The NCAA has removed Florida State from the list of schools with "hostile or abusive" American Indian mascots.

"Their letter says basically that as long as we have the support of the Seminoles, we are OK," FSU president T.K. Wetherell said. "We are basically saying the same thing. If we didn't have that, if the tribe doesn't want us to do this, we aren't going to do it. We've said that for 20 years."

It's unclear what will happen to schools like Illinois (which has no identifiable tribe to approve or disapprove) or North Dakota (where one Sioux tribe supports and one opposes the mascot).