JP’s not an idiot, he was Pollards choice way before Fred announced he was leaving.
Probably true- but would the TJ we have today be the same guy if he had been hired back then? What I mean is, the stints at SDSt and UNLV surely helped him improve as a head coach, as opposed to ISU being his first head coach gig.
There's no way to know of course, alternate history, like the Pearl Harbor thread... meanwhile, he's made chicken salad out of chicken **** so that's a good start.