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Kirk Ferentz getting sued for being racist

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Brodie0 said:
Yes, I can agree with most of this. I think that what this all boils down to is this - Doyle (and to a lesser extent Brian) have said a few racist/racially insensitive things, the coaches in general bully the players and are really tough on them, and the strictness of the program make it such that black athletes don’t feel comfortable to be themselves when around the coaches.

All of that stuff is very bad, and needs to be fixed immediately. However, the vast majority of players have said they don’t want anyone fired, they just want things to change. Ferentz is still running the program like he did 20 years ago, and today’s players are making it known that they aren’t okay with that anymore. Some of the posters on here are making it seem like Iowa’s coaches are virulent racists, which is beyond ridiculous.
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You do understand that the current players don't want anyone fired because that introduces uncertainty and the potential for wholesale playbook changes, new routines, and the possibility that the new coach brings in a style of play where they don't fit the style of play? It is why many players transfer when the head coach moves on and why the NCAA grants a transfer without losing a year. No player wants that.

You think that Kirk can change his style after 20+ years...even if it means winning less?
 
jsb said:
Well he apparently raises a real ******* in Brian, who might also be a ******* racist. And not only did he raise him, he enabled him by giving him a job.

The KF is a saint line of thinking around this state is real annoying.
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This should've ended with the sexual assault case, but it didn't. Should've then ended when his response to criticism of Doyle for putting kids in the hospital was to rub it in everyone's faces by making up a one-time award for Doyle, but it didn't.

Media in the state has been REALLY soft on KF. Hell, the most critical people I've found on the sexual assault case were on Black Heart, Gold Pants, Iowa's SB Nation site. And the Go Iowa Awesome writers have been WAY more critical of Barta than any of the media outlets.

This state's sports media are cut out for fluff pieces. Don't dig into anything like, say affadavits on the sexual assault case that should've had KF under major fire. Don't rock the boat. It gets a little annoying hearing some of the local journalists deride the "hot take culture" with internet reporting and sports radio, thinking their path-of-least-resistance fluff reporting is somehow better.
 
AuH2O said:
This should've ended with the sexual assault case, but it didn't. Should've then ended when his response to criticism of Doyle for putting kids in the hospital was to rub it in everyone's faces by making up a one-time award for Doyle, but it didn't.

Media in the state has been REALLY soft on KF. Hell, the most critical people I've found on the sexual assault case were on Black Heart, Gold Pants, Iowa's SB Nation site. And the Go Iowa Awesome writers have been WAY more critical of Barta than any of the media outlets.

This state's sports media are cut out for fluff pieces. Don't dig into anything like, say affadavits on the sexual assault case that should've had KF under major fire. Don't rock the boat. It gets a little annoying hearing some of the local journalists deride the "hot take culture" with internet reporting and sports radio, thinking their path-of-least-resistance fluff reporting is somehow better.
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Going after Larry hard for drinking with coeds took a lot out of them probably.
 
Acylum said:
I listened to the first 40 minutes on Monday until I couldn’t take it any longer. Their basic stance was you can’t force people to change by firing them.
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JFC did someone actually take the Tom Osbourne "Lawrence Phillips needs football" approach to this situation?
 
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There's no race involved in this, but how sad is it to hear in that Facebook video that Brian Ferentz, in a position group meeting, told the guys that he hated a certain player and wished that he would just get injured.
 
jmkc12 said:
There's no race involved in this, but how sad is it to hear in that Facebook video that Brian Ferentz, in a position group meeting, told the guys that he hated a certain player and wished that he would just get injured.
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That's the thing. There is no doubt plenty of racial injustices that have happened within the Hawkeye program under Kirk, but those are not the only problems. Making fun of a kid with a learning disability, posting that kid's grades for everyone to see, covering up rape cases, giving a new award to recognize the S&E coach who put 14 kids in the hospital during a work out, etc.

We don't have to rank any of those as to which one is worse. All of those things, and I'm probably missing some, have happened during Kirk's time there and he's being propped up on a pedestal as some sort of hero.
 
I half-hearted listen to the McNutt interview. I don't understand why he feels KF can fix this. He is the guy that has allowed this to happen so he should now get the opportunity to fix it? That makes no sense to me.
 
NorthCyd said:
I like Murph and Andy a lot and generally feel they can discuss things pretty fairly but they are giving KF a total pass on this.
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FYI their producer has done some work for Hawkeye Nation recently. Considering what happened to Howe yesterday, it wouldn't surprise me if the message was sent to Murph and Andy to take in easy on KF.
 
BigTurk said:
I half-hearted listen to the McNutt interview. I don't understand why he feels KF can fix this. He is the guy that has allowed this to happen so he should now get the opportunity to fix it? That makes no sense to me.
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For many of them, they were never targeted by Kirk. His employees did his dirty work for him in order for Kirk to appear like he was the good guy. Definitely don't blame any of them, just think they're not realizing that Kirk was the one in control of what they were doing. You don't have a culture like Iowa did without a very strict hierarchal system.
 
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