As if I needed another reason to be humiliated about ever going to Michigan State University, whacko airport-tantrum-throwing, cop-biting Economics professor John McCallie gives me yet another reason following his childish meltdown at the airport in Sarasota, Florida.
Per this Detroit Free Press story, the nutty professor began dumping trash from a concourse trash can looking for a baggage claim check that he'd apparently tossed out. When an airport police officer asked him what he was doing and told him to put the trash back in the can, McCallie wnet off his cams and began shouting obscenities and swinging the trash can at the officer. He then resisted arrest and actually bit--yes, bit--the police officer who was trying to handcuff him. He was finally subdued by officers using pressure points and the officer that he bit required a trip to the hospital. He's now out on bond with a pending trial date, and predictably, MSU is "standing behind him".
MSU could gain a lot of my lost respect for them back if they'd refrain from making statements until after he is tried, and if he's convicted they need to boot him out the door for embarrassing the school.
(Note to children and John McCallie: police officers are our friends. It's not nice to bite them.)
(Note #2--this time just to John McCallie: You got off lucky. Had you bitten me while I was cuffing you, you'd have been the hospital case.)
Anyway, for those interested, here's John's faculty homepage
Comments and recommendations for termination can also be e-mailed to the University Ombudsman at: ombud@msu.edu.
You do realize, O Keeper of the Black Shepard, who this man is married to? Yes, that's right - it's the very successful and universally beloved coach of the very successful women's basketball team at our wonderful University, Ms. Joanne P. McCallie. So the fact that he is a prof there is sort of like getting an honorary doctorate! And it's also why what you suggest will never happen.
ReplyDeleteHe is a VISITING professor. He was, in all likelihood, hired as part of the deal to bring Coach Joanne to MSU.
ReplyDeleteQuery: Is this a circumvention of the NCAA's compensation limits for coaches?
Query: Is this a circumvention of the NCAA's compensation limits for coaches?
ReplyDeleteNow there's a question that someone needs to pose in print, perhaps to the Lansing State Journal?
Mr. Owl: I understand that - it was kind of my point but I didn't make it very well. Sorry 'bout that
ReplyDeleteAs for compensation limits, I just don't think there are any after what Alabama is paying that lying stinking sack of Nick Saban to coach there. Not to mention all the raises Tom Izzo has gotten to stay here! Hiring a low-level visiting Prof is peanuts compared to Saban's salary.
And that sorry excuse for a newspaper we have in this town (the aforementioned "Stale Urinal") isn't about to go after Coach P on this one. It isn't her fault her husband is an idiot.
You write like you were a first hand witness. You've never known a cop to use excessive force?
ReplyDeleteGive the guy his day in court.
"Excessive force"? Heck, he only used a pressure point to gain control of the nutty professor. That's about as un-forceful as one can get. But no one disputes that the Mike Tyson of the Economics Department was told that he was under arrest and refused to cooperate or allow himself to be handcuffed, and that's where the problem really started.
ReplyDeleteI still have this urge to sit outside his classroom one of these days and sing "I fought the law and the law won..." a few times nice and loud.