The Kallenberger stuff was definitely wrong. But is there anything else that causes you to call him a puke human being? My hunch was that Doyle walked around with a sense of complete autonomy and filled with hubris, and Brian took a shine to that approach. Which was particularly problematic given his already likely sense of entitlement as the coach's kid.
And then you had Wallace, who seemed to be good buddies with both of those guys and probably looked up to them. So while he had some good influences of Morgan and Parker around him, he also had Brian and Doyle rubbing off on him.
Like I said, only a hunch. Maybe that manifested with his treatment of Kallenberger?
Just curious if you've heard other things. It doesn't seem like a whole lot else has come out publicly.
I've been personally told other stuff about Wallace by a former player, but it'd give away the player's identity pretty easily if I said what it was. I will say it wasn't anything dealing with race and wasn't illegal.
That said, the Kallenberger situation is more than enough to call him a puke human being. That same former Iowa player told me more details on it, and it went
way beyond him calling Kallenberger Simple Jack. Wallace should thank the god of sawed-off little punks that Doyle was getting in trouble for way more serious stuff at the same time and took all the heat off him.
If Seth Wallace ever becomes head coach of the Iowa football team, I'm done paying attention to the program until he's gone. People here can write that down. I'll come back immediately when and if he leaves. As a person with a kid who has a lot of the same issues as Kallenberger I can't root for a team where that guy is in charge and supposed to be fostering the culture.
Mind you, my allegiance will always be with the Hawks. I just hope if he
does get to be head coach they go 0-22 and he gets fired as soon as possible.
Here's Seth Wallace's MO for anyone who doesn't remember...
Re: the "unnamed" coach in the below statement, he later confirmed it to be Wallace when other players came out in Kallenberger's defense and said it was him.
Seth Wallace, KF golden child numero dos, wrote a student's GPA (with a diagnosed learning disability) on a team whiteboard to intimidate and humiliate him. Ask any prof you know if they'd have a job 10 minutes after they got caught doing that.
Published directly by Jack Kallenberger:
"I post this not to take away from the issues my ex African American teammates have brought to light, but to shed more light on what really goes inside that football building. I also share this not out of a place of hate whatsoever. The University of Iowa and Iowa Football programs mean A LOT to me. I'm very proud to be a former Hawkeye. I believe it is necessary to create a better environment and culture for every player that will go through that program from today on. I've been debating sharing my story of how my time at Iowa played out since I left the program last January. Right now is a time where I felt uncomfortable sharing as the stories being shared by former players are all involving race. I did not want to take that spotlight away because the racial disparities need to be solved in that building. However, after speaking to a former teammate and close friend of mine who has shared his story, he encouraged me to all open up because now is a time of change for Iowa football. This is not easy for me, but it is necessary to share."
"I've struggled with ADHD all my life and have been on medication for as long as I can remember. People in the Iowa football program were aware of my learning disability. I enrolled at Iowa in June of 2017, and wasn't tested in the hospital for a learning disability until spring of 2018 (I also need to be tested to have access to medication). During that semester and a half period, I nearly failed out of Iowa because I struggled to pay attention in class, focus on my assigned readings, and not day dream during exams. All of these struggles were due to the chemical imbalance that hindered my ability to focus as the human brain should."
"The issues at Iowa began when a coach nicknamed me Simple Jack. For those unaware, Simple Jack is a mentally challenged character from the movie Tropic Thunder. I had never seen that move before but my coaches and teammates were quick to tell me exactly who Simple Jack was. One coach was great at jumping on opportunities to bring me down and make me feel dumb. Matt Nelson and I had a tradition of giving each other belly bumps before every game and practice. This coach made comments about my so-called 'lack of intelligence' most mornings on the practice field. This coach constantly told me how dumb I am. This same coach also constantly told my little brother [Iowa OL Mark Kallenberger] how dumb I am. This same coach also suggested we create a new sign for a defensive call because I was too stupid for the old one apparently. One coach wrote my semester GPA on his position room whiteboard (my parents didn't even know my GPA as consent laws protect it). I often struggled to hold conversations with Chris Doyle because he was another coach that enjoyed to remind me that I'm dumb. One Sunday after a lift, some guys and I were talking about movies that just came out. Doyle overheard this conversation and said 'Kallenberger, how about you open a (expletive) book instead of watching movies."
"We have to read a book as a team every January, assigned by the strength staff. We are quizzed over it once a week. I remember already being overwhelmed with school (learning curves are bigger for me due to my inability to focus so school took more time for me) and then had the anxiety of getting my pages read for this book quiz from the strength staff. I failed out first quiz over the put and Doyle said to me in the weight room, "is the book too hard, or are you too stupid?"
"I remember lying to Coach [Reese] Morgan's face on multiple occasions when he would see something was upsetting me. Before I quit football, Coach Morgan told me he was already planning on having me take reps to spare Chauncey Golston and AJ Epenesa at first string at defensive end in spring ball. That opportunity is the reason I came to Iowa. Being from Iowa, that was such a real dream of mine. Knowing that was a reality going into my final season made no difference. I again lied to Coach Morgan and told him I need to step away to focus on school. I quit football not because of school, but because I was broken, beat down, bullied, unwanted, and unloved. I was stripped of every ounce of self-confidence I had. I wouldn't speak in classes out of fear that I was going to be called dumb because that was my reality for two years in the Iowa football building. I was forced to forget about my learning disability (much like the coaches ignored it) and forced to believe that I was a stupid individual."
"At Iowa, if you don't fit the mold, you're an outcast and will be treated accordingly by many of the coaches on the staff. It is an environment where mistakes can be made, but you better not make any. It's an environment that causes crippling anxiety, something that [former Iowa DB] Manny Rugamaba mentioned in his own personal stories as well."