Coker goes off for 219 yards then 1500 the next year.. then leaves. Anyone have the scoop why he left? Wasn’t it something to do with the cops or being blamed for something?
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Heard from someone who heard from someone in-the-know that Coker was accused of some extremely minor Me Too stuff and Sally Mason wanted to make an example of him. Apparently Kirk Ferentz wasn't too happy with her after hearing all the facts. We know Kirk doesn't tolerate kids screwing up and it speaks volumes that he sided with Coker if what I've heard is true. I trust that Coker got a bad deal here.
EDIT - CR Gazette story linked here.
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Having lived in Missouri the past 26 yrs and surrounded by Mizzou fans, I always like seeing threads about the 2010 Insight Bowl.
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I went to this bowl like most. Think mizzou was ranked fairly high.
My biggest takeaway from the game was we should have pursued
Mizzou to join the big 10 bs nebby.
Much hotter women and more tvs.
Sure would be nice if BTN would play something other than that game.
Hey, at least it's not 2007 vs. MSU. That thing's been shown more times than Wizard of Oz...
TJ Moe had a career day torching our LBs that day. Reminded me of Welker, Edelman, etc. abusing my Steelers every time they meet except a happier ending.
That game was literally the most boring double overtime game in the history of sports.
Christensen had like 22 yards of passing in regulation. I didn’t know that was possible.
Plus that Iowa team was horrible & didn’t make a bowl iirc.
You recall correctly. After a decent win over Minnesota, they blew it against Western Michigan.
The original charge against Coker was not "extremely minor," unless you consider sexual assault to be extremely minor. Did Coker get a raw deal? Hard to tell. A female student went to the hospital, and Coker left when he could have stayed (after serving a suspension). What does that tell you? Perhaps there was no lawsuit because there was no basis for a lawsuit? Or perhaps he just wanted to move on and not deal with the hassle of a lawsuit? Or for some other reason. In the end, we're supposed to believe it was Sally Mason's fault because someone who knew someone else said so? Somehow this kid's behavior issue, whatever it was (minimally a violation of the student code) was HER fault? Not buying it, in part because it was fashionable in the day to blame Mason for just about everything. Without evidence. Did Mason swoop in on this situation and overrule everyone else because of some student behavior principle? Possible. Would she have been wrong in doing so? Hard to tell without more information. One might just as well ask whether Ferentz wanted Coker disciplined ... to send a message to his team or because he didn't want the stain of Coker's accuser hanging over the program, or for similar reasons. Or that Coker left because the accuser chose to not press charges if he agreed to leave campus.
I don't think we will ever know exactly what did or didn't happen with the Coker situation. I do know this was a period of time where the team and university were upping the ante on player expectations following the fallout from the City Boyz fiasco and other incidents like Satterfield and Everson. It was also a time when national attention was rightly being directed at sexual assaults on campuses.
Mizzou was #14 at the time.
I have the KC Star sports page from the day after the game taped up in my garage-make sure all my Mizzou neighbors notice it when they come over.
And it featured all time Hawkeye great and legend Jevon Pugh scoring the winning TD...
They’re replaying Iowa/Nebraska on Thursday early in the morning. I’ve seen replays of pinstripe bowl, Ohio State game and 2016 Michigan game recently. It appears they’ve finally decided to move on 2007 MSU...
I can't say one way or the other, but Kirk has a history of treating rule breakers pretty sternly. If he thought Coker got a raw deal, then I'm guessing the whole thing got blown out of proportion. Coker also had a squeaky clean background as well. Whether it was Mason or not, who knows. Her actions in other cases (crack down on tailgating, for example), indicate she had no love of the football program.
While there's no hard evidence, signs point a certain way and, in the absence of other info, I'm inclined to go with where the signs indicate. If anyone has a problem with that, they can feel free to provide data to the contrary. So far, nobody has.
And it featured all time Hawkeye great and legend Jevon Pugh scoring the winning TD...
And Paul Chaney Jr scoring what would be his only Iowa TD as well. It's a credit to that team after Brodell and Moeaki got hurt that they even put themselves in a position to make a bowl game, even if the defense laid an egg the last game and missed out in the end.
