Just came on here to post the same thing. JP not talking seems significant IMO.
Iowa State and Iowa issue joint statement on marching bands
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Just came on here to post the same thing. JP not talking seems significant IMO.
Pretty sure this was the guy plowing through the band as he wanted to hear the fight song up close and personal.
Pretty sure this guys "fight song" involves Nickelback.
There is a pretty simple solution to this problem in the future. Don't send your band to the other teams stadium. ISU should not send its band to Iowa City and UI shouldn't send their band to Ames. I mean really, who in Jack Trice wanted to see the Hawkeye band and I seriously doubt people at Kinnick want to see the Cyclone band.
Sending the bands to opponents stadiums is just an invitation for someone to do something dumb, and here we are.
Sending the bands to opponents stadiums is just an invitation for someone to do something dumb, and here we are.
This isn't anything new. I got punched in the face sitting at a stoplight in Ames with my dad as a 12yo by drunk Iowa fans. I rolled his arm up my dad took off and we sent him ass over tits into the middle of Lincoln way. The only thing that is new is the 24-7 outrage news and social media cycle.
I get it...
But the 24-7 outrage news isn't harmless. When Facebook and Twitter rumors end up on ESPN they become fact; bullsh*t or not.
I was at a family gathering Sunday with hawkroach relatives present. Their story was that somebody broke the ribs of a UI band member.
Me: Who did that?
Them: ISU fans...
Their source is the CR Gazette. It's fact now for Hawkroach Nation. I want to know if it is indeed fact. Because if it's not our AD needs to make sure that every outlet which has given credence to that allegation knows it is false.
It's a completely asinine position.
I've been assaulted by Iowa fans at JTS, I'm sure many of us have. I'm sure idiot ISU fans have started crap with Iowa fans in Iowa City as well.
They see the enrollment #s and the steady building of ISU's AD and are afraid.
Let's all remember when Iowa was "burglarized" at JTS...by an Iowa student.
Exactly.
I think we all have stories like this. It's unfortunate but just reality and to act like this 100k Iowans are bad but these other 100k Iowans are saints is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of.
I'm confused by the story now. So this member says this happened when marching through the tailgate section. I thought the band was led to the NE or NW endzone and loaded the buses right on 4th Street after the game. So, what tailgate section did they go through?
There seems to be a lot of inconsistencies with the timeline of events.
Note: If an assault did occur, those individuals should be reprimanded. We Cyclone fans are better than that.
I don't feel represented by drunk idiots whom I've never met. I'm an ISU fan but they don't represent me nor am I embarrassed by it.
I also don't care that Hawk fans got their information from the CR Gazette. It's just a Hawkeye echo chamber. People outside of Iowa DO NOT CARE. They just don't. They'll hear/read about it and then forget about it a day later. The smart ones know that this can happen anywhere.
For the record, I hope they catch whoever did the stuff. I'm not minimizing that.
I also don't care that Hawk fans got their information from the CR Gazette. It's just a Hawkeye echo chamber. People outside of Iowa DO NOT CARE. They just don't. They'll hear/read about it and then forget about it a day later. The smart ones know that this can happen anywhere.
For the record, I hope they catch whoever did the stuff. I'm not minimizing that.
If I remember correctly wasn't there a bunch of University of Iowa, people that were upset at the hiring practice when they hired Bruce?
How quickly they forget.
How quickly they forget.
It doesn't always work that way. Just as often, someone from out of state reads the headline, makes a judgement, and moves on. They usually don't see a correction or apology later and assume the original story was true. (I've lived out of state for a while and it's what I experience with people I know who know I'm an ISU grad.)
Only known footage of the Iowa marching and assault...
THIS.....much like that puke Chris Hassel, biased as all hell in a profession where they shouldn't be so blatantly biased towards their brainwashed love for EIU.
Only thing I wish Pollard would do is say something. He’s letting them control the narrative. Even if it’s him coming out saying “we still want to work with Iowa and the victims on the investigation and provide whatever information and footage we can, but until they actually give us details of what happened, when and where, our hands are tied” just to reconfirm that they still haven’t given any information or filed reports.
“A girl’s ribs are broken because of fan interaction,” he said. “A member of the band was cornered by a number of males and was assaulted.”
If this is true this is appalling behavior.
But I'm having a really tough time understanding that if this is as stated, where were they? How did she get her ribs broken? Who broke it up? Somebody else must have seen something.
These questions need to be answered now.
If this is true this is appalling behavior.
But I'm having a really tough time understanding that if this is as stated, where were they? How did she get her ribs broken? Who broke it up? Somebody else must have seen something.
These questions need to be answered now.
That was clear a week ago imo.
This has been nothing more than a smear campaign of intentionally ambiguous and suggestive statements. Not even allegations.
I’d assume this would be nefarious in intent, but the university of Iowa is too much of a clown show for that.
Why again is this framed as a CyHawk thing? I assume they’ll shutdown their program when reviewing the police blotter for Kinnick related transgressions?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t find playing Iowa in any sport having much upside, so if this ends it, so be it.
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Or he’s attempting to take the high road as U of I administration hangs itself.
