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The Current Crisis
The Politically Correct and Altercationists Anonymous
The late Myles Brand’s NCAA remains on the warpath.
WASHINGTON — I am rather sorry that Myles Brand has passed on to his reward. Brand is the fellow who as president of Indiana University gained enormous respect among Liberals for ruining the basketball program of that basketball-loving university in that basketball-loving state. He fired basketball coach Bob Knight, one of the sport’s greatest coaches, for a minor altercation that was an obvious setup. Knight had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the institution and overseen an athletic program that insisted on academic seriousness from its players as well as competitiveness. Under Knight IU won three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships and 11 conference championships. The basketball program has yet to recover, and I very much doubt that its players match the academic records of Knight’s teams.
Admittedly the hot-tempered Knight was controversial. He got into rows with coaches, journalists, players, referees, spectators — actually anyone who was available. Yet, by the time Brand fired him, Knight had taken heed of those who admonished him to manage his temper better and was a much more irenic citizen. Call him a recovering altercationist. Perhaps Knight had enrolled in Altercationists Anonymous (AA). His forced departure ignited angry student-body demonstrations, disrupting the university and causing Brand to seek police protection.
A couple of years later Brand became president of the NCAA, where he created still more feuding. Under his leadership, the NCAA attempted to ban the use of American Indian names as school nicknames or mascots. The ensuing wrangling continues to this day. By edict of the NCAA Executive Committee, NCAA-sanctioned championships were not to be held on campuses whose mascots or nicknames derived from some aspect of American Indian heritage. Thus William and Mary should not be known as the Indians and settled for the nickname the Tribe. Arkansas State should not be known as the Indians and changed its nickname to Red Wolves — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals be damned. The University of Illinois’ logo until recently showed the stern countenance of an Indian chieftain in full headdress, representing its nickname, the Fighting Illini — the Illini being a local Indian tribe. Somehow the university was allowed to keep the nickname but had to cashier the handsome logo for a large orange “I” that looks like an industrial caution sign.
Now American Indians in the great state of North Dakota have stood up for good sense and respect for their tradition. Since the NCAA’s fussiness, members of the Spirit Lake Tribe of the Sioux Nation have resisted attempts at the University of North Dakota to expurgate its nickname, the Fighting Sioux. I wish the argumentative Brand were around to observe the spectacle and possibly to contemplate the nonsensical debate his meddling has caused, not only at the University of North Dakota but at the aforementioned universities and at a dozen other colleges.
“When you hear them announce the name at the start of a hockey game [UND has an enthusiasm for hockey not unlike IU’s for basketball], it gives you goose bumps,” Frank Black Cloud — not surprisingly a Sioux — told the New York Times. ”They are putting us on a pinnacle.” Well, of course they are. Why would a university, or for that matter a sports team, adopt as a nickname or a mascot something that was not inspiring? The politically correct fussbudgets and various malcontents insist that these Indian remembrances are hostile references or somehow insulting to Indians. Actually, as anyone with any sense knows, they are acknowledgments of the tribes’ dignity and original inhabitancy of the land. Extirpate their names and it is just another extirpation of their history. Doing so is what one might expect from Americans who hated the Indians, and there was a time when many Americans did. Adopting references to them is a way to honor them. Black Cloud is right.
There are many underappreciated motivations in history. As mentioned in this column some months ago, one is boredom. Certainly another is quarrelsomeness. Brand and many like him claim to high-mindedness, but au fond they simply are quarrelsome and enjoy stirring things up. Brand from time to time explained his actions as motivated by a love of learning, but I have reviewed his record and though he lived much of his life in academe there is no evidence he loved learning or was in any way learned. The two controversies I have discussed here are not even very intelligent.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Glen H| 12.17.09 @ 7:49AM
I stand resolutely in favor of traditional Indian team nicknames and against thuggish bullies like Bobby Knight. I guess that leaves me thinking Myles Brand batted .500.
Holly | 12.18.09 @ 12:12PM
I went to IU in the early 90's and Bobby Knight was not a bully. He was a coach that insisted on discipline during the era of the Fab Five. The players were still polite and did as they were told, as opposed to pretty much every other NCAA team in the Big Ten. There were no drugs or shenanigans from the players. The players didn't walk all over the coach like the Fab Five did. Brand destroyed the basketball program at IU. He also eliminated athletic enthusiasm at the school. Not surprising because IU is one of the quiet universities that has managed to mastermind the PC movement and indoctrinate its' entire student body into pansexualism. From its center in the US, that indoctrinated student body has spread its errors of liberalism, etc. to the country....
