Obviously, if you received a penalty in this round, you need to find out what's wrong.

As a national association, we believe that mascots, nicknames or images deemed hostile or abusive in terms of race, ethnicity or national origin should not be visible at the championships we control.

We believe hostile or abusive nicknames are troubling to us and it can't continue. We're trying to send a message, very strongly, saying that these mascots are not appropriate for NCAA championships.

Obviously, if you received a penalty in this round, you need to find out what's wrong. Those institutions need to get better and get better quick because those adjustments will get smaller and eventually go away.

All of American society will benefit from what we have already done, which is to call attention to negative stereotyping of Indians. One of the things I've learned in the last three months is how insidiously Indian stereotyping has filtered into the general American consciousness. We would never allow stereotyping of other racial or ethnic groups in the way that we allow the stereotypes of Indians.

That was new evidence to me and it was very helpful. Coming from the chairman of the tribe, we found that to be very compelling.