OT: Stinging Article about Engler's "Leadership"
Article on Yahoo discussing the ridiculousness of Engler's behavior before and during the most recent Board Meeting. I believe outside pressure is necessary to force change. The media can keep this nightmare in the news cycle long enough to force politicians and voters to enact real change...starting with cleaning house at the top.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/ridiculous-larry-nassar-board-meeting-mich…
I am sorry I have but one Upvote to give , in this instance .
They want nothing more than this story to go away since they know that alienating the sparty readership will reduce already falling circulation and, in the case of tv, viewership. Case in point, on wdiv news last night the MSU hearing was like the fourth of fifth story.
What an arrogant heartless asshole. Can't wait till Engler goes down too.
April 15th, 2018 at 12:34 AM ^
You know it's game over when Valenti is turning on you.
have done nothing. The professors have worked in that town and ignored headlines for 2 decades. Sorry, but "oh the horror" doesn't really cut it now. There are those who were not aware of course and I'll assume your friend was one of them. I don't intend or mean to dump on your or your friend, but "the vast majority" has gone to work, collected their checks and turned a blind eye. This hadn't existed in a vacuum.
April 15th, 2018 at 12:05 AM ^
Just curious, what two decades worth of headlines are you talking about? Yes, a lot has come out in the past year or so, but just as an example, there was far more publicity and headlines about Payne and Appling befriending a little girl with cancer and what pillars of the community they were than anything negative about them or any other basketball players. Yes, there were people who did know (or at least should have known) some of what was going on, but they covered it up. Almost none of the sexual assaults and abuses that are leading to all this current public outcry were making headlines until recently.
Most of the professors in the University have absolutely nothing to do with the athletic department or Larry Nassar. Acting like most of them are bad eggs is just ridiculous.
How the hell is Engler still in a position of power? That is pure insanity.
that could apply his/her political weight to help mitigate MSU's exposure, instead they just brought in someone w/immense weight that has made matters worse
Engler appears devoid of compassion and empathy - two concepts that should have been the foundation of MSU's "response" (to the victims) from the get-go
I am completely fine fat shaming that POS in addition to shaming him for everything else.
The Wall Street Journal has picked up the story as well.
‘Give me a number’: Woman says MSU interim president offered secret settlement in Nassar sex-abuse suit https://t.co/TQp4Pq9m2s
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 14, 2018
April 15th, 2018 at 12:59 AM ^
an incompetent, tone deaf, feckless Board.
He has astonishingly managed to outdo all of the other imbeciles in power before him, a truly dubious achievement. This encounter sounds stranger than fiction. An overwritten movie villain could not come off as crass, inconsiderate, foolish, nasty, and small-minded as Engler did.
He will be gone, and soon. I know MSU has proven to be the worst at managing this crisis, but even they will succomb to the inevitable just end of interim president Engler.
thrown on the Sparty dumpster fire
April 14th, 2018 at 10:33 PM ^
as defending MSU's honor and seeking to limit the damage financially that it faces going forward.
Attempting to silence a survivor at a public meeting is just a death knell for this administration. And the only reason this doesn't generate national headlines is because of our idiot president hogging media attention.
I mean internalizing all this negativity at the expense of those victimized does nothing to salve any wounds or change perception. How can Engler be viewed as anything other than what he is, a partisan with an agenda?
The idea that a tuition and state tax increase ought to pay for the massive legal debt that the university now faces from the flood of filed civil action against it is yet another example of passing the blame and punishing the public without acknowledging school financial culpability.
Why doesn't Engler promote a billion dollar donor campaign urging MSU alums to reach deep to pay for the legal damages? Because he knows no alum wants to be connected supporting the financial fallout from incompetent leadership and knowing conspiracy that augmented the Nasser scandal and enabled other Title iX violations now coming to light.