Tomahawk chop stop

[sigma7]

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.

Comments

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Florida State is gonna sue the NCAA to keep the Seminoles name/logo/etc. Hee.... I agree with them -- they've got the blessing of the Seminole tribe....

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I thought it was rather brilliant, actually. But then, for twenty years I've been subjected to listening to townsfolk explain that a team with an Indian mascot called the Lamar Savages is a COMPLIMENT.

Maybe ND could become the Fighting Irish Terriers?

NCAA lunacy

[taelech.livejournal.com]

The NCAA has finally left the world of reason. You can't name your team after an Indian tribe, but you can allow football players to DOUBLE the amount of drugs they do. Yeah, my mother-trucking alma matter just decreed that a football player can get busted for drug offenses four times before he gets kicked off of the team (and perhaps not permanently at that.) I've never been a huge Gamecocks fan, but now I actively oppose the bunch of looting, pot-smoking thugs. Why can't the NCAA focus on the best interests of the players instead of its own image? God knows having an off-color mascot is a lot worse than the kids that they are supposed to be regulating seriously hurting their futures.
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.