re: Official Insecure-U vs tFlagship Smack Talk Thread

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Hopefully this weekend we can finally give you those 2 L's you've always been asking for.

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I honestly would prefer that the university stays out of the minds of the LSU redneck trash.

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t's a double-edged sword. I remember last year when a Tiger fan starting a thread on the rant complaining that we were #1 in the polls in baseball. I mean, seriously? You have six national titles to our zero. Can we just enjoy our moment without that type nonsense?

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I can only assume that the 'flagship' title was given to itself by LSU, since I have never been able to find where in the legislature the designation was given or even better, 'earned'.

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An intriguing story can be found in the Bayou State. Louisiana is a state that much like Ohio, is dominated in the public eye by the premiere state university. Louisiana State University might have just as much political favor as they do fan favor. In 1984, University of Southwestern Louisiana, changed their name to the University of Louisiana with the blessing of the then Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities (now The University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors). As the largest school in the UL system, the name change made sense to most, but it did not hold up. Shortly after the name change was processed, The Louisiana Board of Regents filed suit with the Board of Trustees. Twenty-five days later, District Judge William H. Brown stripped the University of Louisiana name and forced them back to the University of Southwestern Louisiana name. The suit also removed the ability for future name changes by the Board of Trustees.

In order for any future name changes to take place, it meant compromise. And the only compromise to the seemingly impossible blockade by the Louisiana Board of Regents came in the form of Act 45. This compromise has been called the LSU Rule as it would force schools such as University of Southwestern Louisiana and Northeast Louisiana University to agree to put LSU on a virtual pedestal within the state of Louisiana. ACT 45 required that at least two state universities change their name at the same time and that all universities who change their name change it to University of Louisiana at [city designation]. It stipulated that the city designation must be used in all official university business and has since grown far beyond its original legislative language, to regulate minute details such as font sizes to be used by the respective universities. Additionally, the bill insisted that LSU was, and would remain, the flagship university of Louisiana. This was a strange legislative act with little tie-in to LSU or the LSU System. The act also changed the name of the Board of Trustees to the University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors.

In 1999, fifteen years after the first attempt at a name change, University of Southwestern Louisiana became the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and Northeast Louisiana University became University of Louisiana-Monroe. While the change was not entirely what USL was looking for, it did allow them to finally drop the directional school label. - See more at: https://collegesportsinfo.com/2007/11/30/university-name-changes-and-the-marketing-impact/#sthash.33NXOJVu.dpuf

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