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FIU has a new logo....THUNDERCATS!

When we play them in baseball would it be possible for our PA announcer to play this?

http://www.apparators.com/CartoonThemes/Thundercats.wav

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fledgling…

with all due respect, washington state may have called for their idea back, but kansas state called washington state and said "STOP CLAIMING ITS YOURS!!!"


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Washington state incorporated the WS into their logo… that's what I was going after.  But good call.

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Fledge…

That thundercats clip was classic.

If they do change to that logo, yes they need to play that, or the band could learn it.

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SeminOWL2006 said

Which begs the question, what would we rename FAU (if we had to)

Boca State University
Florida Atlantic State University
Atlantic State University
State University of Florida at Boca Raton
The University of Florida Atlantic

The trend is AWAY from directional (see ULL, ULM) and "state" (see Troy and what MTSU wants to do). Both USF and UCF insist on being called by their acronym and NEVER "South Florida" or "Central Florida" - nobody wants to be known as a directional school. Instead, they want to create a brand like USC (the one in California).

During the rebranding effort I suggested that we drop Florida from our name altogether and simply go by "Atlantic University". I still think it's a much better name. There is a very small school by that name with programs in "dream interpretation" and "alternative healing" - I don't think it would be an issue.

The bottom line is that you don't want a direction in your name and you don't want "state" in your name. These make you seem like (at the most) a #2 university. Today, everyone wants to appear to be the flagship (even if it's not realistic). One reason FAU and FIU are grouped together so often (e.g. ESPN's F_U) is because the names are so similar and somewhat arbitrary (they don't have a hundred years of history… we could have just as easily been known as something ridiculous such as A-OK U or Sunshine U).

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… although I do like their logo.
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IF we were to rebrand our school (which this is kind of ridiculous to talk about, because it's obviously not happening)…

Atlantic University (I agree with LM77)

remember there is a Pacific University in California

as for the whole "directional" school, "state" school" and "hyphenated" school talk.. college athletics is changing way too rapidly to worry about that, anymore, IMO

North Carolina Tarheels OFFICIAL name? University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Ohio State is 100000 times the school Ohio will EVER be

i know some schools DO try to brand themselves as the acronym, but USC has called itself USC for DECADES before that was ever an issue…

UCF, Central Florida, Mickey Mouse University, Community College of Central Florida, Orlando's Playground University - doesn't matter what you name them… their fans are pathetic no matter what

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I hope that they don't change their logo to that…That is awful.
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Many universities (Memphis, Townsend) are dropping the "State". Troy did it mostly because it serves much more of a purpose than as a regional state school and gets more of its budget from sources other than the State of Alabama. Troy even has campuses in Florida, including the Panhandle and Orlando.

Troy, around 10 years ago, considered a name change, with possibilities like Alabama International (ugh), Alabama Southern and even the University of Alabama at Troy. Thank God that last one didn't fly.

I like "Atlantic University".

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owlcountry said

SeminOWL2006 said

Ha I also just read something about how they (the athletic department mostly) had wanted to rebrand the WHOLE university to set themselves apart from the 3 letter schools. FAU, USF, UCF, FSU..

A couple of the suggestions:

Miami State University (Not that bad..except for the other two Miami schools)

State University of Florida at Miami (SUFM?, SUF@M?)


On the other hand, I do think "Miami State" is a better name than "Florida International." I wonder if FIU ever considered embracing it's Latino students and surroundings and try to become the top university for Spanish-speaking students in America. It would be a nice niche for them.


SeminOWL2006 said

Which begs the question, what would we rename FAU (if we had to)
- Boca State University
- Florida Atlantic State University
- Atlantic State University
- State University of Florida at Boca Raton
- The University of Florida Atlantic

Wow, those are all really, really bad. I know when they first founded the school, names they had considered where Boca University (which isn't necessarily bad), Sunshine State University (omg, so bad, but not as bad as…) and A-OK University (sooo glad that got shot down).

Also, you may know that at various points in the history of Florida, universities came into financial troubles and it was suggested that they become branch campuses of the University of Florida. At one point, FAU was about to become the University of Florida at Boca Raton.

I think two other schools were in a similar circumstance but obviously had fended off the change.

I think embracing the Latino population is the very reason they went for the International in Florida International in the first place. If you ever fly to South America the in-flight magazine for American Airlines always has adds for FIU claiming that they are the number one university in the U.S. in terms of MBAs granted to international students of Latino heritage. I don't see them changing their name anytime soon.

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I think Atlantic University would be the most logical bet.

I don't see why FIU is making such a push to change. I think the international makes sense for them. It isn't directional and it speaks to a broader audience.

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