1) Congrats to UND for standing firm against the PC idiocy of the NCAA. Looks like they wound up with a slap on the wrist.
2) The self-important, educated idiot from the NCAA who wrote the letter quoted verbatim in the article, sounds like he's only marginally literate.
3) How in the heck do you wind up with a title like "Executive Vice President of Membership and Student-Athlete Affairs/Chief Inclusion Officer", anyway? Hope that he doesn't get paid by the word.
Meh. When oil hit big in Texas, the only real sport they had to glom onto was High School Football. They seem to have survived. :-)
Do Native Americans have a say?
‘3) How in the heck do you wind up with a title like “Executive Vice President of Membership and Student-Athlete Affairs/Chief Inclusion Officer”, anyway? Hope that he doesn’t get paid by the word.’
Because calling him the “VP School Political Officer” would be a little too obvious!
Do Native Americans have a say?
ND should immediately adopt a Leprechaun as mascot
Perhaps Mr. Franklin should drop 'chief' from his title, especially when accusing others of being hateful or abusive against Indians.
So the NCAA is trying to force probably a few million to be spent on new unis, caps, hats, logos, building changes, and more... for a purpose that fails to serve education in any fundamental manner... oh, except (I forgot) the lesson in messing with political correctness.
I propose they change their name to the “Fornicating Flukes”
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
The total picture here is a lot more gloomy for them than your info reveals, as another poster points out.
This is far more than a slap on the wrist.
I understand FL ST got a waiver to keep theirs because the Seminole tribe loves the name and logo and insisted on it.
Otherwise, the schools are helpless.
In my area, a Div III school...soon to go Div II...McMurry University...was forced to change their name away from “Indians”. The process they used for name suggestions narrowed it down to three and the campus community chose the favorite. They are now the McMurry War Hawks.
I like the new name, but am repulsed by the NCAA’s overwhelming power and political correctness run amok.
McMurry is often in playoffs in several sports. It is a very big deal to them, and in order to avoid losing all of that potential, they caved.
The schools themselves created the NCAA and the NCAA turned around and dictated to the schools.
Exactly like what happened after the states created the federal government.
Pull a Prince and start calling themselves THE TEAM FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE FIGHTING SIOUX. Then use the old logo with an X across it.
Are they also going after the ND Fighting Irish? Didn’t think so.
The legacy of Myles Brand lives on and is a gift that keeps on giving. There are two items to be held responsible for
1. Firing Coach Bobby Knight
2. The war on teams who use American Indian name’s
F* the NCaa
from a Golden Gopher fan (by birth, not choice)8-}
Franklin should have just signed his note “Commissar”.
Did this come from NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, perchance?