North Dakota Fighting NCAA Dimwits

It's hard to go more than thirty days with the NCAA....without any major negative press.  This week?  The NCAA got all upset with the University of North Dakota.  The University has decided, at least for the moment.....to go with the regular normal name of their school in athletic competition.....the Fighting Sioux. The NCAA came out and said that they'd forfeit any wins, if their players, the cheerleaders, band-members or even coaches....wore or displayed anything pertaining to the Fighting Sioux.

This entire discussion with the NCAA's strategy....goes back a number of years....where they simply said that anything having to deal in a hostile fashion to the American Indians....is a bad thing.

This was going to just slide off and become a non-issue until spring of last year....when the state legislature approved a law that requiring the university to use the Fighting Sioux nickname.  This brought everything up for another round of NCAA discussions.

If the school had losers sports teams.....none of this would matter.  But the truth is that they actually have men and women's teams in various sports....which win.

I sat and pondered over this....and finally decided what ought to be done.  Rename the teams.  They should become the University of North Dakota Fighting NCAA Dimwits.

How quick could the NCAA react to this?  I suspect there is not a single rule in the book that would forbid any university from doing this, so they'd have to invent a rule out of thin air.  They would look like absolute fools while in the process of doing this.

How many fans across the nation would jump on board and buy t-shirts and support the North Dakota Fight NCAA Dimwits?  Millions.  People from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama would come out and support the North Dakota team.

The problem I see is that some Indians support the use of the name for the North Dakota team, and consider it a positive message in representing the Sioux nation.  For that reason, the NCAA really comes off looking stupid.

So onward, the Fighting NCAA Dimwits!