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ESPN Reportedly Not Planning on Punishing Lou Holtz for His Hitler Comments

Oct 18, 2008 – 5:15 PM
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Will Brinson

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ESPN has set a precedent for suspending its writers, commentators and personalities when they make stupid references to Adolf Hitler on air or in print. So, one would expect them to at the very least suspend Lou Holtz for a week or two of college football coverage following his Hitler - Rich Rodriguez analogy.

But, per MDS at College Football Talk, ESPN sources are saying no suspension is forthcoming.
A source at ESPN tells me that the Worldwide Leader does not plan to discipline college football analyst Lou Holtz for saying, "Hitler was a great leader, too."

Per the source, ESPN considers Holtz's on-air apology to be sufficient.
I'm not so offended by Holtz' statements that I want him to get booted from the WWL for a week or two, but I wouldn't mind seeing it just so, again, people will stop doing this. (Yes, "this" means "referencing Hitler".)

Also, I'm one of those people who are really annoyed by the whole Dr. Holtz skits, so I wouldn't mind catching a break for a week or two on that as well. Oh yeah, and if I was Jemele Hill, I'd be freaking teed off that Holtz wasn't getting suspended.
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