Dolphin Controversy Already Impacting Recruiting

[ObeseMuffins]

Yet, another thread about the Dolphin controversy. Say what you want about the suspension, but our fan base needs to check ourselves on how we're responding to it all. We can defend Dolphin, but we must also try to listen to the people who are upset, namely Xavier Foster's father. IMHO, Foster will never be Hawkeye, and maybe he was never going to be, but especially not after how our fan base is responding to all of this. Could you blame Mr. DaJuan Foster? SMH, this will negatively impact recruiting. Discuss!

https://www.press-citizen.com/story...ace-relations-bias-bruno-fernando/3009025002/

And if you want this conversation to stick to just sports for a minute, this story might resonate: There were Iowa fans on Twitter engaging DaJuan Foster, the father of five-star recruit Xavier Foster of Oskaloosa, and trying to convince him — a black man — that he shouldn't be offended by Dolphin’s comment.

That’s not the look you want as a fan base — to be telling a black athlete’s father what he should think. That's not the look you want as a human being.

At least one tweet to me this week demanded that I try to find just one black person who was offended by Dolphin’s comparison — as if all black people must think alike.

"That’s the bigger point is the experience and the pain associated with the reference," DaJuan Foster tweeted. “But some people don’t want to understand. All I want to do is educate. But one must be open to listen.”

 

[TailgateTom]

Yawn. If he’s making Xavier’s decision based on what twitter says I won’t lose any sleep over him going elsewhere.

 

[fivec61]

If Mr Foster wants to make a difference he should advise Xavier to go to Iowa and be part of a change in any wrong racial thinking he believes is happening in Iowa. Be a beacon of enlightenment.

Opportunities like this do not come around too often. Go get em. Call Nike and get them on board. Xavier could make a real name for himself.

 

[statelyred]

If Mr Foster wants to make a difference he should advise Xavier to go to Iowa and be part of a change in any wrong racial thinking he believes is happening in Iowa. Be a beacon of enlightenment.

Opportunities like this do not come around too often. Go get em. Call Nike and get them on board. Xavier could make a real name for himself.

He will make a name for himself in the state of Iowa. It will be a Red letter day when he does.

 

[HaydenHawk8]

Xavier Foster will be a non factor for Iowa. The kid isn’t that great. Patrick is way better and has the body to play div 1 than foster !

Who cares.

 

[And1Hawk]

He will make a name for himself in the state of Iowa. It will be a Red letter day when he does.

Who cares

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

He will make a name for himself in the state of Iowa. It will be a Red letter day when he does.

Nah, Iowa State is not worth Foster's time.

 

[rufus-hawk]

If Mr Foster wants to make a difference he should advise Xavier to go to Iowa and be part of a change in any wrong racial thinking he believes is happening in Iowa. Be a beacon of enlightenment.

Opportunities like this do not come around too often. Go get em. Call Nike and get them on board. Xavier could make a real name for himself.

Sounds like he’s already tried, but people refuse to listen.

 

[HoustonHawkeye]

And who is to say that the person engaging with Foster's dad is actually a Hawkeye fan. The Hawkeye blogs and twitter doesn't always reveal the real truth or person. There are good people and idiots with every fan base and there are imposters on every fan base stirring up the pot.

 

[HawkeyeLaker]

And who is to say that the person engaging with Foster's dad is actually a Hawkeye fan. The Hawkeye blogs and twitter doesn't always reveal the real truth or person. There are good people and idiots with every fan base and there are imposters on every fan base stirring up the pot.

Who knows, maybe it's the Russians tweeting at the Foster's. We know they hate Iowa because Dan Gable used to kick their A$$.

 

[iahawkeyes17]

Yet, another thread about the Dolphin controversy. Say what you want about the suspension, but our fan base needs to check ourselves on how we're responding to it all. We can defend Dolphin, but we must also try to listen to the people who are upset, namely Xavier Foster's father. IMHO, Foster will never be Hawkeye, and maybe he was never going to be, but especially not after how our fan base is responding to all of this. Could you blame Mr. DaJuan Foster? SMH, this will negatively impact recruiting. Discuss!

https://www.press-citizen.com/story...ace-relations-bias-bruno-fernando/3009025002/

And if you want this conversation to stick to just sports for a minute, this story might resonate: There were Iowa fans on Twitter engaging DaJuan Foster, the father of five-star recruit Xavier Foster of Oskaloosa, and trying to convince him — a black man — that he shouldn't be offended by Dolphin’s comment.

