I agree the only way Jamie is leaving is when President Leath or his successor Prez FIRES Jamie...
Jamie Pollard...
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I agree the only way Jamie is leaving is when President Leath or his successor Prez FIRES Jamie...
Only if JP listens to the soon-to-be overwhelming calls for a change such poll would show!
He is different that way. Maybe he's overcompensating for the old-school way of having your football coach (or basketball coach) rule the roost and all the ills that come with it (thinking of OU football, Kentucky basketball, etc...). I think JP VERY much wants folks to know he is the boss.
Getting a rich guy to part with his money is NEVER easy. Sales and promotion of the programs and the vision put forward by JP facilitated those generous donations.
Really depends on what the goal was and whether the targets were met. That's what all good supervisors do - help an employee set stretch goals and try and provide the tools to achieve.
If you reinvent Widget A and it's met with record breaking sales (like season ticket sales) than high praise indeed.
Not derailing, but I seem to remember BVDV having to deal with some budget messes left over by Gene Smith? I seem to recall a line of reasoning that we wanted an "administrator" in the most bueracratic sense of the word to right the financial ship. Not defending - just trying to remember what circumstances he fell into.
BVDV did some good things while he was here, his handling of the LE mess was apparently his undoing. That issue was a hot potato with no good solution, however LE himself said it was best he left Ames. But BVDV won a national award for A.D. of the year while he was here, so obviously he wasn't the chump some try to make him out to be.
Didn't BVD turn down a bowl bid at a school in Louisiana? Maybe I'm misremembering.
Maybe you can't tell that JP > BVDV, but I can. Is that you BVDV? Got a new username?
Yes, he held out for a better bowl they thought they would get, but it fell thru. Still doesn't take away from some of the good things he did while at ISU. I haven't tried to compare JP and BVDV, but thought it's worth pointing out that BVDV did win that national A.D. award to those that try to build up JP by putting down BVDV.
Pollard is a lot like Dan McCarney to me.
He increased ISU's profile and did a ton of good here. But we're seeing diminishing returns constantly. He's become so arrogant and out of touch, that he routinely inserts himself needlessly into dialogues and only serves to embarrass the university. Ranting about transfers with G Mac. Ranting about the officials with Rhoads last year. Allegedly nickle-and-diming the successful coaches he's hired (Sanderson and Hoiberg) while vehemently defending/refusing to fire under-performers in Rhoads and McDermott. This lends credence to the accusation in the Hines piece that he became jealous of Hoiberg.
Pollard has done more than any AD in ISU history, but that doesn't mean he's still doing the kind of job this university deserves. I fear he still thinks of us as "the little school on the prairie" and apparently some of you do to.
He increased ISU's profile and did a ton of good here. But we're seeing diminishing returns constantly. He's become so arrogant and out of touch, that he routinely inserts himself needlessly into dialogues and only serves to embarrass the university. Ranting about transfers with G Mac. Ranting about the officials with Rhoads last year. Allegedly nickle-and-diming the successful coaches he's hired (Sanderson and Hoiberg) while vehemently defending/refusing to fire under-performers in Rhoads and McDermott. This lends credence to the accusation in the Hines piece that he became jealous of Hoiberg.
Pollard has done more than any AD in ISU history, but that doesn't mean he's still doing the kind of job this university deserves. I fear he still thinks of us as "the little school on the prairie" and apparently some of you do to.
Because how much you spend on recruiting directly correlates to the recruit you can attract???????
Toledo spends $171,153 a year and gets enough recruits to beat our ***. Do you not think it's odd we are the 3rd highest spender in recruiting in the B12 but we are the bottom of the barrel in wins?
I agree with U that Jamie needs to wake up and FIRE this Entire Staff at the end of this dismal season.
All of the above.
If Pollard were to leave or get fired, I will be worried that we screw up hiring his replacement but the lines "He's the best we've ever had. He's done a great job. Etc." are not reasons for him to continue in his role.
The old Pollard line "builder not maintainer" seems to have come into play except he never really built much of a winning football program.
Jamie has done a very good job with all things financial at ISU, and developing facilities for sure. He has improved the Department in every way.
His achilles heel is the Football Coaching hires, but it is a tough tough job to be the HC at ISU. It's a very difficult fill. I don't think it is the same as not being able to hire the right Coach for Texas.
You get what you pay for, and we do not comp our HC's at the level of the rest of the Big 12. Can we? I don't know, but you have to pay these guys to get them to come here.
His achilles heel is the Football Coaching hires, but it is a tough tough job to be the HC at ISU. It's a very difficult fill. I don't think it is the same as not being able to hire the right Coach for Texas.
You get what you pay for, and we do not comp our HC's at the level of the rest of the Big 12. Can we? I don't know, but you have to pay these guys to get them to come here.
