This is the fallout (with video of entire news conference)

IOWA CITY -- To frankly cut through the preambles and legalese, the Iowa athletics department appeared before media Tuesday to discuss an "oh bleep" moment.

Nearly a week after the drug arrest of Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, Iowa's career receiving leader, coach Kirk Ferentz and athletics director Gary Barta discussed what they learned. Or what has kept them from a good night's sleep the last seven days.

The bags under Ferentz's eyes said a lot.

"Learned of some phone calls that were placed to some of our parents, some of the alarming content, just ridiculous questions they were asked," Ferentz said. "I'm not a huge fan of the social networks, but so much misinformation out there."

No more suspensions expected

Iowa officials don't anticipate any more suspensions for the Insight Bowl. That was only a sliver of Tuesday's news conference.

Monday, Iowa announced that running back Jewel Hampton left school and decided to transfer. Ferentz said the decision was "mutual" and that the conversation took place Sunday night. Iowa also announced that running back Adam Robinson was suspended for Iowa's Insight Bowl game against Missouri on Dec. 28.

Hampton had been out since suffering a torn ACL against Arizona on Sept. 18.

"We do shape behavior, as we move up the program, the expectations get higher," Ferentz said. "Everybody has choices to make. We're pretty firm in what we want to do, how we conduct our business. Sometimes it's not comfortable for a player to stay with the program. I don't want to speak for Jewel, but talking in broad-based terms, those are decisions players have to make."

Robinson, the team's leading rusher for the last two seasons, was suspended for the first quarter of the Ohio State game on Nov. 20. Ferentz anticipates that Robinson, a Des Moines native, will return to the team in January.

"We have a lot of good guys on the team. Adam Robinson is a good guy," Ferentz said. "He just has not been taking care of business the way I expect him to. It's a simple equation. He got to the point. He was approaching that point a couple weeks ago, as evidenced in the Ohio State game, him not participating at the front end [due to academics]. In my estimation, he wasn't learning fast enough from that point on.

"To the best of my knowledge, he'll be eligible for the game unless he fails to take his finals. I don't anticipate that. It's not a matter of eligibility. It's a matter of him following up the way I feel he should."

Drug testing brought into question

Players and eligibility were secondary material. Front and center was Iowa's drug testing. Why? No one said it, but the Johnson-Koulianos arrest happened 10 days after Iowa's loss at Minnesota on Nov. 27. Upon his arrest, Johnson-Koulianos submitted a urine test that came back positive for cocaine and marijuana.

The timing raised a red flag.

"One of the things we did last week was go back and make sure the protocols and procedures were all in line," Barta said. "We did learn that there were some flaws and inconsistencies.

"Now, we didn't catch anyone cheating on the test. . . . We did find pretty strong evidence that there are a couple ways that our student-athletes probably have and most likelyhave at some point have gotten around the test in some way."

Barta and Ferentz went to great lengths to discuss the UI's procedures and protocols. Iowa athletes are tested by the NCAA, Big Ten and the UI, even though the school isn't mandated to put athletes through testing.

The school started this in 1988 because it wanted to be proactive, Barta said. When Ferentz arrived in 1999, he ramped up drug testing for his program. He spent nine seasons as an assistant coach under Hayden Fry in Iowa City. He knew what kind of headlines drugs would bring and he wanted to stay ahead of it.

"One of my fears has always been that players don't always have to do a lot around here. All you have to do is be on the team and you're a celebrity," Ferentz said. ". . . I'm not going to put my head in the sand. We want to be proactive, get out ahead of things. If a player does have an issue, I would like to think we know things on the front end so we can shape a change.

"We're in the game of education, trying to help people along and grow. There is a drug culture on every college campus. If someone is involved in that, we want to know ahead of time so we don't have an incident like we did last week. That's a bad result. . . . We're not going to win them all, as hard as you can try. We're not going to turn our head, turn away, hope nothing comes along. That's never been our approach."

Positive results and the next step

Dr. Del Miller, a UI professor of psychiatry who began overseeing Iowa athletics drug testing two years ago, said Johnson-Koulianos' arrest is a reason to step back and look at the program, which administered between 800 and 900 tests last year on 700 athletes.

Iowa tests for performance-enhancing drugs, alcohol and various street drugs and masking agents. When an athlete tests positive for the first time, it's not an automatic suspension but team rules come into play.

According to the UI code of conduct, a first offense earns an assessment and the student-athlete is put on notice. A second offense is a suspension. Third is dismissal. A refusal to take a test is considered a positive result.

"Over the year, every student-athlete is tested, either by us, the NCAA or the Big Ten," Miller said.

Policing players and roommates

Johnson-Koulianos lived and was arrested with Brady Cooper Johnson, who faces charges of possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver (marijuana), a Class D felony. Arrest reports accuse Johnson of selling large amounts of marijuana. He also had a prior drug conviction in June 2009, according to the arrest report.

Ferentz was asked how one of his more prominent players could end up living with an accused drug dealer.

Ferentz said in his 12 years he hasn't considered doing background checks on roommates or girlfriends, for that matter. Ferentz is, essentially, in charge of 120-plus players. Their circle of friends could stretch into the thousands. He said it would be a daunting task, but that it is worth considering.

"Where does it start and where does it end? That's a question I'd ask you," Ferentz said.