Dumb. Dumber. Dumbest.

That Avalanche of Dumb coming out of East Lansing, Mich., has now reached Irwin Allen disaster-film proportions.

The latest outbreak of nitwittery comes from Michigan State trustee Joel Ferguson, who gave a radio interview the other day that plumbed new depths of cluelessness. First he said it only took about 10 minutes to decide on the disastrous vote of confidence for tainted president Lou Anna Simon. Then he scoffed at the notion that Michigan State's reputation was at all harmed by its sheltering of sexual predator Larry Nassar for two decades, saying "there's so many more things going on at the university than just this Nassar thing."

Dude. Dude, dude, dude.

Little truth bomb here for you, Joel: There is nothing going on at your university right now besides the Nassar Thing, because the Nassar Thing is defining Michigan State's image and will continue to define it as long as people like you remain so oblivious to that fact. Until you clean your house of the Nassar taint -- including jettisoning Simon, who's involved in the Nassar Thing to her eyeballs -- nobody's going to care how many games Tom Izzo's basketball team wins, or how many prestigious awards are bestowed upon your faculty, or how good Lou Anna Simon is at raising money.

Sorry, but nobody cares about that. They care about that parade of young women, confronting Nassar with what he did to them. They care about how some of them are still being billed by MSU for the appointments in which he abused them. They care that, outside the East Lansing bubble, the only image Michigan State has is as a facilitator of sexual abuse.

That isn't going to change until the people who have the power to do so change it. And it's pretty obvious those people aren't interested in doing so, despite mounting pressure from alumni and the student body.

To which the response seems to be, hey, it's only women's gymnastics. Right, Joel Ferguson?

"This is not Penn State," he said, laughing at the notion of Michigan State being investigated by the NCAA. "They were dealing with their football program. ... They're smart enough to know they're not competent to walk in here on this."

Um, Joel?

Wrong again, dude.

Update: As the Blob predicted would happen (because anyone who knows how these things work could have predicted it), MSU president Lou Anna Simon has resigned. Makes Ferguson and the rest of the board who foolishly backed her play look like even more of a clown show.