Gary Barta has come under much fire over his tenure as athletics director at the University of Iowa. By and large, that scrutiny has been entirely warranted. This is, after all, the man who hired Todd Lickliter.
If the slip ups began and ended with a single brutally bad hire, perhaps a mulligan would be granted. Unfortunately for both Barta and the Iowa Hawkeyes, the issues run far deeper than that. Our very own Jordan Hansen has done a tremendous job of holding Barta’s feet to the fire from the Title IX issues a year ago to his most recent issue - the handling of the Gary Dolphin incident(s).