Oladipo is NOT a History Scholar

By Jonnferrell -21 March 2013
71 Comments
- Basketball

I saw Oladipo being interviewed on the Big Ten Network at the tournament this afternoon. Someone must have asked him if he knew who James Madison was. He acted all smug and said that Madison was the guy who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Then he was all proud, thinking he had given the right answer. He looked like an idiot, then turned it around and asked the reporter, "Do you know what an Indiana Hoosier is?" The funny thing is, no one really knows what a Hoosier really is, but one thing we do know--a Hoosier is definitely NOT a history scholar.

740 on 21 Mar 2013 - 10:37pm #

that's so silly. everybody knows that james is dolly madison's husband, and is famous for perfecting various baked treats.

Jonnferrell on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:43am #

Exactly--and I think she's a famous country singer.

"I'm still hungry." --Brady Hoke

Bucks43201 on 21 Mar 2013 - 10:39pm #

Haaaa...Rhodes Scholar

"You win with people." - Woody Hayes

lamplighter on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:04am #

Dusty Rhodes or Jim?

Dr. Kenneth Noi... on 22 Mar 2013 - 6:18am #

or Randy?

Hovenaut on 22 Mar 2013 - 4:44pm #

Why that's.....

Crazy.

But that's how it goes......

"Success - it's what you do with what you got" - Woody Hayes

BED Staff on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:26pm #

Hovenaut, I'd upvote you a million times for this if I could.

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Hovenaut on 22 Mar 2013 - 6:23pm #

Thanks!

Ready to rock....LET'S GO BUCKS!!!!!

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Buckeyevstheworld on 21 Mar 2013 - 11:27pm #

He acted all smug and said that Madison was the guy who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.

Seriously? lol

"YOLO" = I'm about to do something extremely ignorant/stupid & I need an excuse to do it.

Jonnferrell on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:46am #

Yes, it was pretty pathetic. He really was proud of himself for that answer.

"I'm still hungry." --Brady Hoke

Citrus on 21 Mar 2013 - 11:57pm #

I don't think a person be allowed to graduate HS without knowing who Madison is. One of the points of a public education system is so that citizens know enough about government to properly participate in it. Not knowing Madison is a proxy for knowing nothing about the constitution.

William on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:44am #

In the words of BTO "You ain't seen nothin' yet."

ATT2121 on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:54am #

Damn, that's sad!

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Jesse Owens

William on 22 Mar 2013 - 1:01am #

I don't know what is more depressing about it, the fact that none of the Americans surveyed for the question mentioned Albania or Angola, or that the one chick said "Asia", freaking morons.

Squirrel Master on 22 Mar 2013 - 8:43am #

uh, I don't think saying Amsterdam is any better than saying Asia.

Run_Fido_Run on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:22am #

I don't know. When I was in Amsterdam, I thought that I'd been transported to a different planet, so maybe thinking of the place as its own country ain't so bad.

cajunbuckeye on 24 Mar 2013 - 11:48am #

HAhahahahahahah!! Bad fido! +100

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hodge on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:45am #

I'll be totally honest, I got Albania and Algeria, and then totally blanked. Glad I wasn't on the show.

741 on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:50pm #

I believe that U.S. Americans need more maps. Like the Iraq, and the Asian countries.

Earle on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:54pm #

See below: Great minds...

William on 22 Mar 2013 - 2:03pm #

I had Australia, Austria, Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Angola, Azerbaijan and Albania. Didn't even think of Algeria.

Citrus on 22 Mar 2013 - 2:42pm #

Ah, they survey a hundred people. Each person only gets one response it makes sense that only a few countries would be named.

Buckman on 22 Mar 2013 - 1:10am #

His reaction when she said "Asia" was priceless.

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Jonnferrell on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:52am #

"Didn't BTO deliver the Gettysburg Address?" --Victor Olidipo

"I'm still hungry." --Brady Hoke

Dr. Kenneth Noi... on 22 Mar 2013 - 6:23am #

Is it just me or is it impossible to watch J Peterman host a game show? I hear his voice and can only thing of him yelling at Costanza to give him Geroge's ATM code.

MN Buckeye on 23 Mar 2013 - 11:35am #

Saw John O'Hurley perform the role of Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago at the Ford Center in Chicago a few years back. He's got pretty good pipes.

Jonnferrell on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:49am #

"Constitution? What does the constitution have to do with it. This Hoosier thinks that you're making a federal case out of this, when actually it should be a civil case!" --Victor Olidipo

"I'm still hungry." --Brady Hoke

Citrus on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:53am #

You're not getting enough love for these. Pretty funny.

