Doyle is gone. Just bc DP doesn't lead with it doesn't mean anything..lol. It will be talked about a lot this week.
Doyle isn't going to be with U of Iowa much longer.
I surely don't think there's much debate there, that is likely a done deal. The question is whether anything else comes of it. UofI and the Iowa media have done a great job steering this as a "Doyle" story, when it is much bigger than this, including things like disparity in suspensions. Based on the comments at their worst Ferentz was made aware but ignored it. At best players did not feel like things done by Doyle would be addressed and Ferentz would have Doyle's back. Not sure where they would get that idea, other than Ferentz giving the big double bird to everybody by honoring Doyle after he put a bunch of kids in the hospital.
Not sure why any of this is surprising. After the whole Satterfield and Everson debacle, nobody is really debating that KF made some mistakes, but whether these were just really bad decisions or a flat out cover up. He wouldn't even say that maybe they should've done things differently, but just held the line that he thought they handled it correctly and doubled down with his indignation that anyone would question his character. Because that happened at a time when Iowa had a lot of players getting in trouble with the law, that story quickly turned into one about KF needing to get discipline back in the program. And since he scolded the media about questioning his character, nobody really pushed much further on his actions, which a reasonable person could view as an attempt to cover up a sexual assault.
Whether it's the Satterfield case, this Doyle racism, or the Rhabdo case, KF doesn't come away blame free, but he's pretty good about "taking responsibility" in the form of "I didn't know anything but as the head coach the buck stops with me." It's a good classic form of shirking responsibility when they were involved in bad ****. Find a fall guy, claim ignorance, don't take responsibility for anything specific you actually did or didn't do, then apologize and say you should've done better as the leader of the organization to identify and correct these problems.
Then the media runs with the same sentiment, ignoring specific actions or inactions by Ferentz himself. They'll do a couple of "Kirk does things the right way, but he needs to get his program back under control" pieces, and everybody moves on.
Very predictable.
