Widely Confused Acronyms in FCS

[UAalum72]

We had a fan of the University of California Davis flip his lid about the whole UCD, UC-D, UC-Davis, UC Davis, Cal Davis... thing. To this day I still can't recall which one is preferred by them. A sure fire way to make sure people use the wrong one is go off on somebody about using the wrong one.

BTW, I usually use Cali-D.

I know UC-Davis was OK with him and Cal-Davis wasn't, but I'm not sure about the rest.

I forgot Townson for the Misspelled list.

[Herky]

PSU is Portland State as long as you are on campus. Anywhere else in the BCS and Pac-10 happy Portland, PSU is Penn State.

I get confused when it comes to Sacramento State, which is why during my prediction threads, you see me spell it out as "Sac State" (I use the acronyms of the other schools and will spell out those non conference opponents, FBS and FCS). I've been told in the past that Sacramento State does not go by "SSU" as that is reserved in California for Sonoma State, and also does not use the "CSUS" as the school rarely goes by the name of Cal State University-Sacramento.

There is no acronym appropriate for Sac State, CSUS and SSU are never used. The only appropriate way to type the schools name when referencing it is either Sac State, Sacramento State, or California State University, Sacramento.

Sac State has a very strict policy on how it's name appears, the university should never ever be referenced using any acronym.

I believe it was two or three years ago that Sac State tried to change it's official name to "Sacramento State University," however many professors and students didnt want the name change. They saw it as separating the university from the CSU, they also viewed as comercialization of a public university. Other CSU's such as SSU and SJSU are looking to change their names back to California State University, (insert city/county).

Below is a link to the university's style guide, it provides information on the proper way to references Sac State. Page 6 directly corresponds to this post and can answer any of your questions.

http://www.csus.edu/pa/identity/docs/Sa ... F05Fv1.pdf

[Herky]

We had a fan of the University of California Davis flip his lid about the whole UCD, UC-D, UC-Davis, UC Davis, Cal Davis... thing. To this day I still can't recall which one is preferred by them. A sure fire way to make sure people use the wrong one is go off on somebody about using the wrong one.

BTW, I usually use Cali-D.

I know UC-Davis was OK with him and Cal-Davis wasn't, but I'm not sure about the rest.

I forgot Townson for the Misspelled list.

They prefer to be called "the manure pile" or "UC Dungpile."

[clenz]

I actually think the accepted nomenclature is ILS and INS, even tho our fanbase throws a giant hissy over it.

According to the MVFC media guide (at least the 2009 edition):

• ISU or ILS -- Illinois State is the principal identifier for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at Illinois State University. ISU is the preferred abbreviation, however, ILS is used to differentiate from league member Indiana State (which also uses ISU).
• ISU or INS -- ISU is the preferred abbreviation for Indiana State University, however, INS is used to differentiate from league member Illinois State (which also uses ISU).
• Missouri State -- The institution’s official name “Missouri State University” is a reality as of Aug. 28, 2005. Missouri State will work in the first reference in a news story, and MSU is an acceptable abbreviation in subsequent references and statistical listings. SMS, Southwest Missouri State and versions of SW Missouri should no longer be used.
• NDSU or ND State -- NDSU is the primary abbreviation for North Dakota State University, while ND State has been used for tickers, scoreboards and television broadcasts.
• UNI -- It’s University of Northern Iowa on first mention, UNI thereafter. Please do not refer to UNI at any time as Northern Iowa, and it’s not NIU, which is commonly seen. We thank you for your consideration.
• SDSU -- SDSU is the primary abbreviation for South Dakota State. South Dakota State is the preferred abbreviation on the second reference.
• SIU -- SIU is the preferred abbreviation, however, SIUC is also used (differentiating it from SIUE, which is the abbreviation for the Edwardsville campus).
• W. Illinois -- The Western Illinois Department of Athletics prefers that Western Illinois be used in references to athletics programs. When an abbreviation is necessary, W. Illinois is preferred. WIU is not acceptable.
• YSU -- YSU is a suitable and preferred abbreviation for Youngstown State University in news stories and broadcasts.

I was surprised to see that "WIU is not acceptable" considering how much the school itself uses it. But then UNI sometimes uses "Northern Iowa" itself too. so who knows.

UNI is really picky about our name. Like was said it is Northern Iowa the first time, then UNI. However, that is only for articles about the school I believe. If the school is referring to itself then it is to be Northern Iowa...I think. When it comes to Jerseys and logos the panther head can't be used without UNI or Northern Iowa above it and the jerseys must say Northern Iowa...not UNI. I think there are some other rules too.

