No Reason to Praise the Trustees

Journal-Sentinel sports writer Bob Wolfley sees no reason to give much credit to Marquette’s Board of Trustees for junking the “Gold” nickname.

The trustees are the ones who created the debacle in the first place.

They are the ones who created the conditions that now call for emergency measures.

They are the ones who dropped the banana peel and then went ahead and slipped on it.

You wouldn’t praise the makers of the Hindenburg after the crash if the manufacturers promised to return to the drawing board to design a safer dirigible.

And further:

To praise it for doing what overwhelming numbers in the community wanted it to do is like praising the bank teller who hands over the bag of money to a gun-toting robber.

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Hey, when the angry villagers - wielding shovels, axes and torches - show up at your house and demand the Gold has to go, you give them the Gold, the silver, the platinum and whatever else they want. To think of yourself as “flexible” or “wise” in this case is delusional.

Wolfley thinks that Marquette should never have dropped “Warriors,” asking “who’s to say the next nickname won’t be as lame the previous two? The trend suggests it is getting worse, not better.”

This underlines a cultural conflict in the ranks of the mainstream media in which the politically correct members of the Journal-Sentinel Editorial Board think “Warriors” is evil, but the politically incorrect sports writers don’t see it that way.