Besides Notre Dame, I have other questions that - so far as I know - haven't been asked yet regarding the new "hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin" policy the NCAA is using to try to force schools to change Indian-related nicknames and mascots.
Will Wichita St and the Universities of Miami (Florida and Ohio) have to change or cover up their names?
How about any school with the name of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri or Utah in it?
Will the NCAA move from Indianapolis, Indiana to a more politically correctly named place?
(Thanks to Kevin on my BCS user group for those last two. Kevin also tells me that the Nittany Lion could be in trouble. See the Penn St website for the origin of that)
Will the Missouri Valley conference have to change or cover up its name?
Will the NCAA drop Pontiac as a corporate champion partner of the Final Four?
Note: Pontiac uses more Indian imagery than Central Michigan University does.
If CMU is no longer allowed to be the Chippewas even after dropping all its Indian imagery, why is Ole Miss still allowed to be the Rebels?
Besides the Fighting Irish, what of Highlanders, Spartans, Trojans and Vikings?
When PETA starts pitching a fuss, will animal nicknames/mascots/images be banned too?
OK, that last question is a little facetious, but only a little. I'm completely serious about the others. And I haven't even delved into lower division names (like Shawnee St, which jumps to mind).
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I am a Kansas fan and I don't know why KU wasn't on the list of programs that had to lose their mascot. Jayhawk is named after the "jayhawker" civil war soldiers. Jayhawkers were marauders who slashed and burned just about everything in their path in fighting against pro-slavery factions.
I don't want to see KU have to duct tape their jerseys to cover up the "Jayhawk" emblem or word when they play in the NCAA Tournament in March or if they make a bowl game this fall.
This new rule is not only ludicrous but it is capricious and arbitrary.
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