Kirk Ferentz getting sued for being racist
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During a time that, as others have mentioned, there is literally nothing else in the sports world to talk about. A complete cop out.
Imo there's only one because literally 99.8% of hok fans are IGNORING it! If you ignore it, it goes away.... isn't that how it works? I know 100s of Hawkeye fans and have had only 2 of them actually engage me in a conversation about it. And that was before Doyle got paid to not coach. Crickets since. No way golden boy Kirk is guilty here. Ignorance is bliss
I said that's how I read it, not that Doyle was referred to in the question. You read it differently.
Please tell me that is your smoking gun.
I don’t know if you have looked at nation sports news today but it looks like just you and Kirk’s son-in-law are dying on the “he didn’t actually say he didn’t know anything” hill.
You know things aren't looking great for Kirk when a fan boy starts painting a negative picture.
Good questions, basically they made changes on letting players express themselves more (hair, jewelery, wardrobe) and KF thought the culture of the program was in a good place after the 2019 season ended with a win in the Holiday Bowl. The Twitter ban was kept in place by vote of the Leadership Group.
He took the blame for not following through with the follow up meetings during the bye week and after the season of the committee that was formed. Would those follow up meetings uncovered anything additional? Hard telling but he still should have had them like he committed to.
Nothing new was in Howes article. The national media could have ran these stories weeks ago if they had actually paid attention to what was being discussed here.
Let me ask you, who do you think these student athletes were talking about in this quote from the report?
"In the report, many examples were shared of black student-athletes being cursed at, ridiculed, and embarrassed in front of their peers. Some student-athletes interviewed felt their white peers were not spoken to in such a disrespectful way."
If I had to guess, they were talking about Doyle. This report didn't just show some of the policies and procedures athletes believed were discriminatory. It discusses how these athletes were treated by their coach / coaches. Kirk knew it was Doyle, changed the dress code to show he "changed" and thought he was all good.
People knew a committee was formed, they didn't know what the committee found and what they reported to the University.
Again, these stories could have been published weeks ago by the national media. Nothing new was in Howes story.
The same national media that ISU fans in this thread were criticizing weeks ago for not covering this story are now having praise heaped on them by ISU fans for covering a story where all the details of the story were made public weeks ago.
Everyone's been pretty vocal on the fact that the national media has been the ones giving these stories oxygen. Local media has been sitting on their hands for the most part.
Well it is nice that they eventually came around to coving the blatant disregard for the players of color that Kirk Ferentz has shown then. Better late than never Triangle.
well, he is right, ADHD is NOT a mental disability. It has been proven to be a huge advantage in the long run because people learn different coping mechanisms. For example, they compensate for being so unsuccessful at school by making connections with people or they subconsciously develop leadership skills. Wall Street is full of guys leading firms that did poor in school because of ADHD or learning disabilities (60 Minutes or a show like that investigated why so many successful business men were poor at school).
You spend like 18 hours a day on these boards so you know damn well that the only media complaining taking place involved the local Iowa media. I know you are having a tough day so maybe you should sit a couple plays out.
From Barta's press conference over a month ago:
"Going back further than a week and a half ago, in the spring of 2018 we were reviewing graduation rates and saw male African-American athletes were graduating at a lower rate than their peers. Not new news and not unique to Iowa, similar statistics elsewhere, but we wanted to do something about it. At my urging, a diversity take force was created to look at that specific issue. In early 2019, they came back with a report and concerns that were raised in interviews. Many of our African-American student-athletes did not feel comfortable being their true selves. Some said they felt like they had to put a mask one when they entered the door, asked to change hair style, and some felt they were't treated well. It was an anonymous survey, but it was reported back that many came from football so we started to address that right away."
so it looks like Kirk lied, just like he did when he said he didn't know where his son was living. But, I guess I'm still in the camp that nothing will happen. I mean it probably should, but we are talking about Iowa here, historically they can behave any way they want and the media, fans, supporters don't care, they won't hold them accountable.
"So to combat these allegations of racial disparities within the program, we allowed everyone to be able to wear their hats, hoodies, and earrings. Problem solved." How tone deaf.
Also graduation rates were not the only thing this report covered. If you read the full report, you'd know that.
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