[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I guess they could rename them the "Utah Sunflowers" until the Sierra Club gets offended and sues.

[kb2614]

Political Correctness - Tyranny with manners. (I believe Charlton Heston said this).

It's not surprising that the limp wristed NCAA curled in a fetal position and made this ruling. Wimps.

[George Stupidnopolis]

Tune in next week when The Fighting Irish are deemed insensitive to leprechauns

[Frank_2001]

Eff the NCAA! This PC nonsense has got to stop.

[RichInOC]

Okay...so call them the Yoots.

[Reaganesque]

How about this from Mystery Science Theater 3000: "The Nummy-Muffin CooCooButters". Now how could anyone object to that? (What do I care? I went to BYU. heh, heh, heh!)

[stylin19a]

what's wrong with the word yute ?

(Pesci) Is it possible, the two "yutes"...
(Judge) Eh, two what?... What was that word?
(Pesci) Ah, what word?
(Judge) Two what?
(Pesci) What?
(Judge) Did you say "yutes"?
(Pesci) Yeah, two "yutes".
(Judge) What is a "yute"?

[skaterboy]

Of course they keep the $$ these programs bring in

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

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, but by preventing those teams from participating in its playoffs, it effectively is forcing the names to be abandoned nationwide.

In other words, the NCAA doesn't have the authority to order teams to change their names but they can harass teams into bending to their stupid PC nonsense agenda.

I have a feeling the NCAA is going to get an earful over this little caper. Cripes, they're still reeling from their stupid BCS legacy. What's wrong with these people?

[CommandoFrank]

to be ''hostile or abusive,

I fing the NCAA'a ruling to be hostile or abusive!

As a sidenote, no one has complained yet about my alma mater from the Sam Houston Institute of Technology...

We were called 'The Turds'...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Hey, y'all checking out this action?

[dr_lew]

Let me get this straight. They're saying that Illinois teams can't call themselves the Illini? On the news this was presented as though they wouldn't let Chief Illinewek perform in a bowl game, or something. Are they really going with an all out Inquistition here ?

[little jeremiah]

They'll have to have inoffensive, non-sexist, non-aggressive names like "Utah Mungbeans" and Central Michigan University "Meadowgrass".

I'm not a sports fan, so I have no dog in this fight, but politican correctness is actually evil.

Remember a team the "Fighting Whities" a while ago?

[AmishDude]

They originally ruled that Iowa State was being hostile to robots:

but they took them off the list

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

NCAA Constitution pertaining to cultural diversity, ethical sportsmanship and nondiscrimination

Why are they concerning themselves with anything besides fair play on the playing field? Sounds like somebody needs some reining in!

Sports teams are concerned with winning games, period. The racial part is inherently taken care of. You want guys who are the strongest and fastest, not a particular race.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

NCAA Constitution pertaining to cultural diversity, ethical sportsmanship and nondiscrimination

NCAA Ode To Faggotry is more like it.

[ilgipper]

Brand strikes again. His PC BS took IU athletics and academics down a few notches, and now is delivering the results for NCAA.

[glock rocks]

Perhaps the U should step up to the times.

Aw hell, the Running Redskins portrayed just too much support of the peaceful Ute's accumen and ability of past. We need to accept the local natives. "They" being the aclu lawyers.

I don't understand... are our native American brothers and sisters offended by our acclaiming them as fighters, warriors, and winners???

Fine. Change the name. Big deal. Just next time, name the team after somebody that isn't afraid of being a symbol of success and winning attitude. In the meantime, maybe there's an aclu-friendly queer group that would like to name themselves the native bumhuggers or some such.

[Kirkwood]

I said this was going to happen last year and everyone didn't believe me. More PC is to come - this is still the beginning of the end. The head of the NCAA is the former president of Indiana University who along with a cabal of ultra-liberal professors, set up Bob Knight and forced him to be fired. The Knight firing was all a crock, using the weasel son of one of the biggest liberal critics of Knight to provoke Knight into verbally rebuking him. This cabal of professors hated all men's college sports and the conservatism of Knight constantly rankled them. Especially when Knight insisted on a military honor guard to present the American flag before each game. Now they are out to take down all of men's college sports.

[SC Swamp Fox]

I noticed that the UNC-Pembroke Braves got a pass by the NCAA. I wonder if the Lumbee Indians that comprise a majority of their students and alumni had something to say about it.

On the opposite side of the coin...
My son and I both attend Francis Marion University, our mascot is The Patriot, symbolized by the original Swamp Fox, Col. Francis Marion. I wonder when someone will complain about this insulting and degrading use of a white man's image?

[Polybius]

June 17, 2005.............. Seminole Tribe supports use of Seminole name