APNewsBreak: Critical audit another blow for Iowa athletics

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Barta is good at marketing, not so good at managing. That's my one sentence takeaway from all of this. While he was picking alums and others pockets, his own pocket was getting picked.
 
You look at the headline and think "Man, this looks terrible, I wonder how bad this is going to be?"

Then you read the article and it talks about a $530 overcharge on a trip, 3 IPads unaccounted for, a dept cell phone used for a few more days than it should, etc.

Are you kidding me with this? Sure, it once again appears that the process accountability at the UI sucks...but what's new? But with all that faulty process accountability, this is what the audit found? So a $110M athletic department had an unauthorized $530 travel charge and 3 missing IPads that are probably, at most, a total of $1,000.

This looks a little sensational to me....
 
SpiderRico said:
You look at the headline and think "Man, this looks terrible, I wonder how bad this is going to be?"

Then you read the article and it talks about a $530 overcharge on a trip, 3 IPads unaccounted for, a dept cell phone used for a few more days than it should, etc.

Are you kidding me with this? Sure, it once again appears that the process accountability at the UI sucks...but what's new? But with all that faulty process accountability, this is what the audit found? So a $110M athletic department had an unauthorized $530 travel charge and 3 missing IPads that are probably, at most, a total of $1,000.

This looks a little sensational to me....
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So, Jane's team (and apparently the jury forewoman) thinks all the complaints about her job performance were petty, but these 3 IPads are highly important....

“It turns out the one extra area they claimed Taylor was doing was being handled incredibly poorly,” said Meyer attorney Tom Newkirk, who added that he would have used the report to cross-examine Taylor. “We’re very disturbed that the university didn’t produce this report prior to trial.”
 
SpiderRico said:
You look at the headline and think "Man, this looks terrible, I wonder how bad this is going to be?"

Then you read the article and it talks about a $530 overcharge on a trip, 3 IPads unaccounted for, a dept cell phone used for a few more days than it should, etc.

Are you kidding me with this? Sure, it once again appears that the process accountability at the UI sucks...but what's new? But with all that faulty process accountability, this is what the audit found? So a $110M athletic department had an unauthorized $530 travel charge and 3 missing IPads that are probably, at most, a total of $1,000.

This looks a little sensational to me....
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Could be. But if you watch the news these days, a sense of proportion is something few seem to understand.

Hysteria is the theme of the day
 
SpiderRico said:
You look at the headline and think "Man, this looks terrible, I wonder how bad this is going to be?"

Then you read the article and it talks about a $530 overcharge on a trip, 3 IPads unaccounted for, a dept cell phone used for a few more days than it should, etc.

Are you kidding me with this? Sure, it once again appears that the process accountability at the UI sucks...but what's new? But with all that faulty process accountability, this is what the audit found? So a $110M athletic department had an unauthorized $530 travel charge and 3 missing IPads that are probably, at most, a total of $1,000.

This looks a little sensational to me....
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Yeah. I'm probably Barta's biggest critic and even I'm not willing to hang him over that report.
 
hawkdrummer1 said:
Could be. But if you watch the news these days, a sense of proportion is something few seem to understand.

Hysteria is the theme of the day
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Ya that audit has got me laughing. Go figure a bloated and loaded athletic department was cavalier with cell phones and tablets. I am shocked and appalled. I hope that any other investigations come back as trivial as this one.
 
This part doesn't bother anyone?
:The department’s IT director, Patrick Delin, left his job in February as auditors were nearing the conclusion of an inquiry that was sharply critical of his practices, Iowa confirmed this week.The report found an array of questionable practices in IT, where purchasing expenses skyrocketed by 43 percent in one year."

My reading of this shows more than 3 IPADS and seems to show a pattern of mismanagement in the Athletic Dept.
 
DMLadyhawk said:
This part doesn't bother anyone?
:The department’s IT director, Patrick Delin, left his job in February as auditors were nearing the conclusion of an inquiry that was sharply critical of his practices, Iowa confirmed this week.The report found an array of questionable practices in IT, where purchasing expenses skyrocketed by 43 percent in one year."

My reading of this shows more than 3 IPADS and seems to show a pattern of mismanagement in the Athletic Dept.
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There's no context here whatsoever. Why did they go up 43% in one year? Was there an overhaul of hardware? Was it the year when all football members got iPads instead of paper play books? Did they move hosting in house which would necessitate new servers? Did the new practice facility (with all the new coaches offices) get all new IT supplies? If the 43% was fraudulent, the report would have said so...but it merely said "expenses went up 43%". Guess what, my company had its greatest year ever 2 years ago where we doubled revenue and expenses went up about 57%. When revenue spikes, so do expenses.

So no, on the surface, expenses going up doesn't bother me at all when there's no context...
 
SpiderRico said:
There's no context here whatsoever. Why did they go up 43% in one year? Was there an overhaul of hardware? Was it the year when all football members got iPads instead of paper play books? Did they move hosting in house which would necessitate new servers? Did the new practice facility (with all the new coaches offices) get all new IT supplies? If the 43% was fraudulent, the report would have said so...but it merely said "expenses went up 43%". Guess what, my company had its greatest year ever 2 years ago where we doubled revenue and expenses went up about 57%. When revenue spikes, so do expenses.

So no, on the surface, expenses going up doesn't bother me at all when there's no context...
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Questionable practices, left his job....report was sharply critical
 
DMLadyhawk said:
Questionable practices, left his job....report was sharply critical
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Your beating the wrong war drum. This report was sensationalized to fit the slant of the author. It's open season on Iowa right now. The investigation was done by bean counters who would have been just as sharply critical if 1 cell phone was unaccounted for. Sure it shows a little dereliction on inventory management, but I work for a fortune 500 company that eats a whopping 4 million dollar loss every year from unaccounted for parts, tools and merchandise. I'm not saying it's great, but I don't see it as noteworthy considering that other more probative investigations are likely coming down the pipe. I suggest to thicken your skin.
 
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