Another proud moment at Iowa

Athletics at the University of Iowa are a disgrace. Apparently the football program decided that it wanted to get down in the mud with Steve Alford's basketball team:

(Chicago Tribune) A number of college athletes, including several football players at Top 25 schools, are living in apartments set aside for the poorest Americans.

ESPN's "Outside the Lines" explores the subject Sunday.

The investigation found some of the most successful college programs have players living in subsidized housing, including Nebraska and Virginia Tech--which has 19 players living in a federally-subsidized complex in Blacksburg to house needy people.

As first brought to light by the Des Moines Register, dozens of full-scholarship Hawkeyes players, who received money for housing, paid little or no rent. Among them was offensive lineman Brian Ferentz, the son of Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, who was found to be living in an apartment subsidized by taxpayers.









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