Hovenaut on 22 Mar 2013 - 7:13am #

Oh Oladipo.....no, just no.

"Success - it's what you do with what you got" - Woody Hayes

Citrus on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:59am #

ha.

I bet he asked her if she wanted ice cream and she said no. Then he got ice cream and she wanted some. "Oh I thought you didn't want ice cream." "I only want half" Well you know what. he wanted the whole thing. He would've bought you a whole cone and you coulda thrown away half of it (really he would've eaten one and a half).

The above scenario happens with me and dessert all the time.

Buckeyevstheworld on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:39pm #

The above scenario happens with me and dessert all the time.

That happens to me with everything.

"YOLO" = I'm about to do something extremely ignorant/stupid & I need an excuse to do it.

cajunbuckeye on 24 Mar 2013 - 11:51am #

You learn to give up the ice cream, or you'll get no "dessert" for the next two weeks.

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Jdadams01 on 22 Mar 2013 - 7:35am #

Let's be honest, how many people just googled James Madison?

Buckeyevstheworld on 22 Mar 2013 - 7:45am #

Some of us payed attention in history class.

We use to have test after test on the presidents in elementary.

"YOLO" = I'm about to do something extremely ignorant/stupid & I need an excuse to do it.

BUCK-I-FAN on 24 Mar 2013 - 11:24am #

Buckeyevstheworld I have to give you a hard time here. there is no such word as payed. it's paid.

Squirrel Master on 22 Mar 2013 - 8:48am #

I did, but I knew he was the 4th president, I didn't know he drafted the Constitution.

FYI, haven't even opened an american history book in perhaps 18 years. Doesn't make me an idiot for not knowing that.

Now Oladipo who is A) currently in college and just removed from HS and B) should have studied for these questions before the interview, is an idiot! If anything he should have said president. Even my dumb ass could remember that!

Jdadams01 on 22 Mar 2013 - 10:48am #

Exactly! I remembered he was president and worked on the constitution, but I thought he was fifth not fourth president. Also, I had forgotten how much he had to do with the Bill of Rights. Thank God for google.

Squirrel Master on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:11am #

I only knew that Madison was the 4th because I knew he came after the first 3 which were IMO the most important men in that era: George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. I have no idea who is where after that until Abraham Lincoln at #16 and Grover Cleveland was both the 22 and 24th. I actually can't remember without having to look it up what Obama is, 44th?

LMAO, I was right!

Run_Fido_Run on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:29am #

For me, it's easier to remember the first seven presidents - through Andrew Jackson. After that, I tend to lose track.

IMO, George Washington was the best of all-time!

Citrus on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:49am #

Perfectly honest. I am a law student and president of an org that uses Madison's profile as a logo. I am far more familiar with Madison as "Father of the Constitution " than as president. 4th you say? I tend to think of them grouped together and associated with certain times. I lose track. I am terrible with dates. Different strengths.

I think HS should teach students more about local government. Not to get political. Like this Stubenville thing, I can't tell you how many people asked me when the president or some other federal agency would get involved. That is is problem. If a person doesn't know who does what, they won't be able to interact with the government properly and they hold the wrong parts of government responsible. OK rant end.

Run_Fido_Run on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:15pm #

I agree, wholeheartedly. In high school, the history, politics, civics courses, etc., should involve a civics-oriented curriculum. The assumption would be that, say, 50 percent of the students would not go on to college. Thus, one of the important goals is to teach them about the foundational lessons in American history, citizenship, the Constitution, shared historical roots, etc.

BED Staff on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:34pm #

I know which organization that is. Member myself. Good on you for not breaking the political rule!

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Citrus on 23 Mar 2013 - 10:11am #

We are destined to run in to one another soon. Too many things in common.

johnblairgobucks on 22 Mar 2013 - 7:59am #

kind of helps to fill in some of the missing pieces as to why anyone would volunteer to play basketball for Tom Crean. The just don't know any better.

Oladipo probably thinks Crean's hair is alright, as well.

BED Staff on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:33pm #

"I happen to think my hair looks amazing." - Tom Crean

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Lawver_5 on 24 Mar 2013 - 12:06pm #

Hahaha love it!

sharks on 22 Mar 2013 - 8:11am #

If I recall correctly, a Hoosier is a term used to describe illiterate and backwoods (hillbilly) jail prisoners in the 1920's and 30's. I think other uses go back 150 years or more.

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Squirrel Master on 22 Mar 2013 - 8:50am #

I think the term originated when Indiana basketball players first started playing the game and someone asked "Hoosier point guard?"