I think Pugh didn't make grades and/or homesick so he gone that winter. Didn't Chaney score on a long 3rd down in the first OT IIRC? Yeah, watching Jake C. back there throw bounce passes was really painful, still wondering if he had a case of the yips or was just that bad, wow..
Refresh my memory, who else was at QB that year, was Stanzi a true fresh? Arvell Nelson?
Mason's "crackdown on tailgating" was a direct response to serious tailgate drinking issues going at a time when the University was trying to deal with the bigger picture--serious on-campus drinking issues by students. Way too many students at the nation's #1 ranked party school were drinking themselves silly, posing a real danger to themselves and potentially others. Even if they graduated without arrest or worse, the abusive drinking behaviors they learned in college would inevitably follow them as they transitioned to a post-graduate life. Something had to be done. Complaints were pouring in. Mason was in charge, yes, but it probably didn't matter; action of some sort would have been taken by any responsible president. Was enforcement well-handled around Kinnnick, on the ground level, by authorities hired to do the job? It couldn't have been easy, and I have no idea but it's obvious that many fans were clearly upset--and still are upset--by the way things were handled. Maybe they're right to be upset. Or maybe fans had gotten used to the idea of a "hands off" approach to tailgate drunkenness and resented the idea that a crackdown was occurring. Maybe it was a combination of things. But the idea that Sally Mason--who faithfully attended Hawkeye football games and schmoozed the big donors with the best of 'em--was a villainous football hater just doesn't add up. Maybe Mason was stuck with an out-of-control drinking culture. Surely she understood that taking action might be unpopular with some fans (not the fans who were complaining about drunkenness, of course). Surely she knew that any misstep would undermine her shaky status with the Regents and/or those stingy, lovable lawmakers who were, and are, hell-bent on defunding our universities. At the end of the day, I would imagine she saw herself as president of an important and prestigious center of research and learning, not the enabler of a dangerous campus drinking culture or "win at all costs" athletic department where fans get to behave however they want.
Binge drinking is common on any college campus. #1 Party School? Do you know how we got that ranking? For having the most alchohol related arrests. The irony is that strict policies and enforcement was part of the reason we earned that ranking! I had kids at Iowa during that time. They don't drink, but their take was that drinking was common but blown way out of proportion. People see the tailgating (especially by the students) and assume it's not happening anywhere else. The Ranking was just fuel on that fire.
Ricky was a redshirt frosh in 2007, and has repeatedly stated since then that he wasn't ready to play in 2007.
Nelson was second string, Stanzi was third (and looked horrible in his garbage snaps vs Syracuse) but neither was really ready to play at all. It's really tough to judge Jake C based on that year. He looked great against Syracuse with our full receiving crew, then in the blink of an eye he had DJK, James Cleveland, and Paul Chaney who were all redshirt freshman that year as receivers and Brandon Myers who had all of one catch in his first two years before that. Obviously Myers and DJK ended up pretty good, but they were all so green at that point there wasn't much to work with even before the lack of chemistry/reps. And Trey Stross seemed to have good chemistry with Jake, but he couldn't stay healthy for more than a game or two at a time. Young and Sims were never both healthy at the same time either. It was a scrambled mess of an offense, and yet they gelled enough to win four of their last five B10 games to go .500 in conference before that unfortunate senior day.
Mason was the covergirl for PC Correct.
Only good thing that happened was the large donation that came in to schools with women presidents. The UI Foundation guys got great stories about that.
She saw many of UI’s rankings go down (always with an excuse), blew the flood preperation, killed tailgating, etc, etc.
Somewhat funny thing is the thing she got the most grief on was her harrasment comment where she was probably right.
Anyway i’ll stick with my earlier post. Coker got screwed by the school and should have sued.
I agree with both you and Kinnick4Ever, in that SM probably takes too much heat for the "tailgating crackdown," but that doesn't mean that she wasn't an awful university president overall (especially compared to her 3 predecessors). Iowa's academic rankings really suffered under her watch, and her take on sexual assault on campus was indefensible.
