I agree, it should have been reported, but the fact that it was not does not mean that no assaults occurred. I can assure you that if this happened to me as a 19 year old, I would have had no clue how to react, and would probably have waited to call my parents later that night or the next morning. Plenty of Iowa State fans (both former marching band members and regular fans) have claimed that they have been pelted with beer cans, spat on, had urine dumped on them, etc. The universal consensus amongst Iowa State fans is belief or acceptance that these events occurred. I am simply questioning why the recounting of these events is presumed to be true, yet when Iowa State fans are the ones allegedly engaging in those activities, it is presumed to be false or exaggerated because no video evidence has been released to the public, and no police report immediately filed.
I think everyone can agree that this whole situation was handled poorly, and that Barta unsurprisingly has turned this into a cluster****. I think everyone can also agree that Iowa State band members have likely had similar, if not worse, incidents perpetrated against them. But the victim blaming and denial that these events occurred, simply because of the way it was handled by an incompetent athletic director, is nothing more than tribalism.