A girl I knew who lived on a different floor of Hillcrest my freshman year was raped by a football player.  The case didn't stick, but the player was eventually cut from the team for disciplinary issues.  You have to run a clean program before you can do anything else in my opinion.  There's no room for rape on the bench or on the field, let alone this campus.

It's really discouraging to see the rise in rape statistics in Iowa City, not just high profile defendants like the players, but whoever assaulted all those women this fall.  When I read any fan's reaction and they're like, "What'll happen to Iowa's backfield  ?"  They don't get it.  They don't get what this is all about on a fundamental level.  This is like hearing a Pizza Delivery guy was stabbed and your first reaction is "Was the pizza alright?"

I hope the victim gets as good a chance to move on from this as is possible - honestly I don't know if somebody can "heal" from this kind of assault.  

fucking up lately on sign-ins. Not sure what's going on. Logged in, name on the bottom of the post, and when you post, it's not there.

Completing disgusting crime and, if guilty, they have no place in society at large, let alone on a football team.  

Say what you will about all the Iowa guys getting into trouble this year, but at least Kirk's been strict in his punishments.  He doesn't put up with any bullshit, which is part of the reason I'm inclined to believe that this was just one really bad year and not a sign of an out of control program.