[CSUBUCDAD]

CSU
Charleston Southern University
Colorado State University
Connecticut State University

[JayJ79]

UNI is really picky about our name. Like was said it is Northern Iowa the first time, then UNI.

No, it is University of Northern Iowa the first time. Evidently they don't want to ever be referred to as just "Northern Iowa", even if that is what it says on their uniforms.

[UAalum72]

CSU
Charleston Southern University
Colorado State University
Connecticut State University

There is no "Connecticut State University" except for the system. Campuses are Central Connecticut State(FCS), Southern Connecticut State (Div. II), Western Connecticut State (Div. III) and Eastern Connecticut State (Div. III - no football). None are related to the University of Connecticut.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

CSU
Charleston Southern University
Colorado State University
Connecticut State University

There is no "Connecticut State University" except for the system. Campuses are Central Connecticut State(FCS), Southern Connecticut State (Div. II), Western Connecticut State (Div. III) and Eastern Connecticut State (Div. III - no football). None are related to the University of Connecticut.

Well this whole thread really came full circle whit that CSU thing. Back to square one boys.

[jd of de]

I come back enough to know the basic rules still apply. B/N pizza bad; C/U pizza good. B/N bars bad; C/U bars good. And on and on.

Thanks for re-affirming for me that ILL-DUI fans are for the most part total jackasses.

If you can't take it, don't dish it. You cry like a big pussy. You re-affirmed some ISU'ers still suffers from little d*#k syndrome too. Somethings never change. ILL-INI

[SactoHornetAlum]

PSU is Portland State as long as you are on campus. Anywhere else in the BCS and Pac-10 happy Portland, PSU is Penn State.

I get confused when it comes to Sacramento State, which is why during my prediction threads, you see me spell it out as "Sac State" (I use the acronyms of the other schools and will spell out those non conference opponents, FBS and FCS). I've been told in the past that Sacramento State does not go by "SSU" as that is reserved in California for Sonoma State, and also does not use the "CSUS" as the school rarely goes by the name of Cal State University-Sacramento.

The only official names to use for the school are:
California State University, Sacramento (the full name spelled out)
Sacramento State (the everyday name)
Sac State (the nickname)

I have seen that when it comes to an abbrieviation, we use SAC. Not CSUS, because the Stanislaus campus uses that. The names Sacramento State, Sac State and SAC are intended to portray more of a national name, a la, Fresno State.

[SuperHornet]

The only official names to use for the school are:
California State University, Sacramento (the full name spelled out)
Sacramento State (the everyday name)
Sac State (the nickname)

I have seen that when it comes to an abbrieviation, we use SAC. Not CSUS, because the Stanislaus campus uses that. The names Sacramento State, Sac State and SAC are intended to portray more of a national name, a la, Fresno State.

That's interesting, SHA. I'd always seen CSUS for academic purposes because that "other" school in "Turdlock" went by Stan State.

[GeauxLions94]

Another one is Southeastern Louisiana...we prefer to simply go by Southeastern, or if SLU if need be, but we are not SELU nor SELA, even though our official school website is selu.edu...only reason for that is because Saint Louis University had already taken slu.edu.

Damn Billikens!

SLU
Southeastern Louisiana University
St. Louis University
St. Lawrence University
St. Leo University

[GrizMadman2]

Thought I'd help my good friend CatMom out by discussing widely confused acronyms for schools in FCS.

Tut, tut, TT. You're not talking about acronyms. You're talking about abbreviations.

[YoUDeeMan]

AGS - Any Given Saturday OR Assholes Giving Strikes?

Very confusing.











However, we know which one it was under Puke and Texas Terrorist.

[OSBF]

Thanks for re-affirming for me that ILL-DUI fans are for the most part total jackasses.

If you can't take it, don't dish it. You cry like a big pussy. You re-affirmed some ISU'ers still suffers from little d*#k syndrome too. Somethings never change. ILL-INI

just crawl back to the ghetto in shambanna

Bloomington-Normal is waaaay too cultured for a ILL-DUI grad anyways.

[jd of de]

If you can't take it, don't dish it. You cry like a big pussy. You re-affirmed some ISU'ers still suffers from little d*#k syndrome too. Somethings never change. ILL-INI

just crawl back to the ghetto in shambanna

Bloomington-Normal is waaaay too cultured for a ILL-DUI grad anyways.

