"Hitler was a great leader"

SoCal Spartan · 10-17-2008, 08:59 PM

Leadership is oozing from this guy.

Otterhound · 10-17-2008, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 02alumnus

How did this come up? Is there a video of this?!

Ol' Louie's not gonna survive this one, methinks. Even though he did accurately use one of the lesser definitions of the word "great," people are not going buy it.

If he does survive it, without a doubt, ESPN will force him to issue an explanation for his comment. How the hell in this day and age does a sane individual use a Hitler reference when discussing college football coaching leadership?

Barry Badrinath · 10-17-2008, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Otterhound

If he does survive it, without a doubt, ESPN will force him to issue an explanation for his comment. How the hell in this day and age does a sane individual use a Hitler reference when discussing college football coaching leadership?

I haven't heard any sane individuals use the example

takeownershiptoday · 10-17-2008, 09:05 PM

no way he really said that?

even if it was delivered with perfect sarcasm, you can't go there on a college football show. even if he apologizes at half time and rattles off some blah blah blah excuse, i hope he gets run for good and they make amends with Trev Alberts. Anyone that can remember Rece, Trev, and May remembers the glory days

RED CEDAR SASQUATCH · 10-17-2008, 09:06 PM

everyone calm the **** down.. it wasnt that bad..

david_vargas · 10-17-2008, 09:07 PM

How long until it is ok to name restaurants and stores after Hitler? I mean, after all, there seems to be a lot of restaurants/stores named after Genghis Khan across the USA and he was every bit as evil as Hitler was.

chitownsparty86 · 10-17-2008, 09:08 PM

Wow. Its pretty amazing how one wrong comment and you are probably out of a job.

vitocorleone · 10-17-2008, 09:10 PM

Wow.

I don't take offense to many things. I mean the vast majority of my friends at State just called me "jew" and I never took offense.

I always told them, any jew joke is fine by me, except the holocaust, that goes over the line.

Churchill wouldn't have worked as an example of a good leader?

What a joke.

Topopo · 10-17-2008, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by david_vargas

How long until it is ok to name restaurants and stores after Hitler? I mean, after all, there seems to be a lot of restaurants/stores named after Genghis Khan across the USA and he was every bit as evil as Hitler was.

Dude 8% of the world is a direct descendent of Genghis Khan.

Rashomon · 10-17-2008, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by 277Gunson

He'll get a free pass because he is senile.

BTW, Hitler was a great leader, but he was PURE EVIL! Why the HELL would you use Hitler as an example?? Aren't there PLENTY of great leaders in history that didn't try to wipe out an entire race and take over the world?

I would suggest that great leaders lead people to do great things. By that definition Hitler was the opposite of a great leader.

Rashomon · 10-17-2008, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by david_vargas

How long until it is ok to name restaurants and stores after Hitler? I mean, after all, there seems to be a lot of restaurants/stores named after Genghis Khan across the USA and he was every bit as evil as Hitler was.

That is debatable on many levels.

02alumnus · 10-17-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by david_vargas

How long until it is ok to name restaurants and stores after Hitler? I mean, after all, there seems to be a lot of restaurants/stores named after Genghis Khan across the USA and he was every bit as evil as Hitler was.

Well, Mongolians have better cuisine than Germans do in my book, so that might have something to do with it.

Edit: Well, that and the fact that there aren't many people alive that had an immediate family member killed by Genghis Kahn, as far as I know.

Barry Badrinath · 10-17-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by 02alumnus

Well, Mongolians have better cuisine than Germans do in my book, so that might have something to do with it.

Sauerkraut? Beer? Sausage? come on dude!

Venice Spartan · 10-17-2008, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Robert Scott

I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't make it to the end of the show.

Halftime and no Lou?

I wouldn't be surprised if Security has already lead him from the building with his **** in a box

Vince of 231 · 10-17-2008, 09:20 PM

Does this mean we finally get to plant our flag in Lou's fired carcass?

Barry Badrinath · 10-17-2008, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Venice Spartan

Halftime and no Lou?

I wouldn't be surprised if Security has already lead him from the building with his **** in a box

ISparticus · 10-17-2008, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Vince of 231

Does this mean we finally get to plant our flag in Lou's fired carcass?

Only if you email enough.

02alumnus · 10-17-2008, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by twebmsu

Sauerkraut? Beer? Sausage? come on dude!

Okay, hold on.

I wasn't including beer when I said "cuisine." I grew up in Frankenmuth; I love bratwurst and sauerkraut, but have you ever had liverwurst? How 'bout that horrid Stollen bread crap? For every good German food, there's three bad ones, I swear.

Vinnie Boombatz · 10-17-2008, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by RED CEDAR SASQUATCH

everyone calm the **** down.. it wasnt that bad..

It's not, but we hate Lou Holtz so we can overreact and make ESPN think more and more people are extremely offended to get his ass canned.

Barry Badrinath · 10-17-2008, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 02alumnus

Okay, hold on.

I wasn't including beer when I said "cuisine." I grew up in Frankenmuth; I love bratwurst and sauerkraut, but have you ever had liverwurst? How 'bout that horrid Stollen bread crap? For every good German food, there's three bad ones, I swear.

yea Bronner's! My grandpa was good friends with Wally Bronner... being from Saginaw, I've made many a trip to the Muth

Big Bank Hank · 10-17-2008, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by david_vargas

How long until it is ok to name restaurants and stores after Hitler? I mean, after all, there seems to be a lot of restaurants/stores named after Genghis Khan across the USA and he was every bit as evil as Hitler was.

277Gunson · 10-17-2008, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Rashomon

I would suggest that great leaders lead people to do great things. By that definition Hitler was the opposite of a great leader.

No, it meant that he was great at leading. So, are you saying that his top General, Rommel, wasn't a great leader too?

You don't have to do GOOD things to be a great leader. All you have to do is lead. I didn't say Hitler was a great person, but a great leader, which he was. He is possibly the biggest POS to have ever walked the Earth, but that is besides the point.

Jason Grillis Sofa · 10-17-2008, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by chitownsparty86

Wow. Its pretty amazing how one wrong comment and you are probably out of a job.

One?

Sid Farkus · 10-17-2008, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Robert Scott

According to Lou.

Further proof of Godwin's Law in action.....

Rashomon · 10-17-2008, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by 277Gunson

No, it meant that he was great at leading. So, are you saying that his top General, Rommel, wasn't a great leader too?

You don't have to do GOOD things to be a great leader. All you have to do is lead. I didn't say Hitler was a great person, but a great leader, which he was. He is possibly the biggest POS to have ever walked the Earth, but that is besides the point.

Well, he certainly got people to follow him. I guess I just define "leader" in a different way. That being said, I'm not sure what I would call Hitler. A great fascist, populist politician and propagandist? Maybe, but I wouldn't call him a leader.

semantics I guess.