U of I loses $1.4 million in lawsuit
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6 pages on a fired employee in the AD that happened years ago?
This is why I come here, you just cannot beat the amount of Hawkeye discussion around here.
This is why I come here, you just cannot beat the amount of Hawkeye discussion around here.
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And a court verdict that came down last week. It's a massive story in the state. Why would you think it wouldn't be discussed?
Who represented the Iowa AD in this case? Who pays for that?
Oh, the Iowa Attorney General. Me.
https://ballotpedia.org/Iowa_state_government_salary
I am going to guess Tom Miller was going to get paid his $123,669 in 2017 regardless of whether the lawsuit ever came about or not.
I'm actually more interested due to the implications of female employee treatment in a field that has been largely dominated by men. It garnered my attention due to social media posts by friends of mine who don't even live in this state.
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and? Does that mean taxes paid any less of the salaries in the AG's office?
And regardless, I love that you're trying to downplay this story, dismissing the discussion as some some rivalry drivel. Can you actually admit that this is a big story in the state? One of the most high profile people at one of the state's major universities was found to have acted in a discriminatory manner, in a court of law. And considering the other pending lawsuit, and the fact that Meyer's attorneys are asking the judge for more money, this might only be the tip of the iceberg. It's a big deal in this state. There have been articles on all kinds of news outlets, both local and national. Why in the world wouldn't you think this would be a topic of discussion?
It seems to me that it would be hard for Griesbaum to settle - part of her civil suit is for her reinstatement as Iowa field hockey coach.
Then move it to the General College Sports forum or the Off Topic forum if it is such a huge story.
And if it was such a big story for all those concerned here, why weren't there any posts about the trial before the verdict was announced?
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lol, what the heck does it matter what forum it's in? Pure semantics. Because it's in the In-state rivals forum, that means it's not a big story? Give me a break. If I move it to the General College forum, will it make you happy? Will it soothe your chapped little bottom?
And there was a thread back when the lawsuit was announced. And then this one, when the decision was handed down. I for one, was following the stuff coming out of Lestikow and Emmert, and on talk radio, but all of the coverage made it sound like Meyer was getting her butt handed to her, and didn't have a chance. I was shocked to hear about the unanimous verdict. That was not the picture that the media had portrayed. In my opinion, the shock at the nature of the verdict has contributed to the largeness of this story as much as anything.
You can always trade less money for job or more money for no job. There has to be a value to Hawkland of not examining all of their coaches' conduct on the stand.
I know some people who were not homer Hawk sports journalists in the courtroom and they were not surprised at all.
So this massive state wide story only generated posts when the suit was brought forward and when the University of Iowa was found guilty? None at all when the trial was going on? Got it...big news around here it sounds like.
I would wager that if the verdict was not guilty, there would not have been a thread started at all.
You're entitled to your opinion, just like anyone else.
A woman I worked on camp staff with in the 90s was the first person who I can remember discussing this situation, specifically about Griesbaum being fired.
As an academic in a STEM field, I'm very sensitive to the issues of the low number of women in my field. How they are treated elsewhere concerns me as well.
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I would agree with that - especially with what came out in the Greisbaum trial - of student-athletes' claims of mental, physical, and even sexual abuse by other sport coaches that went uninvestigated by Barta.
This interview with Jane on KXNO pretty much confirms, in my mind, the way that I would've voted on the jury. Pretty much a died in the wool socialist who thinks that everyone is the same and we all deserve the exact same things in life. Whining about the women's facilities in comparison to the men's and trying to assert that revenue doesn't matter. Umm ok. can ISU start whining about how Oregon has superior facilities to ISU? And you were assistant AD with I presume at least some say in the facility plan where a lot of schools only have male AD's.
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So, let me get this straight, you don't think this is a big story?
Lay it on out for us, guy. Is this a big deal or isn't it? What's your opinion on the reaction to the outcome? There are still multiple stories about it, on the Des Moines Register's sports section website. Are they just overreacting? Or engaging in rivalry smacktalk? What's your take? What should the appropriate level of discussion be?
Also, I trust we won't find any threads on the Bubo Palo trial or Steven Leath's airplane hijinks on any Iowa message board, will we?
If this had happened at ISU we wouldn't hear the end of it. This is dwarfing the usual delusion they have over their football program.
