Another perspective on the Fighting Sioux nickname and the NCAA...

I really like what this guys says and it would appear that there is a growing dislike for how the NCAA has handled this situation.

David Coulson, Executive Editor/Managing Partner College Sporting News --- Emmert was a breath of fresh air that afternoon as he outlined his plans for a more forthright NCAA. The one-time Montana State administrator even stayed around to watch Eastern Washington beat Delaware in the championship game.

But after reading about how the NCAA is treating the University of North Dakota, it looks like things are pretty much status quo for this most frustrating of organizations.

Let me get this straight, the NCAA cannot find a way to stand up to Cam Newton as his father tries to sell him off to the highest bidder, but it thinks it is important to bother UND about its supposedly politically insensitive nickname of the Fighting Sioux.

Nothing bothers me much more than hypocrisy and no organization epitomizes that term more than the NCAA, just as it has since the days of its first president, Walter Byers.

Its previous leader, the late Miles Brand, might have accomplished a lot during his tenure, particularly in the area of academic reform, but one of the biggest wastes of time during those years was the NCAA's attack on Native American nicknames.

And it appears this Gestapo-like siege isn't going to change under Emmert, the organization's fifth executive director.

Some petty, dipstick of a bureaucrat named Bernard Franklin — officially an "executive vice president" with the NCAA — announced this week that it didn't matter that the state of North Dakota had passed legislation requiring North Dakota to use its historical nickname of the Fighting Sioux, because the NCAA was ready to penalized UND anyway.

First off, as a means of full disclosure, I have some Cherokee blood running through my veins, so I know from history what it means to have a Native American group face discrimination.

If a team in North Carolina, or some other state with historical status wants to honor my Cherokee roots with a team moniker, I have zero problem with it, just as I don't mind Notre Dame honoring some of my other ancestors by calling themselves the Fighting Irish.