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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby SMU1523 » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:00 pm

I remember reading somewhere that USC, prefers USC, SC, and Southern California. They frown upon the use of Southern Cal. Lou Holtz never got the memo because he continues to call them Southern Cal and has for years.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby Grant Carter » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:21 pm

SMU1523 wrote:I remember reading somewhere that USC, prefers USC, SC, and Southern California. They frown upon the use of Southern Cal. Lou Holtz never got the memo because he continues to call them Southern Cal and has for years.

Or maybe he did get the memo...
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby SoCal_Pony » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:11 am

SMU2007 wrote:If people are getting confused between us and a tiny catholic school in San antonio, a Canadian university or Singapore management university when we are discussing D1 sports, we have bigger problems.


Very funny & so true.

BTW, you can also include Shanghai Maritime University in the discussion.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby hoopmanx » Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:49 am

Like or not, St Marys calls themselves SMU, and lots of people call Southern Miss, SMU too.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby ponyinNC » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:06 am

I always felt like the espn bottom line would explode when SMU played USM.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby LA_Mustang » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:11 am

I'd like to see SMU host a tournament with the following first round game - So. Miss vs. Saint Mary's U.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby DiamondM75 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:38 am

To end all confusion it is now:


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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby The PonyGrad » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:50 am

hoopmanx wrote:Like or not, St Marys calls themselves SMU, and lots of people call Southern Miss, SMU too.

Actually So. Miss is USM and only called SMU by those that don't know. That is one of the reasons I liked when we went to CUSA, that maybe that perception would be corrected.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby pwnyxpress » Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:59 pm

Once we win the NCAA tournament there will be no more confusion.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby untitled » Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:29 pm

hoopmanx wrote:Like or not, St Marys calls themselves SMU, and lots of people call Southern Miss, SMU too.

Which St. Mary's are you referring to? CalallenStang is right - St. Mary's University in San Antonio uses StMU on all of their gear, while St. Mary's in California is "St. Mary's College," so it wouldn't make sense for them to use SMU as an acronym.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby hoopmanx » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:38 am

Twitter calls smc and usm, smu. Happens more than you would think. .
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby 82Pony » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:00 am

Then there's the SMU Thurston Howell, III attended....

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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby Tx_Mustang10 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:20 pm

gostangs wrote:we are SMU. Nobody else owns that. We need to insist - and every single time they put southern meth or southern methodist our SID needs to send a pointed email with the request/demand that they go with SMU.

someone needs to have this as their job - and we need to wear them out.

I still email the people on the Yahoo! Sportstacular app every couple weeks because they call our basketball team's shortname "SM." Way worse than any of the other situations being described, imo. But I guess, SID, while you're at it, maybe you can pick this one up. Most recently they said they'll fix it during the offseason, but for something that takes 2 mins to fix, they sure have been pushing it off.
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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby malonish » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:30 pm

82Pony wrote:Then there's the SMU Thurston Howell, III attended....

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According to IMDB:
The character of the Professor was supposedly a graduate from SMU, TCU and UCLA, Thurston Howell III went to Harvard. Howell would call an inferior a "Yale Man".

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http://www.gilligansisle.com/thurston.html

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Re: SID: SMU branding - SMU, not Southern Methodist

Postby BigT3x » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:38 pm

Drives me CRAZY when I see us called "Southern Methodist". Makes us sound like some rural divinity school. The SMU administration really needs to eliminate the disjointed branding and standardize on SMU.
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