Black Heart Gold Pants · Mar 1, 2019
Dolph, Fran, and “Iowa Nice”
Hawkeye basketball fans were confronted with two significant announcements from Iowa athletic director Gary Barta on Wednesday. The first announcement was viewed by many as a welcome relief; Gary Dolphin, the “Voice of the Iowa Hawkeyes,” will be re-instated at the beginning of spring football after being suspended for the remainder of the 2018-19 basketball season for referring to Maryland sophomore Bruno Fernando, a native of Angola, as “King Kong.” Barta also announced that head coach Fran McCaffery will serve a two-game suspension for his profanity-laced verbal confrontation with official Steve McJunkins after Iowa’s loss to Ohio State in which McCaffery accused McJunkins of foul play.