[NU Sports] Next year, when we play UNL

[Joe Thiegs]

Jeff:

Unlike the Player Queen, I doth protest exactly the right amount, I think,
or maybe not enough!  :)

"New kid on the block" was intended to refer to Nebraska's new home in the
Big Ten.

The "lesser claim" comment was referring to my gripe that while "NU" is a
logical abbreviation for "Northwestern University," "NU" as an abbreviation
for "University of Nebraska" is not.  Until the Huskers change their
school's name to "Nebraska University," Northwestern should not have to
adopt an unwanted alternative abbreviation as an accommodation to that
"lesser claim."  I have no problem with both Minnesota and Michigan laying
claim to "U of M" (of course, I am partial to the Gophers in that respect,
but at least Michigan _is_ a "U of M", I'm willing to admit for purposes of
this argument) or Iowa and Illinois both as "U of I" . . . but if Iowa or
Illinois decided they wanted to start calling themselves "IU," they're free
to do so but the conference should decline to recognize it out of deference
and respect to the _real_ IU, Indiana University, regardless of the history,
strength, or weakness of the respective football programs.  It's more than
just football, in my opinion.

-Joe

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Beamsley, Jeff <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com
> wrote:

> "The most important thing is that Northwestern should not have to give
> up being referred to in its rightful abbreviated form of NU simply
> because the new kid on the block with a lesser claim has been calling
> itself that too."
>
> New kid on the block?
>
> Northwestern
> Founded 1851
> Started playing football 1876
>
> Nebraska
> founded 1869
> started playing football 1890
>
> Lesser claim?
>
> Northwestern
> conference championships - 8
> bowl record 1-7
> National Championships - 0
>
> Nebraska
> Conference championships - 46
> Bowl Record 25 -22
> National Championships - 5
>
>
> "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Queen Gertrude
>
> Jeff
>
>
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> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> On Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:46 PM
> To: SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Next year, when we play UNL
>
> Yes, but WHY do they have "CU" and "KU" in their logos?  I agree with
> Mike
> V.--it's weird.  The best guess I have is that the schools didn't want
> "UN"
> or "UC"/"UK"...yet there are other "UC"s and "UK"s out there.  The most
> important thing is that Northwestern should not have to give up being
> referred to in its rightful abbreviated form of NU simply because the
> new
> kid on the block with a lesser claim has been calling itself that too.
> I
> would hate to see expansion of the use of the bastardized form "NWU" . .
> .
> we see it too often already.
>
> Like the sign at the Wrigley Field game said:  "The real NU welcomes
> UN-L to
> the Big Ten."
>
> -Joe
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:36 AM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
> <sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > Well, to be fair, both Colorado and Kansas have "CU" and "KU" on their
> > logos (and in the Jayhawks' case, the rock-chalk chant).
> >
> > AFAIK, the Cornhusker mascot and that annoying bobble blow-up
> pseudo-mascot
> > only have big block Ns on their overalls (and stadium ... which, as
> the
> > story goes, stands for nowledge :) ).
> >
> > My guess is that we'll be "N'WESTERN" or "NWU" on ESPN while the
> Huskers
> > are "NEB" - as long as we beat them, they can call us anything they
> want. :)
> >
> > GO CATS!!!
> > -SjT
> >
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
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