Iowa's Barnes lands with Vanderbilt

Iowa football administrative assistant Tyler Barnes has accepted a position with Vanderbilt University, Iowa associate sports information director Matt Weitzel confirmed Wednesday.

The Gazette reported on March 6 that Barnes, who is engaged to coach Kirk Ferentz's daughter Joanne, had been working as an administrative assistant for the football program since January 2012. The Iowa Athletic Department reassigned Barnes on March 7 so he no longer reported through football and submitted a conflict-of-interest management plan April 10. The UI's Committee on Conflict of Interest in Employment, composed of nine faculty and staff, approved the plan April 19.

Most of the plan is confidential, but it changed Barnes's supervisor to Steve Roe, Iowa's director of athletic communications.

The couple are planning to wed on July 6.