Matt Fannon (Iowa state womens soccer coach) accused of body shaming/ verbal abuse

[Jnecker4cy]

Why would he do that over a women's soccer coach? A coach with a bad record. Tells me they looked into it and found the whole thing to be BS.

Could be but is it normal to keep a disgruntled athlete on Scholarship till she graduates? Scholarship are 1 year contacts, she has been atcISU for 4 years now, only played 2 and is still Scholarship. Seems awful nice of the University.

Honest question is it common in this situation to uphold the Scholarship of a player no longer on the team?

 

[ISUCubswin]

Tommy Birch: And I will keep asking questions until I hear answers that fit my narrative!

 

[isufbcurt]

Could be but is it normal to keep a disgruntled athlete on Scholarship till she graduates? Scholarship are 1 year contacts, she has been atcISU for 4 years now, only played 2 and is still Scholarship. Seems awful nice of the University.

Honest question is it common in this situation to uphold the Scholarship of a player no longer on the team?

Depends. There were a couple guys who had to many concussions and had to quit when I was playing FB, Mac left them on scholarship even thought they didn't play.

 

[cysmiley]

it is?

Also, isn't part of her job to respond to media requests?

I'm surprised they kept him, not because I know he's guilty but because I didn't see the upside in keeping him. I don't know how cutthroat women's soccer recruiting is but this can't help and it sure looks like they need some players.

If I were going to psycho-analyze Pollard here, it kind of seems like he felt that if he let the coach go it would have been seen as an admission of guilt on the coach and he didn't want to do that. It's probably not going to work out where this turns into a success but this also isn't exactly a huge priority for the fanbase so does it matter if you let the guy go now or in three years?

I do know that every major Hilton event had a Senior Athletic Department person present in the past.

 

[mitchforcy]

Amateur hour response here. Media relations is also part of her job. If at any point in the last two weeks she actually gives an answer on any of this, the issue is probably dead and buried. Instead, here we are.

Right. It's not like he cornered her at a grocery store on a Sunday and demanded a comment.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

Could be but is it normal to keep a disgruntled athlete on Scholarship till she graduates? Scholarship are 1 year contacts, she has been atcISU for 4 years now, only played 2 and is still Scholarship. Seems awful nice of the University.

Honest question is it common in this situation to uphold the Scholarship of a player no longer on the team?

I think the scholarship offers are now four years. It was that way forever until 4-5 years ago.

 

[jcisuclones]

Depends. There were a couple guys who had to many concussions and had to quit when I was playing FB, Mac left them on scholarship even thought they didn't play.

Campbell did the same for a buddy of mine who was recruited under Rhoads but had to "retire" due to back issues.

 

[CloneJD]

Could be but is it normal to keep a disgruntled athlete on Scholarship till she graduates? Scholarship are 1 year contacts, she has been atcISU for 4 years now, only played 2 and is still Scholarship. Seems awful nice of the University.

Honest question is it common in this situation to uphold the Scholarship of a player no longer on the team?

I’m guessing she’s on partial and the mental health situation played into it.

 

[67CY]

Tommy Birch: And I will keep asking questions until I hear answers that fit my narrative!

Tommy is probably going to get a lot of airtime on kxno

 

[ISUAlum2002]

Tommy is probably going to get a lot of airtime on kxno

That's OK, he never speaks coherently enough on the radio for people to figure out what he's talking about anyway.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

Campbell did the same for a buddy of mine who was recruited under Rhoads but had to "retire" due to back issues.

Yes - in the past, coaches could.play God, but those days are gone to my knowledge.

 

[NATEizKING]

Part of the scholarship offer covers having to quit due to health.

 

[67CY]

Tommy fires back in today’s Rag print edition front page

 

[GMackey32]

Allegedly, one of the girls that claimed she was kicked off the team actually left the team on her own accord but didn't want to tell her parents the truth about it because they had pushed her into being a D1 soccer player. So we aren't getting the full story from the media side of things.

 

[trevn]

Per Skip, one of the girls that claimed she was kicked off the team actually left the team on her own accord but didn't want to tell her parents the truth about it because they had pushed her into being a D1 soccer player. So we aren't getting the full story from the media side of things.

If true.....WOWWWWW

 

[Carlisle Clone]

Per Skip, one of the girls that claimed she was kicked off the team actually left the team on her own accord but didn't want to tell her parents the truth about it because they had pushed her into being a D1 soccer player. So we aren't getting the full story from the media side of things.

No way......not the media....

Lots of busted ankles in here from people jumping to conclusions

BTW-thanks for the info Mackey

 

[GMackey32]

No way......not the media....

Lots of busted ankles in here from people jumping to conclusions

BTW-thanks for the info Mackey

I don't really have a dog in the fight, but there has only been one side of the story reported and Birch didn't give Iowa State a chance to tell their side before he pushed out his article.

 

[Neptune78]

Tommy fires back in today’s Rag print edition front page

What the gist this time?

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

I don't really have a dog in the fight, but there has only been one side of the story reported and Birch didn't give Iowa State a chance to tell their side before he pushed out his article.

Shocking - a journalist reports one side of the story as a fact.

 

[ISUTex]

Tommy fires back in today’s Rag print edition front page

Who still reads the print edition?