There will be "courses" assigned to coaches as part of the process. Doyle got an award for putting kids in the hospital. I wont believe he is gone until i see him on tv walking to his car with a box.
Kirk Ferentz getting sued for being racist
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There will be "courses" assigned to coaches as part of the process. Doyle got an award for putting kids in the hospital. I wont believe he is gone until i see him on tv walking to his car with a box.
Hey, there are these two players that will specifically say that KKKirk had no clue. Give them a call. Their names are Brian and James.
There is a poster on HR that text with a former player that played with DJK and called the drug bust story laughable. He said DJK was late to practice often, skipped class, skipped leaning center hours, skipped training table and only about 4-5 guys on the team liked him.
It's no secret that KF has problems with guys who he thinks carry a bigger than usual ego, who have big personalities and like to talk, and who don't conform to his "awe shucks" program persona and Patriotesque closed-mouthedness. Rightly or wrongly, he seems to automatically deem them as "me first" and not "team first" guys. The dynamic between KF and DJK is the starkest example of this. Seems like in KF's eyes, DJK didn't carry himself right, dress right, sound right, and his disdain seemed to grow from there. It's a shame, and I don't disbelieve everything DJK claims to have happened between the two of them. Not sure I buy all of it, but I do believe much of it. I do think if it was driven by racism, we'd be hearing it straight up from DJK and other players the same they've directly called out Doyle, who needs to go.
There is no way they can retain Doyle after all of this. There are way too many players that have spoken up and if they kept him it would blow up in a major way.
Yeah, the you usually have three sides to each story. Person As, Person Bs, and then the truth; which usually falls between A and Bs.
I don't think he will get fired either but if I'm the AD (LOL Barta) I don't think I can be convinced that Kirk is going to change. The whole "I never saw anything" excuse is lame and chicken $hit. If Kirk wants to stay he needs to come out and say that he probably should have done more regarding Doyle instead of hiding behind the I never saw it excuse.
By all accounts, Doyle should be fired. The question then becomes whether or not Kirk deserves to be terminated as he allowed all of this to happen under his roof. His claim that he had no idea any of this was going on and claims he never once heard of any racial disparity is laughable. My opinion doesn't really matter, but to me, he deserves as much blame as Doyle. As the head coach you are responsible for every little piece of the program. If these problems happened a few times and Kirk addressed it with him, then Kirk would've been doing his job. Some of these accusations actually note that Kirk was very well aware of Doyle's behavior and further blamed players for not respecting Doyle.
Not down playing the racism at all...its obviously a factor here but DJK's situation is absolutely ******* disgusting regardless of his race. Any defense of Kirk in that situation is sickening.
It's all Rob Howe's fault. If only he wouldn't have given DJK a platform to speak out.
By the way, I found an absolute DOOZY of a take on Twitter by an Iowa fan..
"Was Iowa football at a competitive disadvantage because of racism? Did Iowa leave any wins on the field?"
"Was Iowa football at a competitive disadvantage because of racism? Did Iowa leave any wins on the field?"
Agree. You can't put 100+ people, at a time and having people rotate in and out, without having racial, cultural, and other issues arise periodically over 20 years. I'm sure there will be a few (hopefully small ones that are addressed quickly) that happen under Campbell if they already haven't.
Losing a $6 million lawsuit, now this? Where in the hell is Barta at? Hiding up Fran and Margaret's skirt? All things start at the top and trickle down and he is no where to be heard from. Typical Barta fashion.
Right. Doyle and Ferentz wanted players to conform to the Iowa football culture, which is a culture that just so happens to frown upon a lot of the things that young black men consider important to their culture like their music, clothes, tattoos, etc.
I think that this Iowa situation is going to affect a lot of football programs and how they're individually run in a positive way. Coaches are going to use that as a good example of what not to do and how they can help encourage the conversations within the team.
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