That’s not the look you want as a fan base — to be telling a black athlete’s father what he should think. That's not the look you want as a human being.

At least one tweet to me this week demanded that I try to find just one black person who was offended by Dolphin’s comparison — as if all black people must think alike.

"That’s the bigger point is the experience and the pain associated with the reference," DaJuan Foster tweeted. “But some people don’t want to understand. All I want to do is educate. But one must be open to listen.”

If he doesn't pick Iowa it won't be because of this incident with a few dumb fans tweeting his father about Dolph's remarks trying to back him up.

 

[ih8iast8]

He will make a name for himself in the state of Iowa. It will be a Red letter day when he does.

Felony?

 

[hawkeye_1997]

People who tweet recruits and their family creep me out. Equally recruits who want to connect to an entire fan base is weird to me.

 

[LetsGoHawks83]

If he doesn't pick Iowa it won't be because of this incident with a few dumb fans tweeting his father about Dolph's remarks trying to back him up.

This. Social Media is so dumb MOST of the time.

 

[RocknRollface]

If there are people offended at Dolphs comment, I would not tell them they shouldn't be offended.

I would tell them that I dont give a shit if it offends you. That's your problem you're choosing for yourself.

 

[ctghawk]

I would love for someone to call me King Kong.

 

[HawkLogic]

Whatever..... Fran should offer the father an assistant coaching job and then I don't think it will matter what some twitter dumb azz said.

 

[GunnerHawk]

The Foster family has lived in Oskaloosa and know that Iowans are good, hard working people. I grew up in Iowa in the early 70's and we had two African-American families in our town of 22,000 people, we never thought differently about them. It wasn't until I moved to Chicago did I see bias towards black and whites. Truly sad.

Hope Xavier and his family realize that Iowa is a good place to be.

 

[SotaHawk87]

Then he should go to UNC, Kentucky, Kansas where they FOR SURRRRE understand race relations..

 

[doughuddl2]

Yet, another thread about the Dolphin controversy. Say what you want about the suspension, but our fan base needs to check ourselves on how we're responding to it all. We can defend Dolphin, but we must also try to listen to the people who are upset, namely Xavier Foster's father. IMHO, Foster will never be Hawkeye, and maybe he was never going to be, but especially not after how our fan base is responding to all of this. Could you blame Mr. DaJuan Foster? SMH, this will negatively impact recruiting. Discuss!

https://www.press-citizen.com/story...ace-relations-bias-bruno-fernando/3009025002/

And if you want this conversation to stick to just sports for a minute, this story might resonate: There were Iowa fans on Twitter engaging DaJuan Foster, the father of five-star recruit Xavier Foster of Oskaloosa, and trying to convince him — a black man — that he shouldn't be offended by Dolphin’s comment.

That’s not the look you want as a fan base — to be telling a black athlete’s father what he should think. That's not the look you want as a human being.

At least one tweet to me this week demanded that I try to find just one black person who was offended by Dolphin’s comparison — as if all black people must think alike.

"That’s the bigger point is the experience and the pain associated with the reference," DaJuan Foster tweeted. “But some people don’t want to understand. All I want to do is educate. But one must be open to listen.”

You'd let a few idiots change your dreams. You are weak.

 

[DewHawk]

Xavier Foster will be a non factor for Iowa. The kid isn’t that great. Patrick is way better and has the body to play div 1 than foster !

Who cares.

I kind of have to agree with this from what I have seen, albeit limited. H***. I thought Moss was going to be great, but unfortunately only every 20th game or so.

 

[Suterman]

Xavier Foster will be a non factor for Iowa. The kid isn’t that great. Patrick is way better and has the body to play div 1 than foster !

Who cares.

PMac and Xavier are completely different players with completely different skill sets. I think they would play very well together and be very complementary.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Speaking of which, where is Tyreke Locure going?

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

Everyone bitching about Fran should spend a lot more time bitching about Barta, who is the source of many of Iowa's problems recruiting.

 

[blhawk]

You'd let a few idiots change your dreams. You are weak.