In our rather effiminate world, any man who actually speaks his mind is considered a bully.
Mark| 12.19.09 @ 9:33AM
It is quite probable that if you were to come face to face with Coach Knight (or any real man) or a wild Indian, you would simply swoon and wet yourself.
RustyG| 12.17.09 @ 8:02AM
"His forced departure ignited angry student-body demonstrations, disrupting the university and causing Brand to seek police protection. " ........and applause from everyone not an IU fan, glad to see the loudmouth bully finally get his.
Brian| 12.18.09 @ 11:39AM
I liked Bobby Knight and I wasn't an Indiana fan.
He graduated his players, they became better men for playing for him and he never had any NCAA violations.
I also like he got limp wristed liberal poofs panties in a bunch as well.
The Bishop| 12.17.09 @ 8:43AM
C'mon Rusty and Glen, Bobby Knight was a wonderful counter-balance at a university ensconced in a museum-like way the sexual perversity of Alfred Kinsey. There was enough testosterone in Knight to keep the Kinsey Institute supplied long after Medicare runs out. Having thus vented my Hoosier rant, I long for the day when political correctness goes the way of Myles Brand. But, alas, I fear I shall be gone long before that. Too bad.
JP| 12.17.09 @ 9:18AM
Knight, as is usual for many great leaders was a contradiction. Here are his obvious failings:
1)Yes, he could be a monsterous bully -especially towards referees and reporters.
2)He has an obvious problem with his anger
3)He is very, very opininated
4)He doesn't take defeat lightly
Here are his good points:
1)He is probably the last of the great basketball innovators.
2)He has fierce loyalty to friends, coaches and players who went through his system. Once a player graduates, he has a great friend for life.
3)He is very generous with his time and money
4)He always set high standards both on and off the court.
5)He was a fierce competitor
Coach Knight changed the way the game was played and coached. Whether it was his game prep, his offensive and defensives systems, or his demands for prefection, no one can deny that outside of coaches like Iba and Wooden Knight towers above all other college coaches. The one flaw he did have was to change his philsophy once the shot-clock and three point shot were instituted. Of course coach Knight wouldn't be Coach Knight if he did change. Also, no one would argue that Knight didn't get 100% from his players. Despite being out recruited by the likes of Kentucky, North Carolina, Michigan, and Duke, IU teams were always competitive. His 1974-1977 teams had only 1 High School All American. Yet, those teams had 2 Final 4 and 1 National Champion (and the 1975-1976 teams only lost 1 game).
Knights generosity and loyalty to both players and coaches is legendary. He truly cared about his players -esp after they graduated. No, he wasn't perfect. And yes, his flaws were big flaws. But, other great leaders had flaws too (Patton, Sherman, Reagan, and Woody Hayes to name a few).
One other thing people should note. Knight always played by the rules. His players almost always graduated. And 95% of those players who suffered under him say that playing for Knight was one of the greatest privleges of thier life.
Tony in Central PA| 12.17.09 @ 9:53AM
Reggie Bush in his family were paid several hundred thousand dollars by USC boosters during his playing days. Back when this story first broke, I went on the USC open message boards and the posters there were confidently bragging that the NCAA would " do nothing ". They brought up the Charles Woodson scandal at Michigan and said the NCAA had established a precedent of largely ignoring things like this and would have no standing to pursue the matter with Bush at USC without making it appear like an arbitrary enforcement policy. The USC fans appear to have been correct in their judgment.
Certainly, there have been other schools and situations similar to these incidents. The most famous case involved SMU getting the " Death Penalty " in the mid - 80's. I don't think anybody could make the case that any other school would receive a similar penalty today for similar, or even worse, conduct.
There are so many things the NCAA could do to better serve the student athlete. Freshman ineligibility in all varsity sports would be the biggest thing. Both Joe Paterno and Dean Smith have said this repeatedly. Further limtation of practice times and unsupervised workouts would also help student athletes leave schools with a better education. Seasons could be shortened or at least prevented from being extended. Drug testing should be mandatory for all major sport athletes. The NCAA doesn't want to do any of these things because it serves at the pleasure of the university presidents and that pleasure involves make every single cent possible off of these athletes.
