re: There is NO school named Louisiana that plays NCAA football

Of all the chronic LSU fan melts, this one is by far the most bizarre.

“Louisiana” is good marketing. Like it or not. It’s working.

“Ragin’ Cajuns” is the stupid part. A little bit of trying too hard/trying to be cute. Cringeworthy. Just call yourself the Cajuns and be done with it.

OMG, so triggered.

I don't care about this issue at all or if it's "legal" or not. But I have some comments about branding. For years after ULL and ULM rebranded themselves as "Louisiana" and "ULM", ESPN still referred to them as "Louisiana-Lafayette" and Louisiana-Monroe". I thought it odd that they didn't demand that ESPN switch to their desired branding. I just checked again, and I'm surprised to see that they got it half "right":



I'm surprised because ULM has done a great job of consistently branding themselves as ULM on their web site and uniforms, but ESPN still doesn't have it right. ULL has not done as good a job at branding as ULM, but having ESPN on their side now I'm sure helps a lot.

For an example of a very successful re-branding, I completely forgot that Nevada used to be Nevada-Reno until 2012 when Nevada came to play Cal, Jeff Tedford kept referring to them as "Reno". Long before his current stint at FSU, Tedford played and coached at FSU, so UNR has always been "Reno" to him, but no one calls them Reno or Nevada-Reno anymore.

For an example of a failed attempt at rebranding, I remember back when Jim Leavitt was still the coach at USF, a reporter referred to them as "South Florida" and Leavitt asked that they be called "USF". That was the first I knew that they were trying to rebrand themselves. But they've done a terrible job. If you look at their athletic site, they don't even put their team name at the top, and you see a football uniform with "South Florida" on it, but scroll down and you'll see other uniforms that say "USF" on it. Then you scroll down to the very bottom and you see a "USF" using the bull-horns logo. That logo should be at the top of the page. So bizarre.

This whole thing just makes LSU fans seem so petty. Ohio State isn't threatened by Ohio, UC-Los Angeles doesn't care that UC-Berkeley gets to brand itself as "Cal".

Except that we graduated an entire graduating class as University of Louisiana.

I think this thread needs to be bumped. Someone, somewhere, MUST do something about this. It is imperative.

I need to know.

Did you graduate from LSU or another La university? Are you from the Lafayette area? Like seriously why does UL bother you so bad? I’m a die hard LSU fan and they get my full support. UL academics and athletics do not effect that what so ever. You should be glad Louisiana has other good schools than just LSU. It’s so fricking stupid that people think like you.

Compare another state similar in size to La. do you think people that went to Auburn or UA shite on Troy and South Alabama? The answer would be no. Normal fricking people are proud of their state and are happy when other schools have success. People like y’all give LSU fans a bad rep. Yes LSU fans have a very bad rep.

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Compare another state similar in size to La. do you think people that went to Auburn or UA shite on Troy and South Alabama? The answer would be no. Normal fricking people are proud of their state and are happy when other schools have success. People like y’all give LSU fans a bad rep. Yes LSU fans have a very bad rep.

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Maybe that’s why higher ed in this state is close to dead last in the nation. If “fans” would put this much effort into saving LSU’s financial struggles, we would be in a better place. But the problem is that people here don’t care about important things like I don’t know......quality of education and academic prestige. They give their money to causes that fund billboards in other states about a football player.

Who gives a shite? Outside of the state of Louisiana, no one thinks highly of any of your colleges other than Tulane.