![]() ![]() “Everything pretty much (that) went into Iowa football, Doyle had some type of input into it. a COO strength coach in Doyle with year-round access to players, including via body monitors that tracked sleep patterns and activity away from the football building. Lomax describes Ferentz as being a Fortune 500-type CEO who is the face of the organization but has limited player interactions vs. ![]() Head coach Kirk Ferentz’s biggest mistake was delegating Doyle too much power. In short: There is perhaps no more impactful voice in moving this Iowa football/race conversation forward, and Lomax agreed to share his experiences and thoughts recently in a joint interview with The Des Moines Register and The Athletic.ĭuring the conversation that stretched about 75 minutes, these were some of the most revealing points, as ways to improve the Hawkeye program continue to be explored.ġ. Lomax later worked for the university as a fund-raiser, gaining new perspective on the business side of Hawkeye football. Lomax became an academic all-American and captain of the 2015 team that completed a 12-0 regular season and reached the Rose Bowl. During his five years as a player, he saw the arrival of 58 Black recruits - of which only 22 would finish their careers at Iowa (37.9%). A native of Prince George’s County in Maryland (a predominantly Black area just outside Washington, D.C.), Lomax was among 14 Black signees in Iowa’s 25-player recruiting class of 2011. Lomax is among the fraction of Black players from his era who “made it” at Iowa. “There's a lot of great men on that staff that have helped us out, that have families that have to put food on the table.” “The risk that you take when you go public is they can clean house, (and) we didn't want to see that,” Lomax says. The removal of longtime strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle, in a $1.1 million separation agreement.įormer defensive back Jordan Lomax also explains that the early-June airing of grievances was a final-straw effort by Black former players to draw attention to disparaging treatment from Doyle … something he tried to help solve behind the scenes three years earlier. With results of an outside investigation into racial bias within the Iowa football program expected to be revealed soon, perhaps this week, one of the most respected Hawkeyes of the past decade is confident that the biggest step toward lasting change has already occurred: ![]() Watch Video: Kirk Ferentz addresses 'hot-button' national-anthem topic ![]()
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