Or doesn't. But Mary thinks it should:
The board took no action Thursday. But supervisors did schedule a work session to further discuss the issue at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 29.
That date upset Mary Ferentz, wife of Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz, who said her property, along with Dooley's, would be the most disrupted. She said it is well known that her family would be out of town at the time because of the Iowa bowl game.
The Newport Road folks are playing their ace in the hole exactly wrong by making Mary Ferentz so public. If they were smarter they'd be working behind the scenes, winning over the big-money movers and shakers who are big University donors and football fans, lining up some private conversations along the lines of: "If that road gets built our top twenty coach will go straight to the NFL, and if that happens my checkbook closes up." Hardball? Sure - what's your point?
Instead they've played Mary Ferentz as a point person, and gotten some public backlash and resentment as a result. The Ferentz thing is a distraction from the larger development issues.
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