So the NCAA gets involved in the politically correct monomaina of mascot purges to maintain its public profile and sense of worth. This is an organization that either needs to be reformed or eliminated.
brown| 2.23.10 @ 11:53AM
I heard the story about Myles Brand firing basket ball coach Bob Knight and it's a really shocking one to hear as Bob himself is such a great coach .being the chairman of Indiana university doesn't give him the authority to do whatever he likes. I hope Mr. Bob will be reelected to his former position as he is a wonderful sports man himself as well as a great coach. Commercial Playground Equipment
TennesseeVolunteer| 12.17.09 @ 10:14AM
As a former athletic director at a NCAA school, I can tell you the NCAA has become left of the Democratic party if that is possible. My first national meeting, I went eagerly to the early seminars to learn more about college athletics, particularly in the areas of my interest.
I was absolutely schocked that fully 75% of the seminars were dedicated to gay/lesbian issues or womens rights/Title IX issues. I am all for fairness and equity but was sickened by this obvious slant in available information sessions.
When going to the actual meetings, i saw that almost all of the committees were mostly female with agendas that had nothing to do with the equity and care of all athletes but mostly those that were benefited from their personal biases.
After that meeting, I went only for my conference meeting and the day of voting on NCAA issues. the rest of it was mostly a waste.
By the way, my University and my administration bent over backwards to make sure our courageous and hard working women athletes were treated fairly (our only national championship wasin a women sport) and all NCAA guidelines were exceeded or met.
Myles Brand did nothing for college athletics.
TURK| 12.17.09 @ 10:25AM
JP said it all---almost. Knight's detractors were prissy-chickified husks of what used to be men. Yes, Knight had faults. But his faults were not comparable to the scum trying to destroy this brave and great nation so they can sit atop the destruction. I'll bet the dweebs commenting before (and probably after) JP just love that bunch of Marxists and their ruinous political correctness.
Doctor Right| 12.17.09 @ 11:11AM
I matriculated at the uber-Liberal University Of Massachusetts-Amherst in the 1980's when political correctness was at it's zenith, running amok and completely under the radar of most people in the pre-internet age.
The mascot of UMass is the Minuteman, or, the plural "Minutemen". OK...That's cool. The word "Minutemen" obviously has a significant historical connection to the state...It's masculine, military-esque, and inspiring...Not bad, at all.
But then I found out that for years, the mascot of UMass had been the 'Redmen", obviously in homage to the native American image that adorns the state flag, but taht sometime in the early 70's, left-wing agitators (aren't they always) had protested, and insisted that the name be changed to something that didn't insult native Americans...Thus, the Minutemen.
However, the story doesn't stop there. The sizeable and vocal radical feminist contingent at UMass (always easy to spot; batique shirts, no make-up, permanent angry scowls) objected, and insisted that ALL women's sports teams at UMass be called "The Minutewomen". Now, gender accuracy aside, just what the Hell is a "Minutewoman"?? Historically speaking, there was no such thing. While not discounting the contribution of women to the cause of the American Revolution, very few (if any) of them carried a musket against the Red-Coats, and they weren't called "Minutewomen"...They were still called "Minutemen". "Lady Minutemen" was ruled-out as an alternative because the word "Lady", of course, has far too much "patriarchal baggage".
But the lunacy continued. The sizeable and vocal LESBIAN contingent at UMass (even easier to spot...short, butchy hair, NO make-up, mom-jeans, comfy shoes, hairy legs and hairy arm-pits...But strangely, much happier than the Radical Feminists...) insisted that the spelling of "women" be "wymyn", or "wimmen" bcause, otherwise, their was too much "...men" in "women".
Cooler heads prevailed, and the Queen's English was maintained. Had we a King instead of a feminine Queen, the outcome may have been different.
As for myself, I was always suprised that an ultra-lefty, America-hating school that boasted of the nation's most renowned MARXIST economics department (even after the Cold War was over, and capitalism had won) would choose an Americam military icon as their mascot.
But, of course, in the early 90's, there was a movement started to abolish "Minutemen" for that very reason. My recollection is that the preferred choice was "Huskies"...That is, until the sizeable, vocal PETA-contingent chimed in...
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 12.17.09 @ 11:43AM
A little off topic, I know, but the doctor's item brought to mind a particularly egregious and funny bit of political correctness and women.
A while back, when woman's basketball was becoming more and more available on mainstream media, two females on ESPN were doing a woman's game and they insisted, instead of calling it "man-to-man" defense, on calling it "person-to-person" defense. I believe the play-by-play person was Pam "I never met a woman I didn't like" Ward. Even the ever image conscious suits at the World Wide Leader told them, "Hey, just say man-to-man." And they did and do now. And it must gall them.
