College sports: Who’s being saved?
Retired business reporter Dan Piller examines the evolving landscape of collegiate athletics at Iowa’s two largest public universities. The piece questions who truly benefits from recent financial and structural changes within the system, exploring the impact on student-athletes and institutional priorities.
Dan Piller was a business reporter for more than four decades, working for the Des Moines Register and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He covered the oil and gas industry while in Texas and was the Register’s agriculture reporter before his retirement in 2013. He lives in Ankeny. A visitor to Iowa’s two largest university campuses […]
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