Howe really has an accurate sense of the hawkeye football coaches and program.
Rob Howe at it again
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Rob Howe doesn't even have an accurate sense of himself..
You don't get it. You can settle for $5 or fight it out longer and end up paying $10 to the end. Which one you choosing?
Miller always came off as a pompous *** to me.
I would ask the Unabomber why in the hell would LeVar Woods and Bell, etc stay there as coaches if that stuff went on and was still going on? They could go anywhere they wanted.
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Yeah, Bell wouldn't put up with anything that even appeared racist
Defendants had already incurred almost $2M in fees at the time of settlement. Discovery was completed and the parties were on the eve of trial. Settlement at this point of litigation is usually a calculation -by both parties - of the probability of an adverse verdict and the amount of damages which may be awarded (if any).
Under a cost analysis, If Defendants were confident that they would prevail at trial and Plaintiffs would not be awarded damages, its finance common sense to incur an addition $250-500K at trial instead of agreeing to pay 8-10X that much ($4M) to settle the case.
It is also important to note that due to the unpredictable nature of juries and legitimate reasons other than cost, attorneys can be confident in the strength of their case and still seek settlement. As an outside observer, IMO the Defendants should have tried the case instead of settling.
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Rob says this, so where are his interviews with players rolling out of the program the last year or two? Certainly they would talk to him, right?
This. Anyone without an agenda would be able to see that racism is not an issue in the programs culture.
Not to drag up all that racism BS again, but Kirk’s unforgettable mistake was treating all his players the same. And in today’s world, that makes you racist. Unless you carve out special allowances for people of other races who can’t be expected to comport themselves with the same level of professionalism and respect as everyone else, then you aren’t respecting their culture or something.
It’s all a crock of $#*¥.
It’s all a crock of $#*¥.
I didn't click that click bait link, and won't. Rob Ho is possessed by a demon.
He should be banned from anything to do with college sports.
Oh my god just out of curiosity I looked up Rob Howe on X. His profile picture explains everything. El oh f****ng el.
Miller is a bigger cuck than Howe. They're both washed up, never has beens.
Miller and Deace were great podcasts. All football. I miss that. Then they both went off the deep end with politics. Just so weird. And scary. It could happen to any of us!
Add in the University was skittish after the outcome of the trial for Jane Meyer and Tracy Greisbalm where they were awarded millions so the University wanted it to go away even though the players recanted their accusations during pre trial interviews under oath. That’s why KF wanted to go to trial. He might of run a program where the coaches were mean and hard on the guys but they should have never made it personal while attacking players which Doyle, Wallace, and Brian Ferentz apparently did.
With regards to Rob Howe, opinions are like aholes, everyone has one. His just happens to be really big and runs head to toe.
Other than obliterating context--a particular Howe "skill"--he also manages to lie about winning a judgment rather than what was, in actuality, an out-of-court settlement.
Rob Howe: What we overlook when we celebrate Kirk Ferentz's wins - Little Village
Beth Goetz stepped to the Kinnick Stadium podium Saturday night with an announcement for Hawkeye Nation. “I gotta take the opportunity on behalf of the athletic department, the University of […]littlevillagemag.com
Miller went full-on left.
The worst was Miller and Howe one-upping each other on how poorly each of them mistreated minorities in their respective foggy pasts...
Miller: "I...used...the...N-word! (Hic...sob...sniffle)"
Howe: "I did it twice! Oh, God, I'm almost beyond hope! (Wail...sob...nose-blow)"
It was beyond pathetic. Two of the more blatant examples of wetting-thumb-and-testing-the-wind "journalism" one could ever witness..
Love it when ham-and-eggers tell us all how billionaires live...
Felicia Goodson flatly stated "Kirk Ferentz is not a racist. I've lived with racism my whole life. I know when someone is a racist, and Kirk Ferentz is definitely not racist".
Miller IS pompous and Rob is/was a Antifa supporter....true story
Name one single season during BFs tenure as OC that Iowa was remotely in the conversation to actually win a B1G Championship.
Because Miller made "an inaccurate statement", which some people might actually call a "lie".
I do not believe for one moment that KF is a racist, absolutely not. He did, however, apparently get a little lax with supervision of direct reports - Doyle specifically.