Jimmy| 12.21.09 @ 5:15PM
Our local high school boys are called the Minutemen. The girls are called the Minutemaids. I bet the gals at Amherst would love that!!!!
Thaddeus Vannice| 12.17.09 @ 12:10PM
For more than two decades, Knight raised $1 million plus per year from Alumni specifically for the Main IU Library. I dare say he accounted for a lot more education at IUB than M brand ever did.
Pete| 12.17.09 @ 12:26PM
The "Illini" originally meant "group" or "men" and indicated a group of separate tribes, including the Kaskaskia, Maroa, Cahokia, Peoria, Tamaroa, Tapouaro, Coiracoentanon, Espeminka, Moingwena, Chinkoa, Chepoussa, and the Michigamea.
In time, some call themselves the Illini tribe, which are the Peorias in Oklahoma.
It's really stupid. How can a state or a city be named after a "group" of indians, oops natives, but a team cannot?
I gave up on reasoning with the NCAA long ago. It's a minor league where MENS football and basketball pay for everything else. End the charade, form a real minor league.
The next "USFL" should take on colleges, not the NFL. Pay the guys real cash, and pay their tuition at a nearby school. If they don't want to go to class, fine.
brown| 2.24.10 @ 1:27PM
Even though with Brands effectiveness as a leader and fundraiser, his firing of bobby knight caused his popularity among students and alumni to wane. Brands action is not explainable in anyways I think he should have rectified his decision a long ago itself. Knight being one of the most controversial coaches of all time, still commands a following among fans of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball program's think brand should have forgiven him.
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A| 12.17.09 @ 12:52PM
Whatever else negative that could be and has been said about Coach Knight, there are three facts that remain indisputable.
1) He played by the rules and ran a clean program.
2) His players took their coursework seriously and graduated.
3) He won.
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Evanston2| 12.17.09 @ 1:52PM
Also, Knight never hid who he was. If you signed up to play for him, you knew you were in for 100%. And parents and his graduates loved him for it. What did Myles Brand do? Instead of dealing effectively with academic and recruiting scandals to ensure fairness and make sure kids got something for their time, he decided to expand the reach of "government" to impose his ideals on others. What a scumbag.
Anthony| 12.17.09 @ 2:56PM
Sorry to hear of Mr. Brand's passing. It must have been a great disappointment that Mr. Brand never got the chance to work his magic at Duke University.
Curmudgeon| 12.17.09 @ 2:06PM
Right,and real estate developers honour the past by naming the group of stores and restaurants "Fairgrounds Plaza" for the race track at the fairgrounds previously occupying that space. Or name the tract mansion housing after the farm where it was built: Ettle Farm Estates,Willow Run,Big Oak Farms,etc. Quite an honour.
Brian| 12.17.09 @ 3:02PM
As an American of Irish descent, if the Fighting Illini has to go, so should Notre Dame's Fighting Irish nickname. It does nothing but perpetuate negative stereotypes of dumb, drunken, brawling Irishmen. Also, the leprechaun mascot is ridiculous. Perhaps they should be renamed the Fighting Catholics (remember the crusades?); or as Stanford did, simply the Gold; or maybe the Lucky Charms.
Frank Bernard| 12.17.09 @ 3:07PM
Curiously, just last night I was sitting in a sports bar having a beer with an old friend from North Dakota. Since I was an athlete at UND in the sixties I was a little curious about the current state of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname dustup. It turns out that UND gets to keep the nickname and logo if both Sioux tribal groups in NDak ((Standing Rock and Spirit Lake) agree. The Spirit Lake crowd held a vote of all the voting elgible residents and approved the continued use of the nickname. The Standing Rock tribal council head had vigorously opposed the use of the name and refused to schedule a vote. He, in turn, was voted out of office this fall, and the new council chairman wants a little more time to schedule a vote. It appears that many of the local Sioux are proud of the university's use of the name. I must also say that the University of North Dakota has graduated several hundred Native American physicians and other medical professionals from the medical school there. Go Sioux!
Gary| 12.17.09 @ 3:32PM
"Go Sioux" would also be a fit rallying cry for the UND law school squad.
Anthony| 12.17.09 @ 3:45PM
I could be wrong about this, but that little twerp who shouted out "Hey Knight",which started the imbroglio that ultimately led to Bobby's departure from I.U., became an assistant D.A. to Mike Nifong.
