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Originally Posted by thesloppy
Seems like this Iowa football stuff is kind of a collision at the intersection of racism, toxic masculinity and football culture being behind the curve, which makes it difficult to sift through.
One quote that stood out to me from a former black player was "I never felt safe to just be myself the whole time I was at Iowa football" just because A) that is sad and B) that would not have been a realistic expectation for anybody in practically any football program when I was that age.
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I don not disagree. But there are countless times when I, and most others, wondered why the white walk on started ahead of the highly touted black recruit.
And to add data to this, the 2015 recruiting class showed that most of the black players in that class transferred while few white players did. And only because of injury.
This is deep. And we will see a big change soon at Iowa.
I see The AD gone, who lost a multi million dollar lawsuit for sexism recently, and The entire coaching staff gone.