JaQuan Lyle Decommits

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/basketball/mens/story/_/id/9675392/jaquan-lyle-no-5-point-guard-2014-espn-100-decommits-louisville-cardinals

JaQuan Lyle (2014 #5 PG, #22 overall per ESPN) decommitted from Louisville yesterday. Verbal Commits added him to our interest board. Do we have any interest in him?

[brewcity77]

I hope not. Total head case. If he plays more than 2 years in college, I'd be floored if they are all at the same school.

[Dawson Rental]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/basketball/mens/story/_/id/9675392/jaquan-lyle-no-5-point-guard-2014-espn-100-decommits-louisville-cardinals

JaQuan Lyle (2014 #5 PG, #22 overall per ESPN) decommitted from Louisville yesterday. Verbal Commits added him to our interest board. Do we have any interest in him?

Man, Louisville must lead the country in decommits.  MU was in on Lyle early on, so Verbal Commits probably just assumes that Buzz is still interested.

[LAZER]

Sounds like he and Cliff Alexander are trying to package themselves to KU together.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Sounds like he and Cliff Alexander are trying to package themselves to KU together.

KU or UK?

[Nukem2]

KU or UK?

Actually both should be called UK but the University of Kansas uses that backward Big 12 nonsense...

[GOO]

Actually both should be called UK but the University of Kansas uses that backward Big 12 nonsense...

Is the University of Michigan correct?  If so, too bad as they use the M or a MU.  Also, University of Missouri, I know uses MU.   Can we start a movement to at least have Missouri go to UM? Or is that Mississippi?

Also when people use USC, it is often confusing unless the context let's one know if it is the Southern Cal or South Carolina.

[GGGG]

Also when people use USC, it is often confusing unless the context let's one know if it is the Southern Cal or South Carolina.

On college football boards...

USC = South Carolina
U$C = Southern Cal

[MUMonster03]

Is the University of Michigan correct?  If so, too bad as they use the M or a MU.  Also, University of Missouri, I know uses MU.   Can we start a movement to at least have Missouri go to UM? Or is that Mississippi?

Also when people use USC, it is often confusing unless the context let's one know if it is the Southern Cal or South Carolina.

There are a lot of schools that use the same abbreviation. The worst is OSU, can be Ohio State, Oklahoma State, or Oregon State.

I have never seen Michigan use MU (which as we all know takes you to Marquette's website) in everything I have ever seen it is always UM or very rarely UMich, which I believe is the official school website. Missouri is just stupid, just like abbreviating your name and using Z's instead of S's.  

[LAZER]

KU or UK?

KU

[LAZER]

There are a lot of schools that use the same abbreviation. The worst is OSU, can be Ohio State, Oklahoma State, or Oregon State.

I have never seen Michigan use MU (which as we all know takes you to Marquette's website) in everything I have ever seen it is always UM or very rarely UMich, which I believe is the official school website. Missouri is just stupid, just like abbreviating your name and using Z's instead of S's.  

I've only heard Michigan abbreviated as U of M.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Actually both should be called UK but the University of Kansas uses that backward Big 12 nonsense...

Big 8 has done it for years.  CU, NU, KU, OU, MU, etc.


Pretty common knowledge that Kansas is KU and UK is Kentucky.

[4everwarriors]

They both have football teams?

[ChicosBailBonds]

They both have football teams?

Barely.

Though when I was a student there we beat Oklahoma, went to a bowl game and won the bowl game.  That was rare exception.  Glen Mason was the coach. 

[Spotcheck Billy]

ASU to me will always = Appalachian State University not that one in AZ

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

On college football boards...

USC = South Carolina
U$C = Southern Cal

Best bowl game ever. The USC Trojans vs the USC Cocks.

The marketing practically writes itself

[MUMonster03]

Best bowl game ever. The USC Trojans vs the USC Cocks.

The marketing practically writes itself

Actually I have always thought South Carolina and Oregon State should have to play each other every year, the innuendo by the announcers would be great.

[Dawson Rental]

Actually I have always thought South Carolina and Oregon State should have to play each other every year, the innuendo by the announcers would be great.

Every year would get old real fast.  Maybe once every four years with (mostly) a new generation of students each time out.

[lurch91]

Actually I have always thought South Carolina and Oregon State should have to play each other every year, the innuendo by the announcers would be great.

I think the Cocks would take it to the Beavers.

Ohio State is always tOSU, Michigan is U of M exclusively.  MSU could be Michigan State, Mississippi State or Murray State or half a dozen others.... ugh.

[sailwi]

I know I have asked this before but does any one know why the Big 8 schools reverse their abbreviations?  I have searched the web endlessly and asked alumni of numerous Big 8 schools and still don't know the answer.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I know I have asked this before but does any one know why the Big 8 schools reverse their abbreviations?  I have searched the web endlessly and asked alumni of numerous Big 8 schools and still don't know the answer.