Lived both places whiner .... culture in B/N is spelled C-H-I-C-A-G-O or roadtrip. Don't facts just suck sometimes. Someday ISU will be a real school.

[Herky]

The only official names to use for the school are:
California State University, Sacramento (the full name spelled out)
Sacramento State (the everyday name)
Sac State (the nickname)

I have seen that when it comes to an abbrieviation, we use SAC. Not CSUS, because the Stanislaus campus uses that. The names Sacramento State, Sac State and SAC are intended to portray more of a national name, a la, Fresno State.

That's interesting, SHA. I'd always seen CSUS for academic purposes because that "other" school in "Turdlock" went by Stan State.

Follow the link I provided in my last post and look at page 6, it answers your question.

The acronym "CSUS" is no longer used, it was part of the re-branding effort by the university years back. The exceptions are web addresses and professor emails. SHA is correct, you'll never see "CSUS" used, rather SAC is used.

[OSBF]

just crawl back to the ghetto in shambanna

Bloomington-Normal is waaaay too cultured for a ILL-DUI grad anyways.

Lived both places whiner .... culture in B/N is spelled C-H-I-C-A-G-O or roadtrip. Don't facts just suck sometimes. Someday ISU will be a real school.

WOW, I knew the ILL-DUI folks were getting worried about ISU, but I really had no idea it had gotten to this point.

Shambanna is a great place for nightlife, if you're looking to score meth, crack, or a whore.

Only bar safe to walk into is the Blind Pig, perhaps Cowboy Monkey.

[aceinthehole]

CSU
Charleston Southern University
Colorado State University
Connecticut State University

There is no "Connecticut State University" except for the system. Campuses are Central Connecticut State(FCS), Southern Connecticut State (Div. II), Western Connecticut State (Div. III) and Eastern Connecticut State (Div. III - no football). None are related to the University of Connecticut.

Yep, UA72 is right!

Here's a link to the CSUS (that is the prefered acronym for the Connecticut State University System) logos and template guidance. Of course, CCSU doesn't publish its own style guide
http://www.ct.edu/system-office/logo/#guides

But here are a few interesting notes:
Central's website address is its acronym - http://www.CCSU.edu
Western also uses its acronym - http://www.WCSU.edu, but 2 others don't.
Eastern (ECSU) - http://www.EasternCT.edu
Southern (SCSU) - www.SouthernCT.edu

The "system" has 2 different web addesses - http://www.CTStateU.edu - and a newer one - http://www.CT.edu

Also, I have a B.A from Central and a M.S. from Southern, but both diplomas are nearly identical, as they both read "The Connecticut State University" across the top. They differ slightly in size and the "place given" reads "New Britain" and "New Haven" respectively.

[bench]

Lived both places whiner .... culture in B/N is spelled C-H-I-C-A-G-O or roadtrip. Don't facts just suck sometimes. Someday ISU will be a real school.

WOW, I knew the ILL-DUI folks were getting worried about ISU, but I really had no idea it had gotten to this point.

Shambanna is a great place for nightlife, if you're looking to score meth, crack, or a whore.

Only bar safe to walk into is the Blind Pig, perhaps Cowboy Monkey.

I might have suspected as much before, but now it's official: Midwestern smack-talk is exceedingly lame. It's all that traditional Heartland politesse, I guess...there's just no real edge to it, typically no swearing, and just a dull back-and-forth trading of moral strictures. I IMPUGN YOUR REGION'S MORAL STANDARDS WITH REGARDS TO LOOSE WOMEN AND NARCOTICS, SIR! HAVE AT YOU, FOUL INIQUITOUS BEAST OF SODOM!

[OSBF]

WOW, I knew the ILL-DUI folks were getting worried about ISU, but I really had no idea it had gotten to this point.

Shambanna is a great place for nightlife, if you're looking to score meth, crack, or a whore.

Only bar safe to walk into is the Blind Pig, perhaps Cowboy Monkey.

I might have suspected as much before, but now it's official: Midwestern smack-talk is exceedingly lame. It's all that traditional Heartland politesse, I guess...there's just no real edge to it, typically no swearing, and just a dull back-and-forth trading of moral strictures. I IMPUGN YOUR REGION'S MORAL STANDARDS WITH REGARDS TO LOOSE WOMEN AND NARCOTICS, SIR! HAVE AT YOU, FOUL INIQUITOUS BEAST OF SODOM!

it runs a little deeper than that with ISU/UIUC. Only 45 miles seperate the 2. 25 years ago, like when I went there, ISU was the K-mart U of Illinois. Then along came Victor Boschini as ISU prez, and things changed. He slashed enrollment by tightening up admission standards. Today there is very little difference between the 2 schools academically. The ACT of entering freshmen is about equal, the % of entering freshman that graduate is about equal, ISU actually accepts a much lower % of first time college applicants than UIUC.

