I've made a cursory attempt to try and validate and/or refute the claim that Kirk Ferentz's program has been worse off than Jim Tressel's ... so here we go.
I'm not going to spend man-years researching this, because frankly, I don't care enough. But a simple Google search combined with some searches of Iowa newspapers revealed the following.
Oh, and I'm not judging Ferentz or calling for his head or any some-such-nonsense, just like I wouldn't in Tressel's case. The bulk of the arrests parallel
OSU, open container, public intox, disorderly conduct-type misdemeanors. Regardless, I'd like to hear Trev's opinion on his prima-donna coach now?!
July 2000 (http://128.255.60.56/cgi-bin/ArchiveIQue.acgi$rec=49739-171313)
[ 0] Maurice Brown -
[ 0] Fred Barr - plead guilty to a simple assault that they were charged for on July first of 2000.
OK - I'm not going to count them because this occurs in 2000, and I'm only looking to count players charged from 2001 onward, since the argument is comparison of Ferentz/Iowa and Tressel/
OSU. The reason I am noting these two clowns though is that Mo Brown will make another appearance in the next group of players, and he still was never punished beyond a game or two suspension. In fact, it's obscene how many are repeat offenders who not only continued to start, but lettered and made All-American.
October 2001 (http://128.255.60.56/cgi-bin/ArchiveIQue.acgi$rec=57457-171313)
[??] Undisclosed number of players involved in a bar fight. [no notable disciplinary actions ultimately taken]
Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
[ 1] Bob Sanders - drunken driving offense.
[ 2] Maurice Brown - drunken driving offense.
[ 3] Siaka Massaquoi - drunken driving offense. [dismissed from the team]
[ 4] C.J. Jones - drunken driving offense.
(http://128.255.60.56/cgi-bin/ArchiveIQue.acgi$rec=111599-171313)
[ 5] Scott Boleyn - convicted on six charges between Sept. 1999 and April 2002. Four of those charges came from one night.
[ 6] Jacob Bowers - convicted three times for consumption/intoxication.
July 2002 (http://128.255.60.56/cgi-bin/ArchiveIQue.acgi$rec=64894-171313)
[ 7] Dereck Robinson - possession of marijuana.
[ 8] Mike Follett - possession of alcohol under the legal age.
[ 9] Blake Larsen - charged with possession of alcohol under the legal age.
August 2002 (
http://www.press-citizen.com/opinion...edit080702.htm)
[10] Benny Sapp - charges of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and public intoxication after police saw him push a woman into a building. [Sapp was later dismissed from the team].
September 2002
[11] C.J. Barkema - arrested for fourth-degree criminal mischief.
April 2003 (
http://www.hawkcentral.com/teams/foo...040903bars.htm)
[12] Matt Roth - charged with public intoxication and using false identification at an Iowa City bar. Iowa City Police said Roth was involved in a fight with bar employees. [At the time of the incident, Roth was 20].
[13] Chris Smith - charged with disorderly conduct after Iowa City Police were called to a fight at the Union Bar.
August 2003
[14] Sam Aiello - disciplinary action taken, though no criminal charges were apperently ever filed.
[ 7] Dereck Robinson (two time nominee!) - Disciplinary action taken, though no criminal charges were apperently ever filed.
Iowa linemen Sam Aiello and Derreck Robinson were cited for "conduct detrimental to the team" and suspended for one and two games, respectively. According to Ferentz, both players violated team policy during the spring semester.
May 2004 (
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?...s&c=32,1027808)
[15] Marques Simmons - leading rusher in the Hawkeyes’ spring game, charged with drunken driving. University of Iowa police arrested Simmons near the Biology Building in downtown Iowa City.
February 2005
[16] Antwan Allen - charged for allegedly striking a man on the side of the head, breaking his jaw and knocking him unconscious in a Nov 28 incident, more than a month before he played in the Capital One Bowl.