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Originally posted by Soccerboy:
My guess is the world would first implode before schools go against the NCAA. I would like to see what would happen if some Universities has the gumption to stand up against the "oppressor". I know the school district my wife teaches in has the mascot of an Indian. They refuse to change, and there have been very few complaints on that. The whole PC in the US is just annoying. Just come to the conclusion that you can't please everybody, people are going to be mad, and that's just the way life is. Life goes on. Maybe somebody should come up with a Universit that is called the "fighting whites". That would be interesting. How many people would complain about that? Have them dressed as crusaders, or the colonists taking over the US.
Funny you said "fighting whites" ..there was actually a team on a reservation out west called "The Fighting Whities(sp)" If they truly appreciate and honor that mascot..then I say more power to them (though it's obviously a joke)..but I mean.. are people getting bent about The Fighting Irish, Ragin' Cajuns, Rebels, etc.. if the NCAA wasn't just trying to satisfy these organizations..they'd be after Notre Dame, Ole Miss, etc..

My junior year in HS..we had a school vote as to whether we should change our mascot from the "Demon" to either the: Lions, Patriots, or some other generic mascot.. because some middle school parent (I knew the lady)..didn't want her kid to go to a school with a Demon as a mascot.. she organized a moderate following.. but this wasn't the first time this had happened..so it was rejected. The lady pulled her kid from Lugoff-Elgin..and sent her elsewhere in the county.. though L-E was superior academically. Priorities?

Silly adults..