Poll: Would you go to games if this happened here?

Would you go to games, etc if the PSU scandal happened at Iowa?

  • Yes

    Votes: 25 38.5%

  • No

    Votes: 40 61.5%
  • Total voters
    65
hoffahawk said:
Not trying to be an a$$, but just don't use that view if you don't want to see them. Go to the football forum, off topic, basketball, etc.

For me, there can't be enough threads or enough talk about the topic. For 14 years (and now there is evidence of possibly 20-30+ years) a school covered up a serial child rapist. I think it isn't too much to ask for you to click on the actual forums or topics you want to discuss.

Let's hope all of this "talk" will give someone enough courage to come forward if they suspect an abuse. Even if it saved one innocent kid from getting raped I think it's well worth you having to alter how you view forums on this website.
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Great post.

And...this is an enormous story, with serious consequences that might even relate to how Iowa plays football (conference stuff, schedule, etc).

This is the biggest sports related scandal...maybe ever?

This whole event is a case study in cowardice and failed leadership. There is just so much to learn about how NOT to do something if you are a leader in an organization. I kinda think they'll be studying this in various disciplines, in different grad schools, for years.
 
racerhawk said:
Great post.

And...this is an enormous story, with serious consequences that might even relate to how Iowa plays football (conference stuff, schedule, etc).

This is the biggest sports related scandal...maybe ever?

This whole event is a case study in cowardice and failed leadership. There is just so much to learn about how NOT to do something if you are a leader in an organization. I kinda think they'll be studying this in various disciplines, in different grad schools, for years.
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It's especially relevant to us. PSU is in our conference, on our schedule, and (tentatively) bringing their pedo-enabling freak show to our campus in October.

That in addition to the huge societal implications you eruditely proffered.
 
hoffahawk said:
Not trying to be an a$$, but just don't use that view if you don't want to see them. Go to the football forum, off topic, basketball, etc.

For me, there can't be enough threads or enough talk about the topic. For 14 years (and now there is evidence of possibly 20-30+ years) a school covered up a serial child rapist. I think it isn't too much to ask for you to click on the actual forums or topics you want to discuss.

Let's hope all of this "talk" will give someone enough courage to come forward if they suspect an abuse. Even if it saved one innocent kid from getting raped I think it's well worth you having to alter how you view forums on this website.
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Ok fair enough. I agree with everything you say, but I'm not trying to negate the relevance of this story. I simply recognize that every piece of media in this county touches this story on an every day basis, or every show basis. It is being exposed, probably even on the international level. And I dont mean to minimize that whatsoever. Also, this is absolutely the most boring time of the year for college sports, so it stands out on this site in that way too.
 
I would still attend/watch only if all involved were gone and punished accordingly. then I would want a new tigerhawk, uniform, stadium music, everything. a completely fresh start. right now seeing anything psu makes me sick, I hope they do a complete overhaul of everything Joe pa.
 
ThunderHawk said:
It's especially relevant to us. PSU is in our conference, on our schedule, and (tentatively) bringing their pedo-enabling freak show to our campus in October.

That in addition to the huge societal implications you eruditely proffered.
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Ah, but alas, I'm not the winner of the most erudite poster on HN award. There is, however, hope for the future.
 
IowaTeddy said:
Ok fair enough. I agree with everything you say, but I'm not trying to negate the relevance of this story. I simply recognize that every piece of media in this county touches this story on an every day basis, or every show basis. It is being exposed, probably even on the international level. And I dont mean to minimize that whatsoever. Also, this is absolutely the most boring time of the year for college sports, so it stands out on this site in that way too.
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Fair enough.
 
Thanks for participating in the poll, guys.

So, 78% of die-hard hawks would stop watching the hawks if this sort of atrocity happened here. That's significant.
 
This poll is nothing more than a dramatization of what happened at PSU. It didnt happen at Iowa, why worry about it. Too much drama in this world now a days.

Taht said, what happened there goes well beyond atrocious.
 
I wouldn't attend if our response was even close to what PSU's response has been so far.

A different response from the U of I, which I'd expect, and I would probably attend.
 
No. I couldn't watch of cheer for iowa ever again if something like this happened. I would move on to other interests. there is no way to rectify a cover up of this magnitude. Removing those even remotely involved would be too little too late and reek of nothing more than a campaign to save image.

Now if something terrible like this happened and the program and University took action immediately, that's another story.
 
brach700 said:
This poll is nothing more than a dramatization of what happened at PSU. It didnt happen at Iowa, why worry about it. Too much drama in this world now a days.

Taht said, what happened there goes well beyond atrocious.
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"It didn't happen at Iowa, why worry about it."

Worry about it because it happened in a little college town where a sport(s) is king just like almost every other B1G university and several other universities around the country. It's not so much about it specifically being Iowa, it's more about the culture around these types of athletic programs, like Iowa. It's about an athletic culture becoming too large and too powerful where it allows for terrible atrocities to take place. In the case of Penn State, the football-first culture allowed for horrible decisions to be made and a child-rapist to run rampant for decades.
 
Golfer said:
I wouldn't attend if our response was even close to what PSU's response has been so far. A different response from the U of I, which I'd expect, and I would probably attend.
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Given Iowa's recent glimmering displays of PR and damage control gone wrong, how many have confidence that we would handle a scenario of this magnitude with anything less than confusing incompetence?
 
I think lots of people saying "no" would have a hard time putting their money where their mouth is if something like this (God forbid) ever happened at Iowa.

When it's "YOUR" school, you can contrive all sorts of reasons why it's OK (I'm supporting the entity which goes so far beyond any one person/incident program, I'm supporting the current student athletes, etc, etc, etc). It's just the way it is.
 
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