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Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« on: January 28, 2020, 09:46:30 AM »
... it seems:

https://lanthorn.com/73049/sports/inside-the-mind-of-gvsus-newest-offensive-coordinator/

This interview is getting a lot of attention for some reason:

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KV: So you graduated from Drury with a degree in History, you’re a history guy. If you could have dinner with three historical figures, living or dead, who would they be? And I’m ruling out football figures.

MB: This is probably not going to get a good review, but I’m going to say Adolf Hitler. It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can’t deny he wasn’t a great leader.

And now he's been suspended:
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/college-football-coach-suspended-adolph-hitler-dinner

I think the reason ought to be "gross idiocy". It seems he knew this was a BAD IDEAâ„¢, but he went ahead and said it anyway.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2020, 09:55:48 AM »
It would have been totally ok if he answered Stalin or Mao though.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2020, 10:17:49 AM »
As far as the MSM is concerned Hitler = Orange Man and we can't allow that now can we.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2020, 10:21:53 AM »
He should have just gone with Pol Pot, nobody would have known who he was talking about. ;)

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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2020, 10:33:48 AM »
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It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that.
Sounds like he may not know all that much about Hitler.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2020, 10:37:48 AM »
Wow... Visions of Marge Schott...
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2020, 10:49:27 AM »
Even if you did think Hitler was a good leader, would you really want to meet him?  I can think of other historical figures I would rather meet.  I could come up with a handful from that war.  
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2020, 10:51:20 AM »
"You can't be honest in public anymore."

I've often wondered what the individual steps are in the progress "upward" to the point where one can order that people be killed... even the people in one's immediate leadership circle.

Then I think of warm puppies and purry kitties and breakfast.

'Tis a puzzlement.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2020, 11:17:30 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on January 28, 2020, 10:49:27 AM
Even if you did think Hitler was a good leader, would you really want to meet him?  I can think of other historical figures I would rather meet.  I could come up with a handful from that war.  

IF you think Hitler was a good leader, you probably got your thoughts from Star Trek.

Honestly as a History Major, this guy should have had a list longer than his arm of people to meet before getting to Hitler. (If he did have the morbid curiosity to meet him.)
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2020, 11:23:14 AM »
Quote from: makattak on January 28, 2020, 11:17:30 AM
Honestly as a History Major, this guy should have had a list longer than his arm of people to meet before getting to Hitler. (If he did have the morbid curiosity to meet him.)

Just because he has the degree doesn't mean he has the knowledge.  His degree might have just been to "check the box" so he could get hired by someone.

I'll cut the guy some slack and assume he wasn't ready for a history question at a football meeting.  Also, he might not be the type of person who is good with names. 
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2020, 12:01:49 PM »
Any person in a university environment should know that the only acceptable answer is Che Guevara....

Although, to be honest, I'm actually a bit surprised that this wasn't more acceptable given the strong anti-Israel leanings that exist on many campuses today.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2020, 12:47:07 PM »
Quote from: makattak on January 28, 2020, 09:46:30 AM
... it seems:

https://lanthorn.com/73049/sports/inside-the-mind-of-gvsus-newest-offensive-coordinator/

This interview is getting a lot of attention for some reason:

And now he's been suspended:
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/college-football-coach-suspended-adolph-hitler-dinner

I think the reason ought to be "gross idiocy". It seems he knew this was a BAD IDEAâ„¢, but he went ahead and said it anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZKZ3C1ML8
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2020, 08:32:46 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 28, 2020, 12:01:49 PM
Although, to be honest, I'm actually a bit surprised that this wasn't more acceptable given the strong anti-Israel leanings that exist on many campuses today.
Ah ... so he could have gotten away with saying: "I would love to meet the true forefather of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement."
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2020, 08:49:02 AM »
I wouldn't mind meeting Hitler if only for the opportunity to lock him in a room with Stalin and then lose the key.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2020, 02:36:45 PM »
I don't know why the leftists objected - think about what Hitler was:

Socialist: Check
Vegetarian: Check
Animal lover: Check
Anti-Israeli: Check
Drug User: Check

With important boxes like these checked, you'd think the leftists would be more accepting of his murderously genocidal side. And even there, his body count lagged that of other leftist heroes, Stalin and Mao.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2020, 02:44:54 PM »
What do you expect, he's an offensive coordinator?  :P
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2020, 03:03:03 PM »
Quote from: HankB on January 30, 2020, 02:36:45 PM
I don't know why the leftists objected - think about what Hitler was:

Socialist: Check
Vegetarian: Check
Animal lover: Check
Anti-Israeli: Check
Drug User: Check

With important boxes like these checked, you'd think the leftists would be more accepting of his murderously genocidal side. And even there, his body count lagged that of other leftist heroes, Stalin and Mao.
Wasn't he also a former art student?
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2020, 03:36:45 PM »
I think it'd be fascinating to meet Hitler and have a candid conversation with him.  Find out how much he believed, versus how much was propaganda.  How much was expediency and how much was fanaticism/passion/dogmatic compulsion.

Of course the same goes for Stalin and Che and Pol Pot and Mao.  Or Pinochet.  Or let's just get savage and find out more about the minds of Hannibal and Genghis Khan. 

Hell, I'd love to put Washington on the hot seat over his role in the Revolution, his interests in whiskey distilleries, and his support over taxation of frontier moonshiners.

There are things to be learned from the minds of corrupt, bad, evil people of all stripes. [popcorn]
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2020, 04:17:03 PM »
Slightly off topic, just to broaden our viewpoint:

Death by Gun Control:

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm

Scroll down to chart.
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Re: Well, Offensive Coordinators aren't hired for their intelligence or judgement
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2020, 05:09:13 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on January 30, 2020, 03:36:45 PM
I think it'd be fascinating to meet Hitler and have a candid conversation with him.  Find out how much he believed, versus how much was propaganda.  How much was expediency and how much was fanaticism/passion/dogmatic compulsion.

Of course the same goes for Stalin and Che and Pol Pot and Mao.  Or Pinochet.  Or let's just get savage and find out more about the minds of Hannibal and Genghis Khan.  

Hell, I'd love to put Washington on the hot seat over his role in the Revolution, his interests in whiskey distilleries, and his support over taxation of frontier moonshiners.

There are things to be learned from the minds of corrupt, bad, evil people of all stripes. [popcorn]

Anyone here, besides me, remember Meeting of Minds? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_Minds
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