They still want us to be K-mart U because we scare them. We're trying to fire up a med school and a law school and they are fighting us hard in the legislature. Our College of Business kicks theirs in the sac. Our College of education has always been far superior to theirs.

The community our campus is located in is far superior to theirs. It's like the little brother you don't want to grow up because he might someday be able to kick your ass. They use the same smack they did 25 years ago, because they got nothing new, and really just aren't intelligent or creative enough to come up with a new schtick. Sad, really its just sad, I feel bad for them, sometimes.

[Herky]

Lived both places whiner .... culture in B/N is spelled C-H-I-C-A-G-O or roadtrip. Don't facts just suck sometimes. Someday ISU will be a real school.

WOW, I knew the ILL-DUI folks were getting worried about ISU, but I really had no idea it had gotten to this point.

Shambanna is a great place for nightlife, if you're looking to score meth, crack, or a whore.

Only bar safe to walk into is the Blind Pig, perhaps Cowboy Monkey.

Sounds like my kind of place

[jd of de]

WOW, I knew the ILL-DUI folks were getting worried about ISU, but I really had no idea it had gotten to this point.

Shambanna is a great place for nightlife, if you're looking to score meth, crack, or a whore.

Only bar safe to walk into is the Blind Pig, perhaps Cowboy Monkey.

Sounds like my kind of place

Wow. You make up words like a 5th grader. Facts too. Since its a football thread lets talk that sport. ISU, student body of what 15,000+ and a metro area of 75,000 can't put 10,000 people in the seats for a football game? Wow that a real foundation for school pride. Hell Western Illinois as fewer students, a football team that won ONE game, in a town of 20,000 and they put more people in that stands than you clowns. As long as you keep acting like a second rate school you will be one.

I now return this thread to its OP. I'm done with this moron.

[ccd494]

Surprised we haven't gotten into the "UM" battle yet.

Claimants:

University of Maine: You never really hear "UM." I think the preferred these days is "UMaine" in the style of UMass or UConn. The website is "umaine.edu" and NOT "maine.edu" which refers to the whole system. As a note: UMO is not an appropriate abbreviation for the school. It was for only 15 years, as it stood for "University of Maine-Orono." However, Because the Orono campus is the flagship, and on a different level than the others [UMaine Fort Kent, UMaine Machias, UMaine Portland-Gorham (aka Univ. of Southern Maine), UMaine Farmington] as a national research university, it is actually THE University of Maine. UMO seems to persist, despite the university's (and especially the faculty's) attempts to stamp it out.

University of Massachusetts: Again, you never hear "UM." It's always "UMass." The Hockey East fans among us will often refer to it as "UMA" to distinguish it from UMass-Lowell ("UML"). That really makes no one happy, as the UMass fans make the same argument UMaine makes above (flagship), and UML only reluctantly took on the "UMass" moniker in the 1990's.

University of Montana: I think this is the most common "UM" reference around FCS. I'm okay with it, as a UMaine fan. "UMontana" or "UMont" just sound funny.

Non FCS claimants:

University of Michigan: Ubiquity breeds acceptance. Even across the hockey world, where Minnesota is arguably the larger power, Michigan is the true "UM."

University of Minnesota: Michigan being called "UM" has to really stick in their craws. One of my favorite parts of the college hockey season is when Minnesota makes its annual trip to play Minnesota-Duluth ("UMD"). The scoreboard will list the visitors as "UMTC" to represent "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities." Hand wringing ensues.

University of Miami: I'm sure some of our Floridians can weigh in, but I rarely hear "UM" for Miami. They seem to really be pushing "The U" as their abbreviation. Of course, as a hockey fan and a northerner, I recognize Miami University as the true Miami anyways (#1 in the nation in hockey right now).

University of Mississippi: "Ole Miss" is ubiquitous anyways, I don't think they stake any claim to "UM." As a side note, I heartily endorse Admiral Akbar as their new mascot: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/2 ... 75349.html . "It's a trap!"

University of Maryland: I'm sure it has happened, but I don't think I have ever heard "UM" for Maryland.