We intended to communicate to the Iowa State community what we knew. We intended to let you, the reader, decide how Davis' score should be interpreted. We intended to put out a complete news product. One caller asked why we would print something negative about Davis, a man who perhaps more than anyone, helped put Iowa State on the football map. That, I thought, was an easy one.
Bad things happen to good people.
Unfair things happen to good people. Simply because Iowa State owes much to Davis and his accomplishments as one of the greatest college running backs in history doesn't mean he's immune to negative news coverage. And conversely, if Davis' and Kohn's scores were transposed, we would have reported that as well. The extremity of Davis' score also contributed to the play of the article. The average score on this test is a 19.