There's way more than a few idiots if they've checked this board in the last week. Embarrassing. Some will never listen

 

[iahawkeyes17]

Then he should go to UNC, Kentucky, Kansas where they FOR SURRRRE understand race relations..

Great point. Lot of people don't realize Kentucky plays in Rupp arena named after their old successful but very racist former coach.

 

[BlackNGoldBleeder]

Yawn. If he’s making Xavier’s decision based on what twitter says I won’t lose any sleep over him going elsewhere.

I agree to a large extent but at the same time we have too many idiots in our fan base.

And last, no one has the right to tell Mr. Foster how to think. I disagree that Dolph was trying to use a racial slur, but if someone is offended by it that's their right too. And I don't want to hear the whole liberal snowflake bullshit because righties are just as mentally weak and pussified as the left.

Mr. Foster gets a voice like anyone else. Not directed at you, but goddamn some of our fans sometimes. It's fuggin' embarrassing. I know, I know, it's everywhere, but Iowa fans should be smarter and better than the rest.

 

[CuttyDoesIt]

Hes a black guy living in Iowa. Im sure he isnt suprised

 

[BBHawk]

What Dolphin said probably won't make an impact. The idiotic outcry from some that there is nothing to take offense from will.

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Xavier Foster has the size and strength of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Racist?

 

[grayhair81]

He will make a name for himself in the state of Iowa. It will be a Red letter day when he does.

Yeah because Ames and your fanbase are waaaay more enlightened than us taven Iowa fans. Like the old fart that was gonna put the beatdown on the ref.

 

[RocknRollface]

Hes a black guy living in Iowa. Im sure he isnt suprised

Lol , probably the least offensive area of the country possible.

 

[CuttyDoesIt]

Lol , probably the least offensive area of the country possible.

Sounds like a white guy from iowa

 

[CowboyKiller141]

Sounds like a white guy from iowa

What bullshit little town are you from? You sound like a ignorant white guy from rural Iowa.

 

[grayhair81]

This. Social Media is so dumb MOST of the time.

Honest to God-what has Twitter done to improve the world? I can't think of anything.

 

[CuttyDoesIt]

What bullshit little town are you from? You sound like a ignorant white guy from rural Iowa.

Non-White guy from Davenport

 

[HawkPT]

Everyone bitching about Fran should spend a lot more time bitching about Barta, who is the source of many of Iowa's problems recruiting.

Yes! That's what we need. More bitching.

 

[WildIowaCat]

I would highly suggest to anyone to drop any conversation with anyone regarding race for the foreseeable future. The amount of ignorance and hatred being perpetuated by people is astounding. And no I don’t just mean white dudes.

Just be good to other people, and avoid this debate at all costs. Because nobody wins, this whole discussion isn’t coming from some benign desire to improve relations as some will say. It is a multifaceted effort by several different groups of special interests and likely including some foreign actors to divide and destroy this country.

The idea that there was any significant and tangible organized racist element in this nation circa 2016 was a theory relegated to extreme leftist echo chambers until political operatives, foreign operatives, and media hype mongers created the reality we have today.

There was a reason the overwhelming strategy prior to this recent disgusting show of ignorance was to ignore and marginalize. It’s extremely effective!
Now, rather than marginalizing these elements we are creating an element where there are ugly counter elements and the cancer just spreads and intensifies.

But of course that’s the plan.

 

[kcgolfer]

Foster will be a Hawkeye.

 

[RocknRollface]

I would highly suggest to anyone to drop any conversation with anyone regarding race for the foreseeable future. The amount of ignorance and hatred being perpetuated by people is astounding. And no I don’t just mean white dudes.

Just be good to other people, and avoid this debate at all costs. Because nobody wins, this whole discussion isn’t coming from some benign desire to improve relations as some will say. It is a multifaceted effort by several different groups of special interests and likely including some foreign actors to divide and destroy this country.

The idea that there was any significant and tangible organized racist element in this nation circa 2016 was a theory relegated to extreme leftist echo chambers until political operatives, foreign operatives, and media hype mongers created the reality we have today.

There was a reason the overwhelming strategy prior to this recent disgusting show of ignorance was to ignore and marginalize. It’s extremely effective!
Now, rather than marginalizing these elements we are creating an element where there are ugly counter elements and the cancer just spreads and intensifies.

But of course that’s the plan.

Absolutely spot on.