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.17.09 @ 4:13PM
Yo0u guys arguing about a stupid looser when our country is inj the sh_tter...just makes me want to puke.
Who..........WHO......... gives a DARN about this jerk?
(except tail-gate junkies)
Beer For My Horses| 12.17.09 @ 5:17PM
Now, Ken, just chill out. You'll have many opportunities to vent your spleen on other issues.
brutus6| 12.18.09 @ 12:49AM
I.U.'s loss was TTU's gain.
somnolence| 12.17.09 @ 6:42PM
Bob Knight's demeanor pales to that of the soft-spoken John Wooden, who was the greatest coach of all time. I have never seen a video or heard of any UCLA player who was yelled at by Wooden. And remember, hoosiers, Wooden was the true Indiana native.
JP| 12.17.09 @ 10:27PM
One thing that comes up behind the scenes concerning Wooden was recruiting and the graduation rate of his players - esp concerning those players recruited in the late 60s through mid 70s. UCLA had some of the most outstanding athletes that any school could hope for during those years; something Knight could only dream about. And how many of those athletes would have tolerated the standards Knight set for his players? I know Walton quipped a number of time that he never would have played for someone like Knight. Larry Bird left IU before 2 weeks of practice was completed.
DaveS| 12.17.09 @ 6:47PM
When the Giants-Eagles game started this past Sunday, the players were shown (as is custom) on-screen and they announce what school they come from. An offensive lineman for the Giants always says he's from U-Illinois by saying something containing the term 'chief illini' - or something that makes it clear he's still fond of that horse-riding chief of a mascot.
Richard Baker| 12.17.09 @ 8:09PM
These childish fools need to get out of our lives. Have we lost all backbone as a nation when this kind of meddling is even taken the least bit seriously? Tell the NCAA to take a hike and start another college association. Or have the effeminized staff and faculties at these schools become totally cowardly? Do the men at these institutions wear lace panties?
brown| 2.24.10 @ 1:31PM
Brand was president of Indiana University, a campus institution of higher education. Brand may be best known for firing coach Bobby Knight. Reactions to the firing were varied; public opinion was split evenly with strong feelings one way or the other among virtually everyone. However I am strongly against his decisions.
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Pete | 12.17.09 @ 9:43PM
Wooden?
He didn't need to pay his players at UCLA ... he had Sam Gilbert do it.
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George| 12.17.09 @ 11:41PM
The irony with regard to the NCAA is that its headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana. Should it not get the names of the city and the state changed before causing colleges to bow to its political correctness?
Brian| 12.18.09 @ 2:18PM
How about Injunapples, Injunanna?
Or better yet, Cow Town, Cow State USA.
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Mark| 12.18.09 @ 10:51AM
George has got it right. The obvious irony of a bunch of white guys sitting around Indiannapolis Indiana carping about Illinois and the Illini was totally lost on those politically correct bozos.
Randy Walker| 12.18.09 @ 11:50AM
"When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past; I want that they should bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass."
Bob Knight
MikeZim| 12.18.09 @ 5:14PM
Just for the record, the reason the University of Illinois was "somehow" able to keep the nickname "Fighting Illini" was that the University was able to show that the nickname predated the use of Indian imagery in the school's history. Therefore, it was decided "Illini" was a nickname (a la "Hoosier") for someone from Illinois. There was and is no "Illini tribe"; there was a loose confederation of tribes in the area known as Illiniwek. Of course, this is the origin of the state name, so perhaps they should outlaw the name "Illinois" instead.
Faffnir| 12.18.09 @ 9:11PM
Late and off-topic, I offer my apologies, but isn't the NCAA headquartered in Indianapolis "City of the Indians", Indiana "Land of the Indians"?
Bets| 12.18.09 @ 10:42PM
I approached Coach Knight at O'Hare for an autograph for my husband (Bobby fan) and daughter who plays ball. He was both magnanimous and gracious, considering I was interrupting his date with a Cinnabon!
Richard Baker| 12.19.09 @ 9:11AM
Say what you will but Knight had a waaay higher graduation rate for his players than Bobby Bowden. Ok, Patton was a jerk sometimes but every soldier I've ever met from WWII was proud to have served under him and still says with pride "I was with Patton." Knight seems to have instilled the same pride in most, if not all, of his former players. Have we become a nation of prissies?
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