re: Curious, when did USL start copying the "Geaux" term for their sports teams?

It's actually dumb no matter who uses it.

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Curious, when did USL start copying the "Geaux" term for their sports teams?

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That has been around since at least the 1970's. My family was very involved in the "booster club" back then and it was used during that time.

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Because they are The University of Louisiana?

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at Lafayette

Petty thread.

USL.
Always will be.
What's so shameful about Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana?
Other than "LittleBrotherism"?

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Because they are The University of Louisiana?

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You may need to brush up on the history of University of Louisiana.

The university was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana[1] in 1834 partly as a response to the fears of smallpox, yellow fever, and cholera in the United States.[16] The university became only the second medical school in the South, and the 15th in the United States at the time. In 1847, the state legislature established the school as the University of Louisiana,[1] a public university, and the law department was added to the university. Subsequently, in 1851, the university established its first academic department. The first president chosen for the new university was Francis Lister Hawks, an Episcopal priest and prominent citizen of New Orleans at the time.

The university was closed from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. After reopening, it went through a period of financial challenges because of an extended agricultural depression in the South which affected the nation's economy. Paul Tulane, owner of a prospering dry goods and clothing business, donated extensive real estate within New Orleans for the support of education. This donation led to the establishment of a Tulane Educational Fund (TEF), whose board of administrators sought to support the University of Louisiana instead of establishing a new university. In response, through the influence of former Confederate general Randall Lee Gibson, the Louisiana state legislature transferred control of the University of Louisiana to the administrators of the TEF in 1884.[1] This act created the Tulane University of Louisiana.[17] The university was privatized, and is one of only a few American universities to be converted from a state public institution to a private one.[18]

They forfeited that name when they took Paul Tulane's money and became private.
There is now a University of Louisiana system in which Tulane is not a member.
The school in Lafayette is branded athletically as Louisiana. There is nothing illegal about this, and is accepted on a national scale. This will become more engrained as the years pass, so losers in this state can call the school whatever they want. Who cares? The battle is won, the war is over. Geaux LOUISIANA Ragin Cajuns!!

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So Death Valley is a rip off ?

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It's not a rip off by the way, but it wasn't actually called that. Some idiots in journalism kept effing up "Deaf Valley" in the papers so LSU switched it to "Death Valley", which I personally think is stupid. Should have kept the names as Deaf Valley and the Deaf Dome.

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I wish that we’d have kept USL. That way people would quit acting like queers about a name.

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People get annoyed because they are trying to falsely claim they are a flagship. They aren't and their name is UL-L. No shame in that, but they are trying to force some false narrative to feel better about themselves.