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Post by BBFran on Mar 18, 2014 12:30:49 GMT -6
At this point essentially the entire media world calls us "Milwaukee" except for our "friends" at the JS-Milw. They apparently believe their readers are on the whole so stupid that if they listed in their sports broadcast box, under college basketball, that Milwaukee was playing Green Bay at 7:00pm on a Tuesday night in February, those people would tune in expecting to see the Brewers playing the Packers.
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Post by Hack on Mar 18, 2014 16:44:17 GMT -6
That can't happen until the athletic department completely eliminates the use of UWM, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee, et al, in its promotion, press releases, and news stories.
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Post by derickkelly28 on Mar 18, 2014 18:10:40 GMT -6
That can't happen until the athletic department completely eliminates the use of UWM, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee, et al, in its promotion, press releases, and news stories. Athletics for the most part has been trying for years. The only one with enough clout and power to really push it forward is Chancellor Lovell. He has to get behind it and get strict with it. The university needs to get behind the branding starting at the top and there are a lot of people who still want the UW with it.
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SRT4driver
Junior
We Are MILWAUKEE! And I'm all about accountability, unlike '5th Placer' Jeter apologists.
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Post by SRT4driver on Mar 18, 2014 22:23:31 GMT -6
And therein lies the problem, there are people in power at our university who WANT the "UW-" to stick around. Even Green Bay's administration had enough foresight several years ago to see how foolish that thinking is for a D-I school, and had everything re-branded to "Green Bay" several years ago.
We should turn this thread into a "log" of all the different sports and media websites that list them as "Green Bay", but us as UW-Mil, UW-M, Wisc.-Mil, Wisconsin-Mil, etc etc etc....
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 20, 2014 7:02:06 GMT -6
The Panthers were referenced as UMW in the Milwaukee paper again today.
Could we -- emphasis on we -- get this fixed please? Please?
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Post by PantherU on Sept 9, 2014 15:14:22 GMT -6
Three of us here at Boucher Volkswagen are checking out the schedule. New salesman comes up (just moved here from Texas), asks us what we're doing, one of the guys says "Looking at UWM's schedule."
He says, I sh*t you not, "Western Michigan?"
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Post by apaladino on Sept 12, 2014 12:46:41 GMT -6
Nope...Western Mississippi
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 12, 2014 14:37:27 GMT -6
Western Manitoba?
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Post by parkerj on Oct 9, 2014 17:11:32 GMT -6
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Post by BBFran on Oct 9, 2014 18:31:47 GMT -6
That's hilarious. From now on maybe we should just be referred to as M Squared!
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Post by ghostofdylan on Oct 11, 2014 8:16:34 GMT -6
Now this is just plain silly.
-- signed Roseanne Roseannadanna
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SRT4driver
Junior
We Are MILWAUKEE! And I'm all about accountability, unlike '5th Placer' Jeter apologists.
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Post by SRT4driver on Dec 14, 2014 22:06:55 GMT -6
Montana to face Milwaukee-Wisconsin Sunday afternoon
SERIES: The Panthers lead 2-1. Series scores: 2005-06: Milwaukee-Wisconsin 78, at Montana 74; 2003-02: at UMW 95, Montana 83; 1964-65: At Montana 96, UMW 62.
THE GAME: The University of Montana Grizzlies (3-5) are on the road for the sixth time in their first nine game, playing the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin Panthers (4-6), Sunday, Dec. 14. Tip-off at 4:07 p.m. in UMW's Klotsche Center.
UP NEXT: Montana is off for a week after the UMW game, and will host South Dakota on Sunday, Dec. 21, with tip-off at 1:05 p.m. in Dahlberg Arena.
And Montana's postgame article too.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Dec 15, 2014 16:35:56 GMT -6
Dear Mr. Mone:
UW-Milwaukee is not a "brand," but the name of a school.
It's a school of which I'm mostly proud, but not one whose athletics teams are "branded" well.
Get a freaking clue.
Sincerely!
DR
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Post by skrapheap on Mar 11, 2015 17:31:34 GMT -6
Does leaving the W out of Milwaukee count? ESPN did that at least once during Monday night's broadcast of the Women's Horizon League Tournament game. It will be interesting to see if they manage to spell Milwaukee correctly all through tonight's game.
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Post by FTA1982 on Nov 18, 2015 17:35:24 GMT -6
The usher at Notre Dame yesterday said "Welcome Western Michigan fans" to us as he saw my dad's UWM shirt. Good times.
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