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Engler Out at MSU

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Engler Out at MSU

Post by screen glare » Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:45 pm

Can’t understand placing no empathy Engler in MSU leadership position when great sensitivity was required due to the gymnastics doctor’s sex crimes. Sickening Engler statement that only made victims and their families feel worse.
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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Deleted User 8570 » Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:57 pm

screen glare wrote:
Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:45 pm
Can’t understand placing no empathy Engler in MSU leadership position when great sensitivity was required due to the gymnastics doctor’s sex crimes. Sickening Engler statements -that only made victims and their families feel worse.
Engler was a washed up has been anyways... he wasn’t even that good of a governor either... I didn’t really get why they picked him myself...



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Deleted User 24 » Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:05 pm

MSU has done everything wrong until now. I hope this starts turning the ship around.



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A piece of the MSU pie

Post by Deleted User 14896 » Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:24 am

I fully expected Engler to be a short timer at MSU.
When it was announced he would be interim president, I figured he just dropped by for a lifelong stipend.
I'm sure if some media outlet put forth the effort to look into it, they would find he is leaving with something like Simon's golden parachute. A nice pre-arranged financial package, tickets to all the games, etc.



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by TC Shuts Up » Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:11 am

Mike Oxlong wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:24 am
I fully expected Engler to be a short timer at MSU.
When it was announced he would be interim president, I figured he just dropped by for a lifelong stipend.
I'm sure if some media outlet put forth the effort to look into it, they would find he is leaving with something like Simon's golden parachute. A nice pre-arranged financial package, tickets to all the games, etc.
How convenient that a Socialist leaning Liberal Arts University, heavily dominated by Democrats, like MSU, with all their tolerance of deviant sexual behavior, like Larry Nasser and MSU, and like Jerry Sandusky and Penn State, can scapegoat a RINO like John Engler, in order to paint all Republicans with a broad brush and then tar and feather them.


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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Mr.Transistor » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:56 am

MSU has totally bumbled this every step of the way. I cannot believe how oblivious they are to the sensitivity of the situation. In addition I don't know if I'm wrong but I feel as if they have got a bit of a free pass from the Michigan media. I think Mike Valenti has been one of the media members that have held their feet to the fire.



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:12 am

I'm confused as to why John Engler is a "RINO" in your eyes, TC Shuts Up.

I will say Engler should've kept his mouth shut during his time at MSU. He stuck his foot in his own mouth on many, many occasions. I can appreciate his frustration, as many of the survivors and reform-minded individuals were on his @ss the moment he walked in the door, but he crossed the line with his rhetoric on multiple occasions.

In hindsight, he should've been hired in an advisory or czar-type role instead of being handed the title of "Interim President." He also made a terrible error in judgment by eliminating the fund for counseling. The optics of that decision just look bad. (He's also not very good at math, evidently. The settlement was 42.5x the size of the balance remaining in the counseling fund, not 425x as he stated.)

He was not the right person to serve as de facto spokesperson during this time of crisis.

I do agree with screen glare that the quip he made to the Detroit News editorial board was pretty disgusting.



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Y M Ionhere » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:35 am

TC Shuts Up wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:11 am
Mike Oxlong wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:24 am
I fully expected Engler to be a short timer at MSU.
When it was announced he would be interim president, I figured he just dropped by for a lifelong stipend.
I'm sure if some media outlet put forth the effort to look into it, they would find he is leaving with something like Simon's golden parachute. A nice pre-arranged financial package, tickets to all the games, etc.
How convenient that a Socialist leaning Liberal Arts University, heavily dominated by Democrats, like MSU, with all their tolerance of deviant sexual behavior, like Larry Nasser and MSU, and like Jerry Sandusky and Penn State, can scapegoat a RINO like John Engler, in order to paint all Republicans with a broad brush and then tar and feather them.
I came here to speculate the same thing. Public universities are hostile and intolerant of any views outside of the far-left ideology they indoctrinate and push. It seemed very strange that they would choose an unpopular, but well-known, former Republican governor for the position. Yeah, he sounds like a jerk in some cases. It also sounds like a lot of the opposition to him was purely partisan. Public Universities dont even want Republicans as faculty members, so putting one in that top spot is possibly a setup. Make all Republicans look bad by promoting an old, cranky washed-up former governor to a spot where they can find any excuse to destroy him.



