Kirk Ferentz getting sued for being racist
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I must have missed it being busy yesterday, but did Akrum Wadley's mom reveal anything interesting?
Enough that she went from raising a fan favorite to being not credible and a terrible person in the matter of 45 mins
When you think about it most fandoms are cultish in many ways, so I wouldn't say its a surprise at all.
These are the same people that ripped on Penn State, Ohio St, and Mich St....
This. Dantonio and Tressel claimed to know nothing about the garbage going on at their school but I guarantee hawk fans were screaming for them to go.
I totally agree. He has been chicken $hit. As I said on a post last night, it appears that King Ferentz has total control of the main media. It's disgusting!!!
The standard is a hell of a lot lower than expecting sports media in this state to submit FOIA requests.
In this case, the goalposts related to Ferentz just keep moving by those talking about the story. Here's been my view of the progression:
1. Well, these are just a few allegations, none include Kirk directly and it seems likely he didn't know anything about them. As long as it doesn't get any worse, Kirk should not be fired. Not to mention, this will definitely open up the floodgates and every school is going to have similar things to deal with.
2. Sure, there are a lot more accusations, some of which saying that Kirk was informed but didn't do anything, but this is still a Doyle problem, and he probably needs to go now that he put out that statement that shows he's not changing. It will be interesting to see how other schools deal with this when these things start to come out for them as well.
3. True, there are a lot of accusations stating that Kirk clearly knew or was even involved in racist or discriminatory practices, and no other school seems to be having such problems, but only a couple accusations included suggestions that the whole staff needs to be gone, and a couple former players said they didn't think he should be fired. So unless you start seeing a bunch of former players calling for him to be fired, he should be fine. Kirk's built up enough good will to overcome this.
Somehow, every incident, whether it's the sexual assault cover up, the Rhabdo case, or this, somehow there's this mysterious "good will" reserve where the needle is on Full no matter what **** this guy does to other people in order to preserve his football program and legacy.
FOIA requests will be great, but I'd settle for the state of Iowa media honestly discussing things that are clearly out in the public domain.
I think at this time there would have to be a video of Kirk Ferentz doing something incredibly bad in order for any Iowa media member / fan to believe Kirk isn't a saint.
He could be stomping a puppy to death and they would still say the puppy deserved it because it blew off some autograph sessions.
It's becoming abundantly clear they are just going to wait this thing out and the local media is going to allow them to do so. They'll avoid any media until they have to, and even then they'll have rehearsed answers to softball questions.
What's going to make me physically ill will be the production that goes into making Kirk out as some newly remade man. Years of racist policies swept under the rug because he establishes a minority leadership group or something.
What's going to make me physically ill will be the production that goes into making Kirk out as some newly remade man. Years of racist policies swept under the rug because he establishes a minority leadership group or something.
It wouldn't matter, he has this bottomless tank of good will he can just keep tapping into. I mean, there's plenty that show what Ferentz did.
I can only hope somebody interviews King for his take on Kirk and hok program's issues.
Morehouse said there was a meeting yesterday attended by all football players. I am unsure what was said in the meeting but the players left so enthused he said "they would've walked to Dubuque to play Wisconsin in a parking lot and beat them by 40." I guess the players are all behind KF.
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