The NCAA banned the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments, but will not prohibit them otherwise.
The NCAA's Executive Committee decided this week the organization did not have the authority to bar Indian mascots by individual schools, committee chairman Walter Harrison said Friday.
Nicknames or mascots deemed "hostile or abusive" would not be allowed by teams on their uniforms or other clothing beginning with any NCAA tournament after Feb. 1, said Harrison, the University of Hartford's president.
"What each institution decides to do is really its own business" outside NCAA championship events, he said.
At least 18 schools have mascots the NCAA would deem "hostile or abusive," including Florida State's Seminole and Illinois' Illini. The full list of schools was not immediately released.
What about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish? Let the slippery slope commence.
Sadder news: Jim Kelly's son Hunter died this morning at the age of 8.
The NCAA's Executive Committee decided this week the organization did not have the authority to bar Indian mascots by individual schools, committee chairman Walter Harrison said Friday.
Nicknames or mascots deemed "hostile or abusive" would not be allowed by teams on their uniforms or other clothing beginning with any NCAA tournament after Feb. 1, said Harrison, the University of Hartford's president.
"What each institution decides to do is really its own business" outside NCAA championship events, he said.
At least 18 schools have mascots the NCAA would deem "hostile or abusive," including Florida State's Seminole and Illinois' Illini. The full list of schools was not immediately released.
What about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish? Let the slippery slope commence.
Sadder news: Jim Kelly's son Hunter died this morning at the age of 8.
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Maybe ND could become the Fighting Irish Terriers?
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What next, no animal mascots because it represents human oppression of animals. Auburn Tigers, OUT. K-State Wildcats, OUT. KU Jayhawks, OUT. Clemson Tigers, OUT. You get the idea... Maybe next we can get rid of the Tennessee Volunteers, I mean come on, can we allow them to demean people who freely give their time to help others? And I guess the University of Alabama is a bunch of misogynistic SOBs.
Slippery slope indeed.