OT: Iowa Press Conference
11:00 AM ET. Press conference regarding player suspensions. This is where all of our questions should be answered. Live video:
http://www.kcci.com/video/26128421/detail.html
Potential TWIS content:
Post-Conf Edit: KF confirms no more suspensions
December 14th, 2010 at 11:06 AM ^
it's a whole bunch of nothing
December 14th, 2010 at 11:09 AM ^
and being proactive on testing
92 have been tested this fall (27 out of house)
that being said...
December 14th, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^
December 14th, 2010 at 11:23 AM ^
December 14th, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
Tell us what you know about the Iowa drug testing saga that is not in the linked article. Curious mgobloggers want to know..
December 14th, 2010 at 11:35 AM ^
December 14th, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^
unless he's going to ramble on about drug testing and then sneak in 12 players being suspended this was a huge BHGP freakout over nothing.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:14 AM ^
Iowa players have been cheating drug tests. lulz
December 14th, 2010 at 11:26 AM ^
Iowa spends $70,000/year to have a drug testing program that has loopholes.
We stretched too much. Iowa can have Rosenberg please.
December 14th, 2010 at 2:08 PM ^
Stretching causes pain. Scripts dull pain.
You see, RichRod is purposely hurting his kids. Think of the children, Kirk is doing as much.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:11 AM ^
they'll be serving coffee and.. brownies.. after the press conference in the lobby
December 14th, 2010 at 11:18 AM ^
I am definitely not going. I was told Rice Krispies and apple juice (Mott's at that). Ferentz is a liar!
December 14th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
dwight shrute has marked them up to $8.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:44 PM ^
you cannot bring bottled water into the press conference. But, you can buy it for $4, while supplies last...
December 14th, 2010 at 11:23 AM ^
MORE PEOPLE WILL COME IF THEY THINK WE'LL HAVE PUNCH AND PIE!!!
December 14th, 2010 at 12:10 PM ^
Yeah, there isn't any.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:50 AM ^
Sorry i'm holding out for the free hat.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:16 AM ^
no players tested positive due to drug test cheating. AKA they have a dog with no teeth. must have tested Derrell Johnson-Koulianos recently and come out negative.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:19 AM ^
Just because he was caught with drugs... and was found to be operating a drug house... and admitted to using drugs...
December 14th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
He was obviously coerced into a confession!
December 14th, 2010 at 11:22 AM ^
into possession...
December 14th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
A lot of smoke...
December 14th, 2010 at 12:46 PM ^
to weed out all the offending players...
December 14th, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
If you test positive, you are not suspended. You are anonymously put in counseling.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:24 AM ^
So, like, what the fuck is going on then?
December 14th, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
Jewel Hampton transferring, Adam Robinson suspended for the bowl game, DJK still in deep shit.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:30 AM ^
Ferentz is such a great coach. We should have hired him when he won 11 games a couple years ago. We would be in such great shape right now.
/see what I did there?
December 14th, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
I do see what you did. The problem is, Justin Feagin and Boubacar Cissoko. First, let not cast stones from our glass Big House. Second, as a former college athlete, I can attest that coaches don't have as much of a chokehold on their players' personel lives as most assume. You gotta just hope that the idiot who decides to pull this doesn't commit to your school.
What these guys did deserves punishment, I am sure. I think Ferentz is overrated. But to put this on him is just a touch off base...
December 14th, 2010 at 11:51 AM ^
Fair enough. Can we put his son's drinking problems on him, then?
December 14th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^
his son's housing choices on him?
(that was his son who was living in government subsidized housing, right?)
December 14th, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
Yes, it was. There have been problems in that family for one reason or another. So right now only 3 guys are in trouble. What a joke. They all scammed the test, so nothing will be done and everyone is free. I don't think this compares to Bubacar or Feagin. That didn't seem to be team wide. This very well could include a bunch of guys. I will be surprised if this is the last we hear on this situation. Of course, Kirk and Co. were able to cover up a secual assualt case that was pretty damn serious so maybe this will be it.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:05 PM ^
A shitty drug testing system is a systematic problem. And it appears that the testing system Iowa set up can be beaten like Minneso... oh. Right.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:18 PM ^
I didn't see the press conference. If it was systemic, then yeah, I guess you can put it on the administration. I'm not sure who would fall on that sword, as I can't believe Ferentz had a hand in the drug policy. Who knows if their lax policy was unique to them, or was a standard...
December 14th, 2010 at 12:32 PM ^
Wasn't KF one of Carrs' choices for his replacement?
December 14th, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
Press conference is great insight into lax attitude toward poor chararacter within the program. Iowa program is in deep trouble down the road if thats the case. Clayborne's comment that the team quit on the way to Minny makes sense now. I see the Iowa program in trouble unless they clean house which looks unlikely
December 14th, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
why is Jewel Hampton transferring? I didn't think he was implicated in the sordid drug house business, so I'm assuming it's coincidental timing?
December 14th, 2010 at 12:43 PM ^
I think Hampton was mad that they kept forcing him to use the ACL Exploderizer.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:43 PM ^
I have heard he refused to test.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:52 PM ^
One of two reasons I suspect given the current circumstances IMO:
1. He had a problem with his fellow players and transferred to avoid being associated with what he knew was happening and would eventually be exposed.
2. He was involved with what was happening and transferred to avoid being busted.
December 14th, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
Iowa has given new meaning to bowl season.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:15 PM ^
I'm about to put Missouri as my 35 pointer. My most confident pick.
December 14th, 2010 at 1:11 PM ^
34. Uconn still plays the Sooners.
December 14th, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^
Yes! No way UConn wins that one. I got Alabama and Boise St. as locks too.
December 14th, 2010 at 2:21 PM ^
We don't need a few million more idiots out driving around "high" in their cars killing more families. We have enough drunk drivers already.
December 14th, 2010 at 2:48 PM ^
like driving while high or intoxicated.
December 14th, 2010 at 2:55 PM ^
to attack drug use on the supply side. Making drugs illegal makes them more difficult to obtain and more expensice, therefore theoretically reducing consumption. Back-end punishments aim to shift the the demand curve.
Now... ask me how well those plans work...
December 14th, 2010 at 3:15 PM ^
Me thinks the billions and billions and billions of dollars spent on the "drug war" might not have been such a good use of precious dollars.
Would I rather have a stoner driving my daughter around or someone texting while driving/ Hmmm...neither.
December 14th, 2010 at 6:24 PM ^
It does work in that regard, at least somewhat. We have a case example: the drinking age. When it was raised from 18 to 21, drunk driving arrests promptly dropped by a significant amount, and have never returned to the levels at which they were when the drinking age was 18. People aged 18-20 may still be drinking, but they're at least not getting behind the wheel very often when they've done so.