Recently, the state of Iowa’s highest paid public employee has been in the news for understandably trying to keep his budget tidy by politely declining his family’s share of road maintenance costs.
The battle between the Ferentz family and his neighbors is a rivalry that has all of the tenacity and tenure of the Iowa-Nebraska football rivalry that has been in place since the good ole’ days of 2011. This rivalry is so much more than that, however, as it was created by years of animosity from both parties instead of being completely fabricated by two Big 10 west teams desperately searching for meaning in a weak, watered-down division.