Instead of facing the many serious issues in college sports, NCAA officials have chosen to focus on team mascots.

What a bunch of hooey!

At a time when drugs, phony grades, recruiting violations, payoffs, gambling, and runaway, uncontrolled spending are soiling the image of supposedly amateur collegiate sports, a number of sanctimonious college presidents and chancellors have chosen to show their toughness and commitment to cleaning up sports by announcing a ban on the use of American Indian nicknames and mascots by NCAA teams in postseason tournaments.

What a joke!

Why don’t these chancellors and presidents, who serve on the NCAA executive committee, get serious and really do something that will merit the respect of the public? College and professional sports need to be cleaned up, but, so far, there’s been a lot of self-serving talk and little meaningful action.

Now, these college executives want to show their muscle, demonstrate they mean business and are cracking down, so they announced their policy of prohibiting NCAA teams in postseason tournaments from using any nickname or logo considered racially or ethnically “hostile” or “abusive” by the NCAA.

Football teams wouldn’t be affected, because there is no official NCAA tournament, and at least one exception was noted – for the North Carolina-Pembroke “Braves,” because the school historically has had a high percentage of American Indian students.

Again, what a joke.

Myles Brand, NCAA president, and his elite, handpicked group of cronies and “yes” men, need to get serious.