(06-20-2020 03:35 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-20-2020 12:42 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Even if/when a university changes its name, it takes years (even decades) for a rebranding to take effect. For example, at Marquette, many older alumni still call the teams the Warriors, before moving to the Gold briefly, followed by the Golden Eagles. At some point, those alumni/fans will die out and only people will associate with Golden Eagles - but that is years away.

I get the fight the PC crowd is pursuing, but I've always been confused from it (with athletic names) because you will still have fans and alumni associate and use the former names as a source of pride (even if it is deemed inappropriate). You can change the name, but you cannot cancel or eliminate those memories, and you especially can't eliminate the associations for many years to completely get the public perception away.

FWIW, I would have much rather had MU keep the Warriors name and instead just eliminate the Native American association. However, MU leadership wanted complete break to forever dissociate itself from any negative or any inappropriate connection down the road.

Marquette had perhaps the stupidest name change ever.

And as anti-PC as I am, I don't understand how Washington is still the Redskins.

Because the statute of limitations of offense has passed. The name is 90 years old, how can one begin to be offended now?