No iowa

[P. compressa]

Sorry if this was already commented on.


I live in Canada and I must say CBS's abbreviations are hilarious. Many of the patrons of the bar last night were very confused by the team "No Iowa"

Although the score up in Canada used UNI, they had some good ones too like KSST

Luckily my fellow Canadians got into the game and we had some fun chanting No Iowa and cheering along with the action.

[UNIpanther99]

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"NO IA" is really odd. They should really just go with UNI, but if they insist that doesn't explain who we are,
N Iowa would be better and is only 6 characters counting the space.

[Panther78]

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"NO IOWA" That's funny, and true.

[panther2317]

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Kind of like when Missouri State used to be "SMS", but CBS used "SWMOSTA"

[clenz]

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I don't know if they can use UNI...Doesn't our athletic department have something about us only going as Northern Iowa and not UNI?

[Panther-Sheik]

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Southern Illinois is usually So Ill which is also funny

[UNIpanther99]

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I don't know if they can use UNI...Doesn't our athletic department have something about us only going as Northern Iowa and not UNI?

Considering UNI is in our logo, no they don't.

[BCPanther]

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I know for a while they were trying to brand us nationally as UNI, a la LSU, UCLA, USC, etc...

Wonder what happened to that?

[clenz]

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Considering UNI is in our logo, no they don't.

We also own the trademark to our logo.


I'm not talking about our logo, there is some clause that the university put out about how our name is to be printed by the media, but I can't remember the stipulations on how they want it to be typed.


I'll see if I can find it.





EDIT....After some research I found this


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.



It would seem that CBS is doing it wrong.


We need to get them on the phone and let them know






It would solve a lot of fricking problems though if we would put UNI on our uniforms, rather than Northern Iowa. When we go by Northern Iowa people assume it is Northern Iowa University. That mistake can't be made if we go by UNI.

[UNIpanther99]

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We also own the trademark to our logo.


I'm not talking about our logo, there is some clause that the university put out about how our name is to be printed by the media.


I'll see if I can find it.

No, it used to be the other way around... We wanted people to use UNI instead of Northern Iowa. I think they kind of gave up though.

[PantherChic]

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It would solve a lot of fricking problems though if we would put UNI on our uniforms, rather than Northern Iowa. When we go by Northern Iowa people assume it is Northern Iowa University. That mistake can't be made if we go by UNI.

This makes perfect sense...

[UNIpanther99]

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It would solve a lot of fricking problems though if we would put UNI on our uniforms, rather than Northern Iowa. When we go by Northern Iowa people assume it is Northern Iowa University. That mistake can't be made if we go by UNI.

When SMS was printed on the Bear's jerseys it didn't really seem to help them. I like Northern Iowa.

[CanuckPanther]

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I can put up with CBS' No Iowa far more easily than I could put up with the CBS commentators constantly praising UNLV, constantly talking about how UNLV was doing one thing and UNI could not adjust to it, then how UNLV was doing that and UNI could not react to it fast enough, and so "cheerfully" announcing at the instant the buzzer went for the first half that "UNLV is 19-0 when leading at the half!!!!" I heard very, very few comments praising UNI. I hope those jerks have choked on their own words!

[ODUMan4Prez]

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I also love Old Dom...

[panther2317]

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CBS' commentators were fair and balanced. They praised UNI plenty. We're all just used to Gary so anything less than the love he gives makes it feel like the broadcasters aren't showing us the love.