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Grand Valley State OC Suspended for Saying He'd Like to Have Dinner With Adolf Hitler

By Will Coleman

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Ever wonder if an outside-the-box answer to an ice-breaker question can come back to bite you? Well, it can.

Grand Valley State University had announced Morris Berger as the football's team new offensive coordinator just last week, but an interview with the school paper's sports editor, Kellen Voss, has left Berger with practically zero job security. When asked to name three historical figures he'd pick to talk with over dinner, one of Berger's answers was... Adolf Hitler.

Voss ran with the interview as a Q&A story and had it published, thus outing Berger to the entire college football world.

Berger's answer is inexcusable, and despite his reasoning he deserves the punishment he's received. While Berger was surely confident in his job security and was trying to speak unfiltered, such an opinion has no place in public life.

The university announced Berger's suspension and an impending investigation Monday afternoon, claiming that his statements from the interview don't align with the school's values.