Hostile and Abusive nickname update

[Da Coach]

The NCAA is giving the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux a 3 year reprieve to try to get the state's Sioux tribes to approve their nickname. If they refuse to approve the nckname, as they currently have, the school must retire the nickname and imagery.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=55050&section=homepage

 

[Dallas Brave]

The NCAA is giving the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux a 3 year reprieve to try to get the state's Sioux tribes to approve their nickname. If they refuse to approve the nckname, as they currently have, the school must retire the nickname and imagery.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=55050&section=homepage

Looks like the NCAA is still on the war path (oops)

 

[Guinness]

Looks like the NCAA is still on the war path (oops)

Fans around the nation form a trail of tears.

er....

 

[bert notorius]

What a crock.

 

[tornado]

Arkansas State believes the latest NCAA decision has basically given them a pass.
They have been removed from the list......
they are the Arkansas State Indians
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Sports/206089/

 

[MacabreMob]

Arkansas State believes the latest NCAA decision has basically given them a pass.
They have been removed from the list......
they are the Arkansas State Indians
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Sports/206089/

I hope they change their mascot to a squirrel - it would be so unique. Heck - I'd even wear t-shirts, sweatshirts and hats with their squirrel mascot - it would be awesome. People would want to know how to get some of the squirrel-gear I was wearing... it would be a huge money maker for them.

Scheeeyaaa, right!

Why would I wear anything that would have anything to do with Arkansas State?

Maybe if they made a run to the Sweet 16 or something. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. Arkansas St went to the NCAA only 1 time and lost 1st round as a 15 seed in 1999. I think W Ky was the last team from the Sun Belt to go to the Sweet 16 in like 93 (under Clem Haskins, maybe?).

 

[bert notorius]

I can't tell by looking what they did to remove the hostile and abusive from this.....

 

[ser_solace]

I think the Seminoles actually gave Florida State permission to use their name and image...for a fee.

So, Florida State can do whatever.

 

[MacabreMob]

I can't tell by looking what they did to remove the hostile and abusive from this.....

Looks like he's wearing more of a Daniel Boone/Davey Crockett coonskin hat, dont'ya think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonskin_cap

 

[bert notorius]

...and snake skin pj's.

 

[bert notorius]

I'm just trying here to walk a mile in another man's moccasins. If I were a Sioux, Choctaw, or whatever, and I believe it is racist that Universities use NA imagery, how (no pun intended) do I feel about FSU getting a pass?

 

[Da Coach]

The Arkansas State Indians have considered changing their nickname to something less offensive. ASU is an NCAA Division I school that was on the original list of 18 schools that the NCAA determined had unacceptable mascots , names, or logos. But for some mystifying reason, they had backed off. Now the university is voluntarily exploring the possibility of a name change.
The Mascot Selection Steering Committee has recommended the "Wolves" as the new name if it is approved by the Chancellor.

http://www.asuindians.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=35830&SPID=2855&DB_OEM_ID=7200&ATCLID=1378831

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/215320/

 

[ph]

It would be funny for Arkansas State to adopt, say, a Pot Bellied Pig for a mascot