UL-L until Tiger Droppings, but seeing and hearing what they do in order to raise their self esteem is just sad. Burning LSU shirts in a bonfire. Professors making students take of LSU caps in class... Its all quite ridiculous what lengths they go to...

What about the University of Louisiana-Monroe? Don't they have every bit the same right to be called "University of Louisiana" or "UL" as their counterpart in Lafayette???