Hell Hath No Fury Like a Ferentz Scorned

A prof at Iowa sounded off, with a fuck you, in response to an offensive mass-e-mail that a student republican group sent out. [They’re, among other things, holding a Animal Rights BBQ. Yeah.]

(I don’t care about their politics, but Animal Rights + grilled animals = trying to be offensive.)

I wasn’t giving anyone a pass (I have a hard enough time defending my own actions, let alone those of a college kid who I don’t know), but when someone who ILLEGALLY drank underage, then resisted arrest by fleeing the police partially naked when they find him urinating in an ally, and doesn’t face the same punishment as someone who took a toke, well I’d say there’s something slightly hypocritical about that.
Just saying.

we should smear blood above the doorway to our store as a festive decoration. My manager didn’t share my enthusiasm for the seasonal decor.

but then I want people to stop trying to convince that such and such a coach is really a good guy. He is a good guy as long as you don’t ask tough questions, enjoy talking to media types, get too confident in your own abilities or those of your team, or get into trouble. Because if you do, then you will be measured against the bottom line and you will lose.

I meant, just that it will be good if a couple of guys have nice seasons and the receiving yards are plentiful.

68 receptions is not, nor is 6 TD.

I’ll readily admit this bothers me more because I think these two guys got screwed. I can agree to disagree on the rest.

on which one can build a house by connecting the dots.

This is a PR video that even if KF didn’t influence directly, his views on 2 of the top players from the previous year’s team were still taken into account. It is just extremely petty IMHO and that type of attitude should be above someone who is in charge of 100 athletes who look up to him as a mentor, if not a father figure.

Baseball writers all across this country have been paving the way for four years now.

I personally would like to see the players’ highlights in a 2010 recap because they were responsible for some pretty spectacular plays in an otherwise ordinary year, however I’m not that upset by their omissions since it’s been clear for a long time that crossing Ferentz isn’t a wise move.

Is Ferentz a dick? Possibly, and I wholeheartedly agree that naming Doyle COY is far worse – a giant “FUCK YOU” to anyone who dared to say anything negative about the program in January – but this doesn’t upset me too much.

it was petty and ham fisted.

This kind of crap will scare some guys straight, but others say “what a dick” and just work a little harder on not getting caught. That’s how I react to crap like this. I’d probably be tracking down a big bag of dope right now.

cares very much about every aspect of the program. Because that’s what head coaches of major programs do.

I’m in different to his dickishness, by the way. People in positions of power do dickish things. That’s just the way of the world.

Kirk is the CEO. After 12 years he probably doesn’t have to tell his PR folks what to do. They know him.

Look, it’s an interesting topic, but I don’t care that much whether Kirk told them or not. It’s a stupid thing for the Big Ten’s Video Coordinator of the Year to do.

how you are so quick to absolutely absolve the coaches of any responsibility for something bad happening, no matter when or how often.

“How I captured Moscow.”

David Taylor

I can Zinn was a hack without getting into politics.

Everyone knows that the issue on how the migratory habits of swallows affect the time of year in which lilac bushes bloom is going to be the best.

This puts him in the same place as, oh, pretty much every single coach person in the history of ever.

is that it is one thing to be petty but passive, but at some level, Ferentz had to actively work to exclude DJK and ARob from the video, even if it was just to tell the editor not to include them or cut out some clips they were in. It’s one thing to be a dick, its a whole other to go out of your way to be so.

Public opinion matters more than it ever has.

I think the prevailing attitude is that if we don’t address it then the public will move on.

And that attitude is probably right, the public is mostly sheep just asking where to look next, but it doesn’t make this situation right.

maybe not in the manner they would have liked. We only hear the players’ side of the story because KF is manning up and taking the high road, not saying anything disparaging. Gives the facts that they’re dismissed and lets the criticism fall on himself without getting whiny about it or trying to curry favor. That’s the more mature route.

why do we feel sorry for those guys? They care so much about Iowa, the fans, the team, and KF that they are reaching out to him, possibly multiple times. But they also reach out when a joint is handed their way (during the season), so whatevs.

And how the hell is Ferentz hard-hearted or closed-minded when he has donated hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions to the Childrens’ Hospital?

I’m starting to agree with HawKCP, that people aren’t even thinking before they comment on this “story.” I shudder to think how many people around here have made donations to those Sally Struthers ChildFund International scams.

Something tells me that our overweight, surly, unforgiving friend Chazz does not have as much happiness in his life as others on here that are much more kind and open to people making mistakes.

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”

Though it makes all the soul searching and life changes I made after that one day seem oddly over the top, then.

He’s guilty of a hell of a lot more than that, just not legally guilty as you’re correctly pointing out. Also, I’m not sure on this, but wasn’t he charged with a bunch more but had only this one stick? Can’t remember the exact details.