You reap what you sow. Jamie came in and in two years fired ten coaching staffs. Not ten coaches, ten staffs. That is a lot of people and families -- and outside of the football staff and the million bucks he paid to Wayne Morgan, most of them do not have large incomes and most of them only have year-to-year contracts with no provision for severance pay. Especially the assistants. The ISU athletic coaching staff is a pretty small group, and when a new boss comes in and changes dozens and dozens of people's lives, uproots families, makes kids leave schools and move, etc., what happens to the ones who get left behind? The same thing that happens when an ax man appears and guts any business or other organization. They don't know who is next, they worry if one bad season will be the end of them, and they end up looking for a better workplace.
For one, I cannot stand the way Pollard appears to be shocked and hurt whenever a coach quits on him. After he just fired dozens of their colleagues, he's either acting or a fool if he thinks it doesn't work both ways. We'd just better hope that Bill Fennelly and Christy Johnson don't tell him they're outta here one of these days. I never expected them too, but after this week I won't be surprised if it happens, either.
