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Ben, many good valid points.
My issue, howeverm is with the FSU 'Noles which like someone above happen to be my favorite college football team. The Tallahassee Seminole tribes gave the University their permission to use that as their logo/mascot and are happy to have that image associated along with higher learning (I know you usually do not hear FSU and higher learning in the same sentence).
Same goes for the Utah Utes, the local tribes love that they are honored and worshipped by so many.
So what right does the NCAA have. besides being the governing body to moderate something like this? I could see them stepping in on it if a tribe was upset or felt offended by a certain mascot or nickname, but that is just not the case. Also the way I understand the rule is that while the NCAA set this ban it holds no merit during the regular season and only applies to NCAA sanctioned events such as bowl games or the NCAA March Madness tournament to name a few.
I am losing focus and ranting now, but it was a few years back I believe that the Utes even had the idea of changing their mascot or logo from the Utes on their jersey to something else, they presented this idea to the Ute tribal leaders who said they did not feel well about the interpretation of the new logo so the university left it alone. This should be up to the school and the tribe they are representing.
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