Kirk Ferentz Is So Dumb, He Doesn't Know Whether To Mess With The National Anthem Before Hawkeye Football Games

Kirk Ferentz, disrespecting the National Anthem

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15 and 16 paragraphs into the story:

Ferentz also has been meeting regularly with the 23 current players on the Hawkeyes’ Leadership Group. He said they spent an hour last week sharing their thoughts on what, if anything, the team should do during the national anthem before games this fall. Some players want to stage a silent protest of the way Black Americans are treated by law enforcement officers, a feeling that is growing among athletes across the country in light of the May 25 death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was suffocated while in police custody in Minneapolis in a video that shocked the world.

Ferentz said the players did not come to a consensus during last week’s meeting. He wants to broach the subject with the entire team as well. Ferentz has said he would support a demonstration during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” but that he wants his players to be unanimous about how to go about that.


I'm sure that will go over well with the fans, if there are any left.

I don't know how this asshole got to be the highest paid State employee.  When Hayden Fry retired, he was only making about $265,000 a year, but Ferentz has pulled down $3 million to $4 million a year in salary as long as I can remember.  Each season seems to be designed to barely get Iowa to a bullshit bowl by paying non-conference teams to lose and the Hawkeyes ending up with a record like 7-6, 6-6, 8-5, and 9-4. 

Then there's the way Ferentz has managed his team.  Mainly, trying to sweep under the rug sexual assault claims against his players like Cedric Everson and Abe Satterfield.  Or as the blog Black Heart Gold Pants put it:  "RAPE STILL NOT A BIG DEAL IN JOHNSON COUNTY".

But that was OK because Ferentz's man, then-assistant athletic director Fred Mims, is black.  The rapists are black.  The victim was likely black.  The then-Dean of Student Phil Jones, who was later fired for his role in the debacle, is black.  The Iowa Sports Mafia, constantly on their knees sucking Ferentz's cock, weren't going to throw him under the back of the bus because everybody in an authority position at the University of Iowa was completely incompetent and/or corrupt.

Ferentz has done other stupid shit over the years.

Remember in the early 00s when the media caught then-"student" Brian Ferentz slumming it on the taxpayer's dime in a Section 8 apartment complex?  (archive link)  Daddy Kirk was pulling down millions then, but somehow Brian "qualified" for taxpayer-subsidized housing.

More recently, despite earning $4 million a year, Kirk Ferentz wouldn't pay his portion ($9500) of an agreed-upon road maintenance bill in the small homeowner's association where he resides. (archive link)  What a cheap bastard.

What do you want to bet that some of the morons on the team want the "Black National Anthem" to be played?  I can imagine that they'll go that disastrous direction.  Anything to bend over and let that bisexual segregationist Wylliam Smith a little less unhappy.