Hell, this probably could have been handled without a press release at all, with the message being directed to the members of both bands via the email lists both bands likely maintain for their members.
Iowa State and Iowa issue joint statement on marching bands
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Hell, this probably could have been handled without a press release at all, with the message being directed to the members of both bands via the email lists both bands likely maintain for their members.
I liked how the joint statement made reference to Iowa City as well, though. At least it reinforced it happened to ISU's band as well.
1. Barta comes out firing with no preparation or facts.
2. JP calls him out on his BS at the same time acknowledges the behavior isn't appropriate and they will do what they can to investigate.
3. Barta gets knocked on his ass with blowback.
4. JP helps Barta save face by coming up with a joint statement.
So funny how Barta went from guns ablazin' to co-authoring a statement admitting Iowa has fault in it too lol
2. JP calls him out on his BS at the same time acknowledges the behavior isn't appropriate and they will do what they can to investigate.
3. Barta gets knocked on his ass with blowback.
4. JP helps Barta save face by coming up with a joint statement.
So funny how Barta went from guns ablazin' to co-authoring a statement admitting Iowa has fault in it too lol
Barta is a petty petty man. He sees the writing on the wall though I can assure everyone of that. I know I beat this to death but DSM metro growth + ISU growth = Oh ****! For U of I. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive either.
This looks like the face of your neighbor that would turn you into the city/association for your dog pooping in their yard one time instead of just confronting you about it.
Margaret McCaffrey makes him wear a dog collar and leash when he comes over to their house.
I was mid Diet Coke sip. You owe me a new iPhone screen you jerk.
I tagged along with my parents to almost all football games as a kid. But they never let me go to the Iowa game, and I remember always being upset about it.
Now I understand.
They are the worst. Sunday I took my 4 year old around town for a few things. He dressed himself in Iowa State clothes. Some idiot bends over and yells "Go Hawks" in his face. WTF is wrong with people?!?!
I would if it wasn’t for the leash and collar I also have to whereIf you don’t have a waterproof iPhone then you needed an upgrade anyway
This is total BS!
I wish JP could do more than this to Barta, but he's too much of a stand up guy.
Barta threw out these allegations against basically Iowa State University, and it went national on ESPN and other national media outlets. It was a stain on ISU's program and made ISU and its fans look really bad.
And as it turns out, it was nothing more than what has happened to the ISU band every other year in IC, but we just never made a stink about it. And I really doubt if this joint statement ever makes all the rounds through the national media to clean up ISU's now tarnished image, so it's just out there now, and we're stuck with it.
And what makes this even worse is it's not the first time Barta has done this to ISU and tarnished our image nationally without any merit whatsoever.... and done completely unprofessionally.
Barta is WAY in over his head as an AD at a college level program. He's proven it time and time again. He's such a whiny, crying little beeeyotch.
So thankful to have JP over that d-bag.
I wish JP could do more than this to Barta, but he's too much of a stand up guy.
Barta threw out these allegations against basically Iowa State University, and it went national on ESPN and other national media outlets. It was a stain on ISU's program and made ISU and its fans look really bad.
And as it turns out, it was nothing more than what has happened to the ISU band every other year in IC, but we just never made a stink about it. And I really doubt if this joint statement ever makes all the rounds through the national media to clean up ISU's now tarnished image, so it's just out there now, and we're stuck with it.
And what makes this even worse is it's not the first time Barta has done this to ISU and tarnished our image nationally without any merit whatsoever.... and done completely unprofessionally.
Barta is WAY in over his head as an AD at a college level program. He's proven it time and time again. He's such a whiny, crying little beeeyotch.
So thankful to have JP over that d-bag.
Time to teach him/her how to spit.
Why do kids in the band sling vulgarities at Iowa State fans? Maybe it's related to a rivalry or something?
JP is a much better man than me in helping barta save face. I would have thrown uofi under the bus and not thought twice about it.
I would still like to know what the accusation was that garnered such a snowflake response from the head of the uofi athletic department.
I would still like to know what the accusation was that garnered such a snowflake response from the head of the uofi athletic department.
And the stupid ending to all this, is that iowa fans will use this joint press release as confirmation that every rumor about what happened is true.
What's telling to me is that we're nearly four days after the game with reporters watching this story closely, and to my knowledge we've got nobody on the record with a complaint. If something serious had happened, I have to think we would know more by now.
That doesn't mean nothing happened. What seems more likely is that Barta had no idea how Iowa fans treated ISU visitors and band members in Kinnick until this story blew up and Pollard and ISU fans responded with their own stories. Once confronted with that, he realized that what happened in Ames was (sadly) fairly routine and that airing this publicly wouldn't solve anything.
I guess after he exhausted all other options, Gary Barta finally did the right thing.
I agree with most things JP has done and continues to do for ISU, but I strongly disagree that he let Barta off the hook after Barta publicly and nationally tried to hurt our reputation a second time.
