$250 a night? Frick, you can barely find a hotel in DUBUQUE for less than that on a weekend.
Public records advocates sue Iowa State over details of Dublin football game
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Everyone in this horrible state has always been out for ISU…. and kissing the a** of Iowa…. it’s shameful. Always trying to bring us down.
The U of I would love nothing more than for us to fail. They were all laughing when they thought we were headed to the Mountain West years ago.
F Iowa! I could never for the life of me understand why any true ISU fan would ever root for Iowa in anything? All these…. “Well I cheer for Iowa when they aren’t playing ISU!” fans are only hurting ISU. They want to end us…. why support that at all!
The U of I would love nothing more than for us to fail. They were all laughing when they thought we were headed to the Mountain West years ago.
F Iowa! I could never for the life of me understand why any true ISU fan would ever root for Iowa in anything? All these…. “Well I cheer for Iowa when they aren’t playing ISU!” fans are only hurting ISU. They want to end us…. why support that at all!
There is no law saying the AD can't bring booster and/or whoever they wish on athletic trips. Even back in my day we'd have numerous non-football staff (including donors) on our bowl trips and some other games.
The fact the article calls out specifically "a dietician", "an announcer" and "an ISU police officer" tells you they have no clue what they are talking about. The dietician is part of the football staff, the announcer is John Walters who does the radio play by play and the ISU police officer is the SAME officer that protected coach Mac back when I was playing.
It's a waste of the time records request trying to make something out of nothing.
If they'd just complied with this request, it would be a nothingburger...
Exactly this. I highly doubt anything was out of the normal or done illegally. Just an idiotic decision to delay getting them the information, and then going out of your way to hide the information. Meanwhile, the other team who played in the game turned over all the information quickly and unredacted.
Perception. First impressions always shape opinions more than raw facts. When it looks like you're trying to hide something, this is the outcome you will get.
My main issue is what I would describes as the laborious effort to create a scandalous tone in the article which reflects poorly on journalism in general.
No writer wants to spend a ton of time tracking down public records to just admit there's no "there" there, but sometimes that's what's required. To leave a bunch of inference to impropriety without delivering on any makes it easy to question the motives of the writer and the Gazette unfortunately.
No writer wants to spend a ton of time tracking down public records to just admit there's no "there" there, but sometimes that's what's required. To leave a bunch of inference to impropriety without delivering on any makes it easy to question the motives of the writer and the Gazette unfortunately.
Yes, sounds like we are creating an easily solved problem....which gives the appearance of a bigger problem. Transparency is good right?
I assure you it isn't anywhere near the most chaotic its has been. ISU has just been more successful and is receiving more scrutiny.
How do you know its making something out of nothing, when ISU refuses to release the records, which they are required to do by state law?
Just comply with the request and it will all go away. For far too long in this state, public institutions have not been following the law and refusing to release information. If there is nothing to hide, then release the records and show they did nothing wrong. If you really think this is about a dietician, an announcer working the game and ISU security you are wrong. All of those people would be part of the football staff and would be fine, but how many others, got a free vacation from this is what they want to know,
Writes a column for Iowa Capital Dispatch. Mostly, he’s affiliated with Iowa Freedom of information Council. I believe he’s from Bloomfield. Might have been a writer years ago. He helps newspapers navigate rules of covering courts.
Not sure of his connection to Bloomfield, but his reports are in the local paper one or twice a month over issues exactly like this, a pubic institution refusing to make information public.
U of I has record debts, doesn't pay contractors, discrimination lawsuits up the a**..... but hey.... squirrel.... look over here.... ISU is horrible because of some technicality on meeting a deadline.
Requesting FOIA records of UNI’s AD expenditures makes way more sense since they’re subsidized by the state tax payers.
Yup. Embarrassing that ISU let it come to this. They're a public institution and they know how this works.
I’ve worked with Randy Evans on a few things as part of the media. Nice guy and sometimes helpful. My impression of him is that he has an overinflated ego of himself and he likes to grab low hanging fruit to make himself look high and mighty that he really cares about the little guy. However, there are certain things he will not touch. He has his own biases, like all of us.
You're telling me Head Coach Matt Campbell was on that plane? The rot goes straight to the top!
Not sure why so many people are up in arms about this entire episode, way to much "tribe mentality" going on. ISU is a public institution and therefore by law must release all public records which they are required to do, ISU is refusing to do this. The governor and the legislature has been doing the exact same things lately, refusing to release records regarding funding and where the money went.
Are there cases of abusing the opens record law, sure, but in many cases, it's those in power abusing the system to provide favors or favorable treatment to outside groups. It's always a good idea to get that information out the public in my mind. If ISU did something wrong here, then the paperwork will show it. A lot of times the coverup or refusal to release the materials is worse than what they did in the first place.
Are there cases of abusing the opens record law, sure, but in many cases, it's those in power abusing the system to provide favors or favorable treatment to outside groups. It's always a good idea to get that information out the public in my mind. If ISU did something wrong here, then the paperwork will show it. A lot of times the coverup or refusal to release the materials is worse than what they did in the first place.
Randy Evans is part of the age group that believes any money spent on Iowa State athletics is a waste of money that needs to be scrutinized, but believes that U of I athletics is part of the state’s “culture.” That’s the reason you won’t see the Gazette do very many FOIA requests against Iowa Athletics or U of I hospitals. They are the third rail of Iowa politics. Personally, we need to be transparent, but it cuts both ways.
