re: ESPN botches ULL's logo again- pic

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Isn't that what we've been trying to do?

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No.

Look...I'm actually a USL alumnus, so I do have some small stake in this argument. But the university has had a BAD look about this, and this misconception is one of them. While they say that they use University of Louisiana at Lafayette as the official name of the university, what you see here in this sign outside Blackham is their grand frick YOU to that in reality. Oh...Lafayette is on there, it's just in tiny thin black lettering so as not to be easily read. It's the equivalent of the really sped of legaleze at the end of some car commercial on the radio that no one can fricking hear but is there to fulfill some legal bs. This official logo is damn near everywhere.



I won't even go into the trashy look outside the gates to campus on Johnston St where students kicked off the Lafayette letters underneath the LOUISIANA on the curbs YEARS ago leaving nothing but holes where the letters were. University's response? Leave it like that!

Lastly, when was the last time you heard or saw a member of the local media call UL Lafayette that instead of UL? I'm not talking sports teams, I mean the university? Almost never happens... As someone that knows a bunch of local media people due to my work, I've been told on many occasions it's because they have been pressured into calling them that.

My point is, no...in reality my alma mater has no real intention of going by both names and it continually thumbs it's nose at whatever agreement they made to do so. I will always have graduated from The University of Southwestern Louisiana and will be proud of having done so...but this bitching about the name was embarrassing when it started and it's become even more boring as they've continued to try and massage the agreement. The result is the type of bullshite confusion and faux confusion you get out of ESPN.

While LSU can be seem as having been petty about this within the state, outside of it the only ones that look bad are the guys who can't seem to figure out what their name is...and for a school that's sole purpose for having done this was image, that doesn't seem like the best continued course of action.