Dickinson Dissociates Himself from Podcast Izzo/Hitler Comments
This seems like a good idea.
"Ann Arbor — Michigan center Hunter Dickinson said he was part of a decision to remove a published Barstool Sports podcast in which one of his co-hosts compared Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo to Adolf Hitler."
January 5th, 2023 at 9:20 AM ^
Some extra flavor for Saturday. Delicious.
January 5th, 2023 at 9:23 AM ^
Smart young man!
January 5th, 2023 at 9:26 AM ^
I understand this, but not fully understand. So is Hunter a guest on the pod, and the comments were made by the Barstool asshats before/after Hunter was on? Neither the OP, nor the DetNews article clearly describes what happened.
Hunter is a trash talker on the court, but I can't see him making comments like this. I'm glad he quickly disassociated himself with it, though...
January 5th, 2023 at 9:27 AM ^
It's his podcast and one of his cohosts said it. It's also not clear if he was actually on this episode (can't say I tune in, he says a bunch of dumb stuff on there...guaranteeing win over Arizona State by 20, trashing Wisconsin, etc.).
January 5th, 2023 at 9:36 AM ^
Thanks for the clarification! Sometimes, I need a little extra 'splainin to...
January 5th, 2023 at 4:59 PM ^
From the few pieces of the podcast I’ve heard, Hunters trash talking definitely extends beyond the court. He actually puts his foot in his mouth quite a bit given his overall results this year.
January 5th, 2023 at 9:28 AM ^
This paragraph did make me chuckle. I mean, was it necessary? Ha.
"Hitler and his accomplices systematically murdered 6 million Jews in Europe. Izzo is a Basketball Hall of Fame coach with one national championship and eight Final Four appearances."
January 5th, 2023 at 9:42 AM ^
I'm reminded of a movie called "The Unexpected Bar Mitzvah" (if you hate Jews and love Jesus or Tim Tebow, this movie is right up your alley). A Jewish teenager learns about the Holocaust, which is definitely late for any kid but especially Jewish kids. The whole movie you wonder when they're going to drop the facade and go into outright Holocaust denial, but it doesn't happen. I suspect they forgot to film that scene.
January 5th, 2023 at 9:43 AM ^
same/same /s
Seriously people are way to flipant to throw out Hitler and Nazi labels. Glad to see Hunter recognize this and quickly move away from it.
I also get he likes to be the vilan, but not sure some of the stuff he says on his pod is great for the team or program. Opposing fans are going to bring it anyway, but have to think they will have a little extra juice when Michigan comes to town.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:10 AM ^
I kinda like him being honest about the Wisconsin game and calling the Wisconsin team scumbags.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:42 AM ^
not as much as luigi likes to be the vilan
January 5th, 2023 at 10:01 AM ^
As well as the deaths of 50 million other people.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:08 AM ^
Ohhhh. THAT Hitler.
January 5th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Yes, I am guessing HD is not binging on Hill Street Blues, and just got to the narcoleptic comic.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:35 AM ^
they failed to mention that hitler had no basketball coaching ability what so ever....
January 5th, 2023 at 12:21 PM ^
Indeed, if I'm not mistaken, Hitler didn't have a single Sweet Sixteen appearance.
January 5th, 2023 at 12:26 PM ^
But Izzo only has one more national championship than Hitler
January 5th, 2023 at 2:08 PM ^
Yep, came here to post this. I'm hoping it was the result of some editor asking for more context and the author snarkily writing that.
January 5th, 2023 at 9:37 AM ^
This is the sort of bad judgement grey area where I find it hard to judge college athletes. On the one hand it's easy for grown adults to judge anything affiliated with Barstool as puerile garbage (and thus know to avoid it), but on the other hand 18-21 year old males tend to be especially attracted to puerile garbage. Hopefully Hunter learns from the experience to be careful who he is seen publicly associating with.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:17 AM ^
I thought I had a pretty decent vocabulary, but I had to look up puerile. You must be an LSA grad!
January 5th, 2023 at 10:01 AM ^
If you are in a place where you need to specify that you "disagree with the hitler comments", then I think its time to re-evaluate where you are.
