Penn State scorn versus Michigan State scorn

Or congress or a Huckabee

 

And even worse, why would the University of Michigan hire somebody involved, even remotely, in a huge scandal which has pretty much destroyed Michigan State?

You'd think U-M would be deliriously happy to remain utterly untouched in that whole mess, and allow Sparty to keep self-immolating from afar.

When U-M had its own little mini-scandal opening the position of an assistant gymnastics coach, you'd think high among the search requirements for the new hire would be: "no involvement ever in any scandal even remotely like the Larry Nassar scandal," much less the Larry Nassar scandal itself.

Oh well. You'd think Michigan State, which tried to set itself up as the conference rival of Penn State, would have paid enough attention to the Jerry Sandusky scandal to send out word throughout the athletic department to be extra wary of possible cases of sexual abuse by coaching staff, but apparently none of the Nassar stuff ever rang any warning bells for anybody.

 

Just read this, and it’s an excellent story. It really lays out how pernicious Nassar’s lies - about it being science and a medical treatment - became. He may even started to believe them for all we know. He was, and is, a depraved man.

 

John Engler, Michigan State’s interim president who last year falsely claimedthat a Larry Nassar victim got “kickbacks” from lawyers for encouraging other women to speak up about Nassar’s abuse, has now said that the women who Nassar assaulted are “enjoying” the spotlight.

“You’ve got people, they are hanging on and this has been … there are a lot of people who are touched by this, survivors who haven’t been in the spotlight,” Engler told the Detroit News on Friday. “In some ways, they have been able to deal with this better than the ones who’ve been in the spotlight who are still enjoying that moment at times, you know, the awards and recognition.”

https://deadspin.com/interim-msu-pr...BxiAOa-QWx3eUtDhSqHc6LWWe2ZUzGFVYRBAQ06GPRKIE

 

Engler's been a walking POS for 30 years and he hasn't changed

 

But MSU has always been clannish and clumsy
MSU's campus kicks U-M's ass
MSU is beautiful, with the Red Cedar River and botanical gardens dividing the campus, and expansive, with Grand River Ave neatly dividing the town and campus
UM feels like it was laid out by someone on acid
Town and campus are intertwined through Ann Arbor
But instead of extolling the great things 95 percent of American universities don't have, MSU always has had an inferiority complex against UM, which fought MSU's inclusion to the Big Ten
MSU voted for Ohio State to go to the 1973 Rose Bowl, which was more of a screw UM vote than anything else

 

Fatboy Engler's ass could be in the fire:

MSU board to meet Thursday, trustee says 'Engler's reign of terror is over'

 

This time they really really mean it:

Sources: MSU board has asked John Engler to resign as interim president

It's to be noted that Mosallam, the trustee leading the move to get rid of Engler, is a former football player under Perles (and Saban). So the jockocracy will continue.

 

Fatfuck resigns and whines.

Read John Engler's 11-page resignation letter sent to MSU's board

Inside-baseball footnote: The now-retired (due to age and health reasons) George Perles and his string-puller, Joel Ferguson, are both Democrats whose only priority on the board of trustees is/ was to perpetuate the jockocracy (Perles, of course, a quarter-century ago, personified it) and thus supported Engler.

 

Perles can't even slip into the good night before squeezing a final $200,000 debt write off out of MSU, with of course the help of his buddy Engler (who was scrambling to save his own ass). Maybe Perles threatened to jump to the Green Bay Packers again.

Perles resigned from MSU's board. Then a debt he owed was wiped out

 

Since Starman beat me to the Perles link, here's a Perles story
Perles was the first director of the Motor City Bowl, now the Quick Lane Bowl
At the news conference announcing the matchup (Mississippi vs, Marshall), I approached Perles for an interview
He said: "Sure, but could we move a few feet over this way?"
He wanted to sample the Swedish meatball tray while he talked to me
And he did.

 

OTL: Feds cite MSU with 'serious violations'

Including the "men's basketball coach."