Columbia Daily Tribune: The Real 'U' resides in sunny south Florida

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per the Columbia Daily Tribune:

Any chance that I get, I’ll pick up a copy of the newspaper in the city I’m visiting. On assignment for the Missouri volleyball team’s NCAA Tournament match against Minnesota, that meant grabbing a copy of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune at the hotel.

In scanning over the sports page, I discovered that Minnesota’s athletic teams are referred to as “The U” in the newspaper. I must admit, as a kid who doesn’t remember very much of watching the Miami Hurricanes in their national championship prime, I’m appalled.

Flabbergasted. Bamboozled. Perplexed. Flummoxed.

In all seriousness, though, “The U?”

I never heard the Dallas Cowboys’ Marion Barber, a Minnesota Gophers football product, call his school “The U” during his seven years in the NFL. Not once.

So before I leave you, let’s get one thing straight: The Real The U resides in sunny South Florida.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/spor...cle_30534865-d38f-5840-adcc-8ae9e18280e6.html

Go Gophers!!
 

Wow that was insightful writing.

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Except we were the U before Miami was even division 1
 

I don think anyone really cares what this guy thinks. Those that actually know the history know that the U of MN was called "The U" locally long before a bunch of convicts decided to do the same.
 

Except the simple fact that the University of Minnesota was called 'the U' before the
University of Miami even existed.....

excellent journalism
 


I always think of Miami as "The U" as well. This topic gets a huge "who cares" from me.


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Spoofin said:
I always think of Miami as "The U" as well. This topic gets a huge "who cares" from me.


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I think most people do. No issue with that. The problem with this article is that he is acting like MN copied it or something. I used to think doing a little bit of research before you write something was part of a writer's job. Appears it isn't anymore.
 

Apparently he has insecurity issues...
 




MNGoldenGophers1 said:
And nothing else to write about.
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Oh he did. He was there to cover the Gopher/MO Volleyball game. Which didn't end well for the Tigers.

MU volleyball team can't keep up with Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS — In what was billed as a matchup of two skilled offenses, the Missouri volleyball team’s offense didn’t show up to the party.

The 15th-seeded Tigers saw their season end at the hands of the second-seeded Gophers, who scored a 25-15, 21-25, 25-19, 25-15 victory in the NCAA Tournament Minneapolis Regional semifinal Friday in front of a capacity crowd at the Sports Pavilion. Minnesota, which extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 35 matches, advanced to face 10th-seeded UCLA with a trip to the Final Four on the line.

For MU’s group of four seniors who won a program-record 105 matches and bookended Southeastern Conference titles in a four-year span, it was a bittersweet end.

“We practiced to win and played to win, and tonight it didn’t fall in the direction that we wanted,” senior Emily Thater said.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/spor...cle_09b010b0-17fd-5aa7-9966-0cf04b821f1c.html
 

I used to live in northern California and everyone would refer to San Francisco as 'the city'. I take Minnesota's 'the U' in the same light. Regionally - yeah, we all know what you are referring to. Nationally - Miami had way better marketing. That said...this is an article about Volleyball...great....
 

I can't imagine why someone writing for a newspaper from Columbia Missouri would care.... weird.
 




The Comment Section so far:

David1231 Dec 11, 2016 8:25pm

Fun fact: The U of MN was called "The U" locally before the U of Miami even existed. Just because their football players decided they were going to be called that doesn't mean people of MN are going to change doing something that has been done for over 100 years. At least do a little research before you write about something. Or is that not a requirement anymore?


Shee010p Dec 12, 2016 8:46am

Pretty sure people regionally have been calling UMN "the U" for multiple generations now compared to the invention by Jimmy Johnsons rag tag mafia in the late 80s. I'm also so glad you name dropped MB3 and your vast experience with him in Dallas. Cool man.Go ask anyone from the upper Midwest and that's what many people from MN call their home school.

I thought you were reporting on the volleyball game...
 

Completely different usages of the term. Miami smartly branded themselves that way and it stuck, Minnesota's usage is just a local thing to refer to the University. No surprise people outside of the region don't know about it, it's just a regional term.
 

BleedGopher said:
per the Columbia Daily Tribune:

Any chance that I get, I’ll pick up a copy of the newspaper in the city I’m visiting. On assignment for the Missouri volleyball team’s NCAA Tournament match against Minnesota, that meant grabbing a copy of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune at the hotel.

In scanning over the sports page, I discovered that Minnesota’s athletic teams are referred to as “The U” in the newspaper. I must admit, as a kid who doesn’t remember very much of watching the Miami Hurricanes in their national championship prime, I’m appalled.

Flabbergasted. Bamboozled. Perplexed. Flummoxed.

In all seriousness, though, “The U?”

I never heard the Dallas Cowboys’ Marion Barber, a Minnesota Gophers football product, call his school “The U” during his seven years in the NFL. Not once.

So before I leave you, let’s get one thing straight: The Real The U resides in sunny South Florida.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/spor...cle_30534865-d38f-5840-adcc-8ae9e18280e6.html

Go Gophers!!
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A nice glass of warm milk may be needed to calm this little 'fella down....
 

Like you said

Ski U Master said:
Completely different usages of the term. Miami smartly branded themselves that way and it stuck, Minnesota's usage is just a local thing to refer to the University. No surprise people outside of the region don't know about it, it's just a regional term.
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Referring to the University of Minnesota as the U is a regional term that students and locals have used forever before the University of Miami was a Big time college football program and started marketing themselves as the "U".
We make no claims to what they have, Alumni and students have always referred to themselves as having a degree from the U or "I go to the U" besides saying CLA, IT or CFANS(College of Agriculture when I was in school) on which college, and people know which school you are associating that with locally by saying the U.
This dude needs to get his undies out of a bunch.
 

Plus, BTN commonly refers to Minnesota as The U, especially in player interviews.
 

While matriculating at UMD 35 years ago, we referred to UMTC as the "Main" U.
 

I get a laugh when people from greater Minnesota go to the "cities". It is all regional.
 

maroonfive said:
I get a laugh when people from greater Minnesota go to the "cities". It is all regional.
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Short for "Twin Cities". :rolleyes:

My older brother was born and grew-up in California. He got a kick out of how we'd call places like Faribault, St.Cloud and Duluth, all under 100,000 people, "cities". They were just big "towns" to him. Using the 100k, Minneapolis and St.Paul are the only "cities" in the state.

Still get a laugh about people referring to "Greater Minnesota". That's the marketing term developed by the 2 major political parties for "Outstate". A solution for a problem that never existed.

They thought it made those residents feel more "connected". Many of those residents felt it was patronizing instead.
 

My feelings are hurt. I think I need a safe space.
 



I've heard people from Texas refer to Dallas-Fort Worth as the "Twin Cities." To a Minnesotan, that sounds weird, but I don't think its a copyrighted term, so I guess they can call them whatever they want.
 


Vandy said:
While matriculating at UMD 35 years ago, we referred to UMTC as the "Main" U.
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UMD still puts "UM-TC" on the scoreboard during hockey games (or at least they did a few years ago)
 



Can we use this article as bulletin board material for the Holiday Bowl? No respect! Growl.


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