Iowa Football Visitors Locker Room

He had the visitors locker room.

Iowa football visitors locker room.

Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. A former faculty member said iowa could be open to legal challenge because of the locker room. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. High school and college programs at every level travel to stadiums and temporarily store their stuff in some really sad looking locker rooms.

Like all of it from the. Everything in the visiting team s locker room including the ceilings sinks and urinals has been painted pink a choice that iowa legend says was made by a football coach with a master s degree. In 2014 a professor organized a march in protest and wrote an op ed criticizing the tradition. The most famous visitor s locker room has to be in kinnick stadium where everything from the walls to the urinals and lockers are pink thanks to a special touch from former head coach haden fry put his degree in psychology to good use.

Iowa city iowa iowa s visiting football locker room received a michigan makeover saturday before the teams squared off in a prime time game at kinnick stadium. That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. The most notorious case of psychological locker room warfare can be found in iowa city. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating.