LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HAYDEN FRY STATUE

A statue of the famed Iowa coach is a great idea, but does this particular design capture the unique elan of Hayden Fry?

You may have heard that the City of Coralville has plans to unveil a Hayden Fry statue at this year's FRY Fest. Broadly speaking, this is wonderful news. If any figure in Iowa sports has acquired the status of an icon worthy of statue-fication (and is not named Nile Kinnick), it's Hayden Fry. But about the specific statue design... It is a good likeness of the lantern-jawed, aviator-wearing Hayden in his classic period, but, assuming the final product resembles this working model, I see two potential problems:

1) The proportions

This is something that may change in the final…