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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 15, 2018 21:24:25 GMT -6
North Alabama would probably be better. Have you ever googled UNA football? About a thousand foreign language items about soccer (obviously) pops up. Of course googling North Alabama football gets a lot of Crimson Tide articles.
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Post by tuna85 on Jul 16, 2018 5:29:19 GMT -6
North Alabama would probably be better. Have you ever googled UNA football? About a thousand foreign language items about soccer (obviously) pops up. Of course googling North Alabama football gets a lot of Crimson Tide articles. I have and you are right.
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Post by unafied on Jul 16, 2018 6:10:48 GMT -6
North Alabama would probably be better. Have you ever googled UNA football? About a thousand foreign language items about soccer (obviously) pops up. Of course googling North Alabama football gets a lot of Crimson Tide articles. I have and you are right. I think I commented somewhere on another thread, but it feels like they are pushing "North Alabama" more on the social media stuff. (I really hate the term "social media". Get off my lawn, and whatnot.) They also replaced the UNA logo on the basketball floor with the "North Alabama" version like in your avatar. It's probably a good idea to go with the full name for at least a few years. I'd say the majority of fans barely know much about the teams in their own conference, let alone teams from other divisions. A lot of D1 fans will have no idea who UNA is. So make it "North Alabama" for more formal purposes, but at a local level we can keep it UNA.
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Post by brandon on Jul 16, 2018 8:56:04 GMT -6
I kinda like the North Alabama logo for one reason, even up to the P5 or A5, whatever, seems like everyone and their dead cat has the UNA style logo. Just a few examples
TCU WCU UNI
There are several more, but I really like original stuff.
At least nobody can have the North Alabama logo but us.
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Post by unafan on Jul 16, 2018 11:10:07 GMT -6
I think they are pushing "North Alabama" due to the move to D-1. That is fine. It's who we are. Us old timers will still say UNA in passing conversation. Hell, I still hear older folks call us Florence State still to this day.
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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 16, 2018 11:22:35 GMT -6
I called us FSU a lot when we started getting all those transfers from Florida State. I was one of the ones who hated the name change. North Alabama and UNA didn't roll off the tongue like Florence State and FSU. But my ole man and "Uncle Bob" were right.
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Post by unafied on Jul 16, 2018 11:42:39 GMT -6
I called us FSU a lot when we started getting all those transfers from Florida State. I was one of the ones who hated the name change. North Alabama and UNA didn't roll off the tongue like Florence State and FSU. But my ole man and "Uncle Bob" were right. It's interesting to hear that perspective. I've always liked "UNA", especially since there's no other university I'm aware of with those initials. UNA is all I've ever known, so even "North Alabama" sounds a little strange to my ear. I always feel like it comes from people who aren't from the Shoals or Alabama, because growing up I simply did not hear "North Alabama". I think as someone who never knew "Florence State" is easier to say it was a good change to make. Being from Florence, I wonder if I would have had that attachment to FSU when the change was made.
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Post by tuna85 on Jul 16, 2018 13:27:42 GMT -6
North Alabama will work and it's a great identifier. Makes it easy to know where to find us and helps to unite fans in the region. 'Sides pretty sure when we get in a tight game the cheer, that will go up to push on the team, will be UNA UNA. Short and sweet!
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Post by northalaspectator on Jul 16, 2018 14:37:15 GMT -6
It is North Alabama, not University of UNA.
UNA is just an nickname or colloquial term that is used in an informal setting. A sports event would be classified as informal so the cheer “UNA” would be OK at an sporting event.
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Post by brandon on Jul 16, 2018 16:12:12 GMT -6
It is North Alabama, not University of UNA. UNA is just an nickname or colloquial term that is used in an informal setting. A sports event would be classified as informal so the cheer “UNA” would be OK at an sporting event. Right, Nobody talks about North Carolina and says (predominately) UNC. But, when anyone talks about Central Florida or South Florida its almost always UCF or USF. It don't matter, we will always be UNA, and North Alabama. Either way, nobody will confuse us with anyone else. Look at poor JSU, unless you are us or them, people think they are from Florida. There are so many City with the name of Florence, it would be frustrating telling everyone we are from Alabama all the time. (They would hate it, but I wouldn't mind JSU changing to Eastern Alabama University.)
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Post by ladigahills on Jul 17, 2018 4:51:46 GMT -6
Back in the 90’s rumor was out there about changing the name to East Alabama. I think this was when livingston changed to West Alabama. In the early 90’s another rumor was putting all universities/college’s in auburn system or alabama system.
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Post by tuna85 on Jul 17, 2018 17:29:07 GMT -6
Back in the 90’s rumor was out there about changing the name to East Alabama. I think this was when livingston changed to West Alabama. In the early 90’s another rumor was putting all universities/college’s in auburn system or alabama system. I remember that second rumor. Not sure if it was rumor or not as it made the paper in the Huntsville area at the time. This was before yeller journalism and fake news became so prevalent. Basically the schools which were strong in Engineering and Ag would go to Auburn whilst those strong in Law, Education, and Medicine would go to Alabama. I reckon those of us which were Business students would have been divided up based on the strengths above. Local area schools would have gone as follows: UNA and Athens College - Alabama UAH and Alabama A&M - Auburn All of this was being discussed around the time frame when Alabama A&M and others went to court over how funding for the state's Public Universities/Colleges was being disbursed.
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Post by brandon on Jul 18, 2018 6:24:32 GMT -6
To court over funding, what so the administration at the time could pocket even more money and not put it into the school? Lots of people at A&M should have went to prison from that era.
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Post by tuna85 on Jul 18, 2018 7:43:58 GMT -6
To court over funding, what so the administration at the time could pocket even more money and not put it into the school? Lots of people at A&M should have went to prison from that era. That era and others. This will sound familiar, the argument was over inequitable funding for A&M versus Auburn, Troy, and other similar engineering/tech institutions in the state. A&M essentially won the case and the building program has been extensive and continues. Kitts is on target to look at where UNA stacks in state funding to other 4 year institutions in the state. Getting UAB'd takes many forms and not just in the athletic arena. It will take tremendous effort to get a fair share of the much fought over pie.
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Post by unafied on Jul 18, 2018 10:38:10 GMT -6
I wonder how serious the proposal was to merge the smaller 4-years into either the UA or AU systems? I have no idea, but it sounds like some politician thought he could score some points by proposing it. If something like that had been on the table back before, say, 1970, maybe it could've happened. But there's no way (IMO) it was possible to do it in the 90s, nor probably anytime in the near future.
The state funding we receive is definitely an issue. I'm pretty sure we are usually near the bottom, probably fighting UWA for whatever we get. Maybe things will turn around on that front moving forward.
Now, talking about politicians interfering, but I once read either on the D2 board or somewhere else that we had plans for a med school that got shot down back 30+ years ago. Maybe not plans per se, but at least some thoughts were thrown around. Apparently the state wouldn't let it happen? Who knows. I have no idea if the state really needs another med school or not, but when you look at where the current two are, they pretty well cover south and central Alabama. We already have a good reputation with our nursing college, sure would be nice if we could have north Alabama's med school. I've probably said it since plans were first discussed for a new hospital, but UNA taking over the ECM campus would be too perfect. It's probably a pipe dream, but I do wonder if anybody at the University has at least thought about the possibility.
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