If you can’t answer that question for yourself, I’d probably log off for a while and touch grass. Bozo
Hawkeye Nation was my go to for years. Then Jon Miller left, someone I admired and respected. Ron Howe is a second rate hack. He is everything that is wrong with journalism today as a whole. He interjects his personal feeling into everything. **** that dude and his website.
It was my go to site for a long time. Howe drove a ton of people away during the racial bias issue in 2020, and the boards became a ghost town.
Yes! Some of this was on Twitter.
A favorite of mine was when Jon took one of his kids to some LBTRQ+ festival or whatever.
He also put someone with Down syndrome in charge of the boards ... went by the name of Fryowa if I recall correctly.
I don’t really know him, but one experience hinted at a lot about him in general.
I used to listen to his podcasts through HawkFanatic and even contributed to his mailbag show. At one point, though, I noticed his microphone was massively distorting - levels way too high, plus a lot of room echo. From what I’d seen on the Hotspot podcasts, it looked like he had a decent mic, so I figured maybe the input wasn’t set to the external mic and the gain was cranked up. I assumed someone would notice and fix it by the next episode, but nope.
Since there was no way to contact anyone directly through the site, I eventually emailed KCJJ. I politely explained the issue and asked if they could pass the message along. Someone at the station responded, thanked me, and said they’d relay it to Pat Harty. I don’t know if that worked, but the mic did sound normal again for a while. Then, about a week later, the same problem came back - worse than before. He even had an interview with Bobby Hanson like that. I remember thinking, holy ****, how embarrassing to have wrecked audio on such an important interview.
Finally, I replied under one of his podcast announcements on X. I complimented the show but politely mentioned the audio issue. He ignored it completely, even though he replied to and thanked other commenters. That made it clear this wasn’t just an oversight - he seemed to have a thin-skin issue that went way beyond normal.
What amazed me was that a radio station - and Pat Harty himself - didn’t notice, or that nobody stepped in to help with such a basic problem. That’s when it really struck me: something was off. I know he saw my note - he had used my mailbag questions several times before - yet the mic problem dragged on for another week. I tried listening, but it was so bad I just shut it off.
In the end, I stopped listening altogether and won’t tune in again to anything he does - or to HawkFanatic podcasts at all. It’s amazing to me that so much effort goes into lining up interviews, yet nobody catches such a blatant audio issue, or even thinks to run a simple sound check. Honestly, it says a lot about the people involved.
I used to listen to his podcasts through HawkFanatic and even contributed to his mailbag show. At one point, though, I noticed his microphone was massively distorting - levels way too high, plus a lot of room echo. From what I’d seen on the Hotspot podcasts, it looked like he had a decent mic, so I figured maybe the input wasn’t set to the external mic and the gain was cranked up. I assumed someone would notice and fix it by the next episode, but nope.
Since there was no way to contact anyone directly through the site, I eventually emailed KCJJ. I politely explained the issue and asked if they could pass the message along. Someone at the station responded, thanked me, and said they’d relay it to Pat Harty. I don’t know if that worked, but the mic did sound normal again for a while. Then, about a week later, the same problem came back - worse than before. He even had an interview with Bobby Hanson like that. I remember thinking, holy ****, how embarrassing to have wrecked audio on such an important interview.
Finally, I replied under one of his podcast announcements on X. I complimented the show but politely mentioned the audio issue. He ignored it completely, even though he replied to and thanked other commenters. That made it clear this wasn’t just an oversight - he seemed to have a thin-skin issue that went way beyond normal.
What amazed me was that a radio station - and Pat Harty himself - didn’t notice, or that nobody stepped in to help with such a basic problem. That’s when it really struck me: something was off. I know he saw my note - he had used my mailbag questions several times before - yet the mic problem dragged on for another week. I tried listening, but it was so bad I just shut it off.
In the end, I stopped listening altogether and won’t tune in again to anything he does - or to HawkFanatic podcasts at all. It’s amazing to me that so much effort goes into lining up interviews, yet nobody catches such a blatant audio issue, or even thinks to run a simple sound check. Honestly, it says a lot about the people involved.
Miller owns his own energy trading business. He’s in Bluesky now and post about Royals baseball, music, and the Hawks from time to time.
Steve Alford tried to get him to stop writing negative articles. He asked Jon to come meet with him at Carver and when he got there it was just Steve and his Dad Sam. Miller talked about it in a podcast.
Howe I believe lost access to Kinnick around rahbdo for a year.