


Titan Jim wrote:OK, I posted this as a joke. You guys need to lighten up.
Titan Jim wrote:OK, I posted this as a joke. You guys need to lighten up.
NC Titan wrote:Yeah, let's beat this dead horse some more.
ptctitan wrote:Good one Commissioner.
tacitus - as an older alumnus, I get angry when someone tells me, "Sorry to hear that your college closed." Because they see Detroit Mercy in the sports scores.
ptctitan wrote:The formal name of the university should remain University of Detroit Mercy.
When our teams play, they should use the name "Detroit." Not only is this the 100+ year old heritage of the institution at the main campus location where Mercy chose to relocate, but also it avoids confusion among those many people who do not live in metro Detroit area and are unfamiliar with the merger. A lot of those people think "Detroit Mercy" refers to the Mercy university located in Detroit instead of a combined entity consisting of the former University of Detroit and the former Mercy College of Detroit. The obstinate insistence to add Mercy to the athletic teams' names without a hyphen creates at least as much misinformation as the re-branding effort sought to correct.
I realize that the experts sought to rebrand the school name in the same way that Loyola of LA and Marymount were rebranded as Loyola Marymount and LMU after their merger. But Loyola is not the name of the city in which the university is located. Thus, the name itself, when seen in a sports section, does not cause other people to think that Marymount played Gonzaga and that Loyola has ceased to exist. If the smart people involved in this naming mess cannot see this issue, then, at least, insert a hyphen between Detroit and Mercy so that less people unfamiliar with the school do not continue to mistake the school as the Mercy university located in Detroit.
This is no different than the State of Rhode Island being called Rhode Island even though its formal name is the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
DetroitBASKETBALL wrote:ptctitan wrote:Good one Commissioner.
tacitus - as an older alumnus, I get angry when someone tells me, "Sorry to hear that your college closed." Because they see Detroit Mercy in the sports scores.
There will always be confusion Missouri State University, Montana State University, Michigan State University, Mississipi State University, Moscow State University.
MSU doesn't support athletics (Moscow State University)
MSU lost to South Dakota State last year in football ( Montana State University)
Yeah we are only one with naming issues, every school has issues, we just have a much bigger hurdle to overcome and if enough people continue to refer to us as UofD maybe we will go back, or maybe in some distant future not many alums from UofD and Mercy College are around and students call us UDM, Detroit Mercy or something else and the school has some opportunity to change that or keep the branding. At the end of the day it would be a slap in the face to the administrators and alums that graduated from Mercy College to wipe away their history, because the merger negotiations indicated it was supposed to be an equal institution supported both by Sisters of Mercy and Jesuits.
titanmike wrote:DetroitBASKETBALL wrote:ptctitan wrote:Good one Commissioner.
tacitus - as an older alumnus, I get angry when someone tells me, "Sorry to hear that your college closed." Because they see Detroit Mercy in the sports scores.
There will always be confusion Missouri State University, Montana State University, Michigan State University, Mississipi State University, Moscow State University.
MSU doesn't support athletics (Moscow State University)
MSU lost to South Dakota State last year in football ( Montana State University)
Yeah we are only one with naming issues, every school has issues, we just have a much bigger hurdle to overcome and if enough people continue to refer to us as UofD maybe we will go back, or maybe in some distant future not many alums from UofD and Mercy College are around and students call us UDM, Detroit Mercy or something else and the school has some opportunity to change that or keep the branding. At the end of the day it would be a slap in the face to the administrators and alums that graduated from Mercy College to wipe away their history, because the merger negotiations indicated it was supposed to be an equal institution supported both by Sisters of Mercy and Jesuits.
Slap in the face to Detroit Mercy grads? I don't think so. Is it a slap in the face of Mercy Grads to have Detroit in the name? If I were a betting man and a poll was taken of graduates of the three schools, University of Detroit/University of Detroit Mercy, Mercy...we all know who the winner would be.
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