Run_Fido_Run on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:11pm #

Along those lines, one explanation is that the term derived from hill country dialect (specifically, Cumberland England) and that it referred to rough hill folk. It could be either a compliment or an insult.

From an article in Indiana Alumni Magazine:

Throughout the early to mid-19th century, most of Indiana’s settlers were from the North Carolina Piedmont and the Upland South, which included Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.

BUCK-I-FAN on 24 Mar 2013 - 11:27am #

I thought a hoosier was a kentuckian who got lost on his way to Michigan.

ShowThemOhiosHere on 22 Mar 2013 - 10:40am #

LOL. What a doofus.

Class of 2010.

armybuckinva on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:22am #

Cody Zeller was the one that got all butt-hurt over the pop quiz and was the one who asked the reporter if he knew what a Hoosier was. Oladipo echoed the question. It's a very typical response from someone who was just made out to look foolish.

Jonnferrell on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:17pm #

I caught the interview in progress, so I'm not sure what happened with Zeller. All I know is Oladipo being all proud about knowing Madison wrote the emancipation proclamation. Even if you don't know Madison, don't you have some idea that Lincoln produced that? At least watch the movie--LOL.

"I'm still hungry." --Brady Hoke

NoVA Buckeye on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:24am #

Indiana basketball and JMU... two things I'm not very fond of

/Duff'd It

Earle on 22 Mar 2013 - 11:27am #

You know what they say: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to lose in the Regional Final to Miami.

At least that's what my bracket says.

hodge on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:10pm #

Aside from being the Father of the Constitution and the fourth President of the United States, James Madison also helped provide the basis for Judicial Review when he was petitioned by William Marbury to deliver him his Judicial appointment (Adams's famous "Midnight Appointments", made on his last night in office; Madison refused to deliver the rest of the appointments that had yet to go out). Chief Justice John Marshall (himself a Federalist, just like Adams and Marbury) ruled that the very act granting him his appointment was unconstitutional, and therefore--though Madison's refusal to deliver said appointments was illegal--his request for the Appointment was denied.

Citrus on 22 Mar 2013 - 2:36pm #

Ol' Marbury v Madison

Marbury really got screwed in that deal

jeremytwoface on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:33pm #

Anyone have the video or audio from the interview?

Earle on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:51pm #

I really wanted to post the clip from Miss Teen South Carolina in response to this, but I don't have the capability at the moment.

Maestro on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:54pm #

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_hWOj7ZnyE

vacuuming sucks

Earle on 22 Mar 2013 - 12:57pm #

To quote a couple of dudes who were also not history scholars, "Excellent!".

Run_Fido_Run on 22 Mar 2013 - 1:06pm #

Wisc appears to have visited the country of Amsterdam before playing in this game.

FloridaBuck on 22 Mar 2013 - 1:41pm #

City*

Edit: (sarcastic correction)

Doesntwork on 22 Mar 2013 - 2:01pm #

even if he didn't know Madison, shouldn't he have known Lincoln? If Madison wrote the Emancipation proclamation, what did Lincoln do...?

OSU_ALUM_05 on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:08pm #

helped draft the constitution, duh

BED Staff on 22 Mar 2013 - 5:35pm #

Founded the University in Nebraska! That's why it's called University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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3technique on 23 Mar 2013 - 11:45am #

Better to just smile and wave... I don't pretend to be a history buff but to not know madison was a president AND not know that Lincoln drafted the emancipation proclamation is pretty bad. Another reason our country is where it is(not a political statement,both parties suck), the low information voter...

Jonnferrell on 24 Mar 2013 - 9:06am #

"I think I won that little trivia challenge right there," Oladipo said, smiling.

A few minutes later, he discussed the surprise pop quiz in the Indiana locker room.

"I'm familiar with James Madison, George Mason, all those schools," said Oladipo, who grew up in Maryland. "It was pretty cool that I got all those questions right, but it was kind of upsetting that he didn't know what a Hoosier was. It's OK, though."

Even Hoosiers fight over what the meaning of the the word Hoosier really is. Unless the answer he was looking for was, "an overrated college basketball team that will lose in the elite eight, who is coached by a crazy psychopath." That would be a valid answer, and is probably the one he expected.

"I'm still hungry." --Brady Hoke

BED Staff on 24 Mar 2013 - 11:37am #

Tom Crean says:

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cajunbuckeye on 24 Mar 2013 - 11:59am #

Another classic 11 W thread. Thanks Oladipo for sleeping, skipping, staring out the window,etc. Whatever you did instead of learning, made this all possible.

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