Non-Conference Scheduling rumors

[imanihonjin]

Angry Japanese Dude's name-vs-mascot logic reminds me of this gem from the Utah Utes wiki page:

Do you ever come up with anything original?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Angry Japanese Dude's name-vs-mascot logic reminds me of this gem from the Utah Utes wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Utes

During the 1980s the Crimson Warrior, a Caucasian horseman dressed in Indian costume, would ride onto the field before home football games and plant a lance into a bale of hay. The warrior was considered more a symbol of the school than a mascot.

[Moliere]

Here is what I don't understand about Wisconsin. They have a policy that they will not play teams with Native American mascots even when the tribe endorses using the mascot and they use the mascot respectfully. Yet, they are willing to play a school that supports denying basic human rights to individuals based on sexual orientation and actively promotes discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation.

I guess they tolerate bigots but don't tolerate racists, even if they are respectful racists.

[imanihonjin]

Not only do they play them, they are beating the crap out of them routinely for the last 20 years.

http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/series/wi/il.shtml

That is not very respectful.

No kidding. The Illini tribe must be pissed.

[imanihonjin]

Come on. I know you are smarter than this!

JL, stealing lines again. It's okay, you can just admit that for the second time today you had no idea what you were talking about.

[Jeff Lebowski]

So does Wisconsin forfeit all conference games against Illinois? Or is mpfunk wrong?

Not only do they play them, they are beating the crap out of them routinely for the last 20 years.

http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/series/wi/il.shtml

That is not very respectful.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think they already know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Illiniwek

Come on. I know you are smarter than this!

[TripletDaddy]

Somebody should notify the athletic department, ASAP!

http://fightingillini.com/

Jocelynn Birks named unanimous preseason all Big Ten. that is a big deal.

[imanihonjin]

Somebody should notify the athletic department, ASAP!

http://fightingillini.com/

I think they already know:

For more than two decades, Chief Illiniwek was the center of a controversy. At the root of the controversy is the view of several American Indian groups and supporters that the mascot was a misappropriation of indigenous cultural figures and rituals and that it perpetuated stereotypes about American Indian peoples. As a result of this controversy, the NCAA termed Chief Illiniwek a "hostile or abusive" mascot and image in August 2005[2] and banned the university from hosting postseason activities as long as it continued to use the mascot and symbol.

The University of Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek as mascot in 2007, with his last official performance on February 21, 2007.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Illiniwek

[Jeff Lebowski]

Illinois no longer has a Native American mascot.

Somebody should notify the athletic department, ASAP!

http://fightingillini.com/

[imanihonjin]

So does Wisconsin forfeit all conference games against Illinois? Or is mpfunk wrong?

Illinois no longer has a Native American mascot.

[TripletDaddy]

So does Wisconsin forfeit all conference games against Illinois? Or is mpfunk wrong?

Neither. Illini is not a reference to injuns!

[YOhio]

So does Wisconsin forfeit all conference games against Illinois? Or is mpfunk wrong?

[TripletDaddy]

Here is what I don't understand about Wisconsin. They have a policy that they will not play teams with Native American mascots even when the tribe endorses using the mascot and they use the mascot respectfully. Yet, they are willing to play a school that supports denying basic human rights to individuals based on sexual orientation and actively promotes discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation.

What if some gays endorse denying basic human rights to individuals based on sexual orientation and actively promoting discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation, as long as it is done respectfully?

[Jeff Lebowski]

That may be true, but you know that I'm right that it is a bizarre position to take and that what I say about BYU is accurate. I note that I did not get a logic fail on that post.

Definitely some logic there. But I will award you a hyperbole sticker: