Best thing from a PR standpoint is probably just to get the story finished, which this statement should hopefully do.
Iowa State and Iowa issue joint statement on marching bands
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Best thing from a PR standpoint is probably just to get the story finished, which this statement should hopefully do.
I know most people on this site despise Gary Rima. I’ve always kind of liked him. FWIW, he destroyed Barta on his radio show today.
I have heard multiple Hawk fans say one or more band members were physically assaulted and that one had broken ribs.....c'mon man. In this day and age, that would be on FB, Instagram, and Twitter in 0.2 sec. Plus, Pollard said tell us where and when and we likely have video of it. I am willing to bet it was a lot of verbal abuse (not great) and ZERO of the rest is true.
I think this is exactly what happened. Barta heard a rumor and went all in thinking he had a gotcha moment. Then instead of the corroborating evidence of this incident, he could a flood of incidents from former ISU band members detailing decades of mistreatment in iowa city and had to tuck tail and try to save face.
Sorry Barta, try as you might the ****** colors of your fanbase keep shining through. Just like the big locker room theft story a couple years back.
I think Barta probably crapped his pants when Pollard came out and said that there are cameras basically everywhere inside and outside of Jack Trice Stadium, so if anything did happen we should be able to find it on video.
At that point, Barta knew he was screwed and would have to settle for a joint statement at best.
Are their ADs as incompetent as Gary Barta though? I know theres dooshers everywhere but how he's still employed is baffling.
this is the type of stuff that I hate to hear. Adults should be above things like that.
This whole era of talking smack and making it out to be acceptable is the problem IMO. It's one thing to do it to people you know but it has crossed the line where you have strangers doing it to others they don't know. I've never talked smack and never will.
Not related to bands but Iowa fans may want to stay away from that Wisconsin game if they don't want to be outraged.
Every home game, the student section of roughly 10-15,000 students in plain site/sound have a tradition where one half yells 'Eat Sh*t! and the other half yells 'F*** you!' back and forth for a good 5 minutes.
Just not that family friendly white picket fence kind of fanmanship that Iowa fans are probably out there gloating about right now.
They'll stick with this for as long as they can like they stuck to the Eustachy thing while the Pierre Pierce stuff was going on.
Every home game, the student section of roughly 10-15,000 students in plain site/sound have a tradition where one half yells 'Eat Sh*t! and the other half yells 'F*** you!' back and forth for a good 5 minutes.
Just not that family friendly white picket fence kind of fanmanship that Iowa fans are probably out there gloating about right now.
They'll stick with this for as long as they can like they stuck to the Eustachy thing while the Pierre Pierce stuff was going on.
I thought you were going to say it’s because that one numb nuts said he Peed in cups and threw it on Wisconsin fans
This. Barta got caught with his pants down and JP doesn't want this nonsense spreading around further so I expect both sides to never talk about it again. Everyone will forget about it and move on with their lives.
I feel like Pollard did throw the UofI under the bus during the press conference on Monday, but in a not throw them under the bus kind of way by sticking to the facts of there being no police report despite the four officers that were with the band, etc.
I figured JP agreed since hawk fans struggle reading and come next year when they do their moronic things in their moronic ways, JP will have Barta by the nuts even more.
