A couple of points... One, UNLV could have leaked this to let it get out there that the job might be available. Gotta believe that if they wanted to keep him, they would have been in the process of putting together a counter.
Two, the possibility of this happening surfaced not this week or even within the last month. It started at the end of last season. Anyone who doesn't believe agents representing the interested haven't been sending feelers out to Pollard over the last year are naive. I have no doubt that the interested have sent feelers to Pollard even before Prohm was released.
If it is TJ, it's anything but a hasty move. It's one that's been long planned.
All I know is that for what we can, or more appropriately, what we will spend, he as good or better than anyone else we would get.
We can get him on the (relative) cheap and he'll trust Pollard to take care of him.
ISU is never going to have a home run hire. There will always be doubts about any incoming coach. TJ knows the program and how to recruit to ISU. Considering that basically no one has been successful at UNLV since Lon Krueger I don’t think it’s a completely accurate gage of his coaching abilities. I expect some growing pains but am optimistic about this hire.
Dave Rice was 98-54 at UNLV he put like 7 guys in the NBA. He is a bit of a Prohm story, in the sense he won like 50+ games his first couple of years but kind of tanked after that.. Some underated coaches in MW as well. Nevada Reno and SDSU had some really good teams over the past few years.
