"Doing it the right way!" Just try it. For quite a few years The Athletic Dept has been trying to it the right way. But what does the "RIGHT WAY" mean and is it a racist concept?
If it means expecting players that represent the university to behave responsibly in a social setting and avoid getting any form of notoriety then it maybe the crux of all the negative comments about the personnel in the football program. The instance a young man commits to playing football or basketball at The U of I they become a celebrity. If he or she is under 21, gets arrested for being in a bar illegally, it is automatically front page news above the fold.
So when an athlete, regardless of race, first steps on to campus they are in for a cultural shock. It is especially difficult for someone from the inner city to traverse into a world where the slightest deviancy from the "Right Way" gets you in trouble.
It is a real predicament for the athletic staff and personnel. The public pressure to keep the athlete out of trouble and out of the news conflicts with the culture many of these young people came from. Just how do you tell someone you can't act like that here when it has been perfectly OK where they came from? Yet they are expected too.
It is ironic that the City of Iowa City, a bastion of far left wing politics, has restrictive laws related to places where students congregate. The same people that cry out about racism are the same people that elect a city council to write restrictive laws and have them enforced.
Rob Howe can solicit the salacious and publish the comments because he believes it will somehow lead to better treatment of the athletes. The reality is that it is academia and the province of Iowa City that created the conditions for the comments. Just more hypocrisy by the utopians in Iowa City.