Why is the University of Colorado know as CU and not UC or U of C?
The same applies at Kansas-KU, Missouri-MU, Nebraska-NU, Oklahoma-OU and Denver-DU. "Midwestern casualness," says former CU historian Fred Casotti. It has always been this way at Colorado, for whatever reason, and at the other five listed above-but seemingly nowhere else in the USA. In the 1950s, there was a concerted effort to eliminate the use of "CU" on the Boulder campus, both as a symbol and in speech, but Casotti said that no one would buy into it. "Nobody would change," he said. "It's easier to say than U of C, UC sounds like slang or something (as in 'you see'), and it was traditional. By trying to eliminate it, they reinforced it."

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Hi Marc and Jon --

I received printed copies of two e-mail questions. I'm assuming somebody is
giving this to me to answer, which is fine, but if anybody else has already
replied, and our answers differ, then ....... you be the judge. Anyway, both
questions, from Mr. Scott and Mr. Ellison, are basically the same, so I'll do
my best to answer:

And the answer is: Dunno.

The truth is, KU essentially came to be the traditional shorthand reference
to the University of Kansas sometime in the late 19th century. I've certainly
seen it in archival documents that far back. My personal (unsubstantiated) hunch
is that it simply was easier to make songs and rhymes with KU than UK; back
then, every class, for instance, made up a class song. The newspapers ran
regular poetry. There was lots of rhyming, singing, stuff like that going on,
and for whatever reason, "good ol' K. U." (usually with periods and the space)
caught on. And in any event, once the students, faculty and alumni reached the
unofficial consensus on "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk,Go KU!" the matter was settled.

I don't think it has anything to do with the University of Kentucky's
use of UK. There is also some disagreement about what the exact name of the
school is, as written in Latin on the University seal. Some contend it says
"Kansas University," and therefore is the source of KU; others say it's
impossible to truly make that distinction in the translation. I know and
respect scholars on both sides  of the argument, and don't know any Latin, so I
leave it at: Maybe, maybe not.

At any rate, University of Kansas is the official name of the
University, it always has been the official name, and KU is the accepted
shorthand reference, and origins of the shorthand reference would be anecdotal
at  best -- except I can assure you it has nothing to do with Kentucky. Mr.
Ellison, you are correct in pointing out the similar usage by Mizzou, CU, NU
and OU ... Seems to be a typical usage by central-region state flagship
universities. But again, the exact answer to "why" is probably  unknowable. I
can tell you this question has bounced around for a very long time, and I've
never heard an authoritative answer any more specific than what I've shared
here. Hope this helps.

Thanks for writing.

Cheers --- Chris Lazzarino, managing editor

Chris Lazzarino
Managing editor
Kansas Alumni magazine
1266 Oread Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66044

[MUMonster03]

I know I have asked this before but does any one know why the Big 8 schools reverse their abbreviations?  I have searched the web endlessly and asked alumni of numerous Big 8 schools and still don't know the answer.

I would ask when did the abbreviating of schools name become popular? UC is commonly used by Cincy. Maybe the Big 8 took to the convention later and a lot of schools had already started using U first so they decided to go with KU, MU, etc.

[willie warrior]

I think the Cocks would take it to the Beavers.

Ohio State is always tOSU, Michigan is U of M exclusively.  MSU could be Michigan State, Mississippi State or Murray State or half a dozen others.... ugh.

Don't forget Mankato State.

[Aughnanure]

Why is the University of Colorado know as CU and not UC or U of C?
The same applies at Kansas-KU, Missouri-MU, Nebraska-NU, Oklahoma-OU and Denver-DU. "Midwestern casualness," says former CU historian Fred Casotti. It has always been this way at Colorado, for whatever reason, and at the other five listed above-but seemingly nowhere else in the USA. In the 1950s, there was a concerted effort to eliminate the use of "CU" on the Boulder campus, both as a symbol and in speech, but Casotti said that no one would buy into it. "Nobody would change," he said. "It's easier to say than U of C, UC sounds like slang or something (as in 'you see'), and it was traditional. By trying to eliminate it, they reinforced it."

Plus ISU, KSU, and OSU. It get different once you go to Texas though and it becomes UT. It's a very Big 8 thing - Plains thing.

[willie warrior]

I think the Cocks would take it to the Beavers.

Ohio State is always tOSU, Michigan is U of M exclusively.  MSU could be Michigan State, Mississippi State or Murray State or half a dozen others.... ugh.

The cocks would take it to the Beavers, but depending on which Beaver it is, the Cocks would either find an extremely tight path to victory, or more likely would be enveloped and forced to shut down.