re: For some reason, USL people are angry...

Despite what some SLI/USL/ULL folks on here want you to believe, the hate coming out of Lafayette, is a very vocal minority, but it’s not limited to strictly a hatred of all things LSU, it’s a hatred of all things Baton Rouge as well.

As for their wanting to be called “The University of Louisiana”, it actually goes back to the the early 1980’s when a certain USL Alum who then served in the state senate introduced legislation to officially change to the one that the continue to covet, The University of Louisiana.

While the legend over in Lafayette is that the mean old LSU alums killed the bill, I can tell you, because I was there, that it was killed in the Senate Education Committee by a contingent of folks on behalf of other non-LSU state schools, led by La Tech & UNO in particular, because of the fear that the name change could lead to favored financial treatment TJ the Lafayette school if it were allowed.

As far as the hate of LSU, having spent about 5 years in Lafayette, I can say that there are a group of folks that would cheer for BAMA, the Taliban, or Satan himself of any were playing LSU. There is a similar minded group at La. Tech. In both instances, they constantly claim the ULL/LaTech is the instate rival of LSU and that they compete for n recruiting for the same players.

Is it short man’s syndrome? I neither know, nor care, but it’s real.

A close friend and native of Lafayette who is a 3rd generation LSU alum, has the best response to these folks. He had a separate set of his business card printed up that, on the front are normal, but on the reverse lists the total number of USL losses to LSU without a victory, the average score of each team, greatest margin of victory and a few other undeniable truths. He keeps them handy whenever one of the aforementioned ULL folks becomes annoying…


GEAUX TIGERS!!!