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Deleted User 8570 » Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:51 am

Y M Ionhere wrote:
Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:35 am
TC Shuts Up wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:11 am
Mike Oxlong wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:24 am
I fully expected Engler to be a short timer at MSU.
When it was announced he would be interim president, I figured he just dropped by for a lifelong stipend.
I'm sure if some media outlet put forth the effort to look into it, they would find he is leaving with something like Simon's golden parachute. A nice pre-arranged financial package, tickets to all the games, etc.
How convenient that a Socialist leaning Liberal Arts University, heavily dominated by Democrats, like MSU, with all their tolerance of deviant sexual behavior, like Larry Nasser and MSU, and like Jerry Sandusky and Penn State, can scapegoat a RINO like John Engler, in order to paint all Republicans with a broad brush and then tar and feather them.
I came here to speculate the same thing. Public universities are hostile and intolerant of any views outside of the far-left ideology they indoctrinate and push. It seemed very strange that they would choose an unpopular, but well-known, former Republican governor for the position. Yeah, he sounds like a jerk in some cases. It also sounds like a lot of the opposition to him was purely partisan. Public Universities dont even want Republicans as faculty members, so putting one in that top spot is possibly a setup. Make all Republicans look bad by promoting an old, cranky washed-up former governor to a spot where they can find any excuse to destroy him.
The antidote to all that is simple... don’t be an idiot...



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by audiophile » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:50 pm

Obama said we had 57 states. He must have been a dreaming about a Kerry-Heinz ticket.


Arguing over an aural typo of 42.5 vs 425...what's the point? :8)


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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Y M Ionhere » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:56 pm

NS8401 wrote:
Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:51 am
Y M Ionhere wrote:
Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:35 am
TC Shuts Up wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:11 am
Mike Oxlong wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:24 am
I fully expected Engler to be a short timer at MSU.
When it was announced he would be interim president, I figured he just dropped by for a lifelong stipend.
I'm sure if some media outlet put forth the effort to look into it, they would find he is leaving with something like Simon's golden parachute. A nice pre-arranged financial package, tickets to all the games, etc.
How convenient that a Socialist leaning Liberal Arts University, heavily dominated by Democrats, like MSU, with all their tolerance of deviant sexual behavior, like Larry Nasser and MSU, and like Jerry Sandusky and Penn State, can scapegoat a RINO like John Engler, in order to paint all Republicans with a broad brush and then tar and feather them.
I came here to speculate the same thing. Public universities are hostile and intolerant of any views outside of the far-left ideology they indoctrinate and push. It seemed very strange that they would choose an unpopular, but well-known, former Republican governor for the position. Yeah, he sounds like a jerk in some cases. It also sounds like a lot of the opposition to him was purely partisan. Public Universities dont even want Republicans as faculty members, so putting one in that top spot is possibly a setup. Make all Republicans look bad by promoting an old, cranky washed-up former governor to a spot where they can find any excuse to destroy him.
The antidote to all that is simple... don’t be an idiot...
Answer this: why would they hire an idiot to begin with? We know who and how he is. Hes been a very public figure here. They had to have known he was boorish. Hes no stranger to Michiganders.



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Re: Engler Out at MSU

Post by Deleted User 14896 » Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:39 am

I still stand by my first post in this thread.
Engler was appointed to get his face in the trough.
He knew he would be a short-timer. The people that appointed him knew he would be a short-timer.
Just enough time to saddle up to the golden tittie, and milk some lifelong benefits out of the MSU cash cow.
Intentionally sticking his foot in his mouth, as some of you say, so the resignation has justification.
Just a good ol' boy with more connections than Greyhound getting took care of.
All planned out by all the parties involved.



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