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#3. Online Trouble: Paper Claims Facebook Problems for Hawkeyes Not Limited to One or Two Players - Digging deeper into the latest scandal to rock the athletic program at the University of Iowa, their hometown paper, The Iowa Press-Citizen, reviewed the Facebook pages of more than 40 players. Their findings? More than 20 under aged UI football players have photos "appearing to show them engaging alcohol in various ways, from drinking to posing with liquor bottles or beer cans." Additionally, several other players have posted messages to their profiles that "discuss alcohol consumption, racial slurs and other offensive subjects." Of course, this all started when cops arrested sophomores Dominique Douglas and Anthony Bowman this week and pictures from their Facebook pages (right and below) became instant BadJocks Classics. But fans of this site know that this isn't the first time the Hawkeyes have landed on our front page: Just last year we were critical of the school's own internal investigation into what appeared to be hazing pictures from the men's baseball team. (Ironically, these were also discovered after being posted on Facebook.) We felt their ringer of an investigator used some unusual guidelines to somehow come to the conclusion that the pics were NOT hazing, despite clear standards in the school's own anti-hazing policy that appeared to indicate otherwise. Our point? It appears to us the message being sent is that the school isn't serious about the discipline of their student athletes . . . and this latest round of trouble appears to support that conclusion. On the other hand, Iowa seems to have no problem handing out harsh penalties for hazing when it comes to frats: just ask the boys over at the Gamma Nu chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. Oops, you can't: they're banned from campus until 2009 for giving pledges booze and making them do calisthenics.

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Top Ten Bad Jock Stories of 2007