Not a great headline - even if its to say "im not a part of that"
January 5th, 2023 at 10:05 AM ^
Glad the media is getting to the bottom of the important stories! The context of the statement was that Izzo treats his players like a dictator. Still shouldn’t be comparing anyone to Hitler.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:09 AM ^
Good call by HD. I do like the Buddy the Elf reference tho!
January 5th, 2023 at 10:12 AM ^
I'd also just generally not go on any Barstool podcasts (I guess "Pardon My Take" (which seems to at least understand they're a national brand and can't be complete idiots) isn't that bad), but at this point it's clear that particular pock on sports media isn't going anywhere.
Anyway, I guess it's a good think his is backing away from it but that's literally the least he could do.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:23 AM ^
I use to enjoy Spittin Chiclets but that place quickly got just as bad as any other Barstool disaster.
Fuck those guys.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:54 AM ^
As someone who has tuned in only recently for a couple of their interviews, what was it like previously, and what changed from when you started listening?
January 5th, 2023 at 11:28 AM ^
Yeah, I long ago stopped visiting the site and listened to PMT a couple years ago when they had Harbaugh on, but it was run by an absolutely ogre and seems to retain that sentiment even with new management. And their school-related twitter feeds I sometimes come across are run by, bar none, the fucking dumbest, most awful type of fan possible.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:18 AM ^
How about he disassociate himself with Barstool while he’s at it?
January 5th, 2023 at 11:21 AM ^
Yeah, this requires larger action than "Izzo isn't remotely comparable to Hitler" which, of course.
Hunter styles himself as someone who wants to be active in getting attention (and money) & be a personality outside of the court, which is fine, but that comes with responsibility -- he needs to disassociate himself completely from that clown organization.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:39 AM ^
Well that's good I guess. Now let's practice grabbing rebounds around 6'4" players.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:40 AM ^
I always thought of Izzo as more like Stalin. Truman supposedly referred to him as "Little Joe" or something like that (Stalin was around 5'5").
January 5th, 2023 at 10:41 AM ^
Dickinson has repeatedly made an ass of himself on that podcast. He really is a player that is very easy to dislike
January 5th, 2023 at 10:44 AM ^
The “MSU students go there because they couldn’t get into Michigan” is a tired, stupid take.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:40 AM ^
I mean there's no need to say it, but by and large it is true. It's true by the admission statistics and it's true by how some MSU alumni absolutely feel the need to brag about they got into Michigan, but chose to go to MSU instead as some sort of flex
January 5th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
Yeah, agitator on the court I was okay with. Opening your mouth at every opportunity, not so much.
January 5th, 2023 at 1:16 PM ^
His on court behavior is pretty annoying too. Its one thing to talk shit, its another to complain about ever single call on you and do at least one hook and hold flop to try to get a call every game. He is good at basketball but I don't like watching him all that much even on Michigan. If he was at duke he would be grayson allen level disliked
January 5th, 2023 at 11:02 AM ^
Tend to agree. Can't remember another "star" player at Michigan that I felt this way about.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:46 AM ^
Well both are real jerks.
January 5th, 2023 at 10:46 AM ^
#UnexpectedNorm
January 5th, 2023 at 11:02 AM ^
Hopefully Hunter also disassociates himself from Skeeps for the rest of the season.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:43 AM ^
What’s the story here?
January 5th, 2023 at 5:54 PM ^
Dude loves Skeeps a bit too much
January 5th, 2023 at 11:11 AM ^
Cool story.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:21 AM ^
Izzo is a featherless biped. Just like Hitler!
January 5th, 2023 at 11:25 AM ^
There's a reason schools used to control what interviews and with who players could do.
January 5th, 2023 at 12:09 PM ^
Hitler and his accomplices systematically murdered 6 million Jews in Europe. Izzo is a Basketball Hall of Fame coach with one national championship and eight Final Four appearances.
Thanks a ton, detnews.com, for that important bit of context. I wasn't sure what all the fuss was about until I read this part of the article....
/s, just in case
January 5th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Barstool Sports. Yeah. 0% surprised.
If Hunter played for MSU, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. we would hate him
January 5th, 2023 at 12:45 PM ^
More cowbell, less Hitler.
January 5th, 2023 at 1:09 PM ^
Probably a weird time to mention Dave from Barstool was doing a pizza review at the restaurant I was at the other day.