Why is Pollard a bad AD?
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Perhaps JP needs to learn his job with that coach/program is not done after the hire. Bringing in good people seems not to be a problem. However, keeping these guys and/or them being successful here is.
Let's be fair here:
Gymnastics wasn't replaced. Oklahoma came offering more money and better facilities. We lost on that. We didn't pay a thing to get rid of that staff.
Wrestling was worse off? Funny. Being in the top 5 at Nationals really, really sucks. How can you exceed expectations as a top 5 program in the country?
Soccer I know nothing about.
Cross country is ranked higher than it has been in the past. Definitely exceeding expectations.
Track and Field just put a female in the Olympic Trials, and she's surrounded by a good team. If I had to say something, I'd say met expectations.
Women's golf, Tennis, and Softball I know nothing about.
He's certainly a polarizing figure.
I like the facts that he's willing to try new things, raised the athletic budget, made facility improvements, runs a transparent budget and athletic program, and is very approachable.
I don't like that the mens football and basketball teams has gotten worse under his reign. I maintain however that much of the reason for that is left over baggage from past coaches and A.D.'s.
For those of you who are spouting so much venom on this site, I think it would be healthy for you to give Jamie a call and have a visit.
I like the facts that he's willing to try new things, raised the athletic budget, made facility improvements, runs a transparent budget and athletic program, and is very approachable.
I don't like that the mens football and basketball teams has gotten worse under his reign. I maintain however that much of the reason for that is left over baggage from past coaches and A.D.'s.
For those of you who are spouting so much venom on this site, I think it would be healthy for you to give Jamie a call and have a visit.
I do agree with most of this, but MBB has had enough time to at least show progress on the court - that has not happened. How long do these programs get a pass that gets blamed on previous guys that were here?
FTR, I do not believe Pollard is a bad AD. But I do not believe him to be the perfect AD I once believed him to be or that many still think he is.
BVD destroyed Iowa State athletics by not doing a thing while he was AD. Instead of capitalizing on the success Gene Smith brought to the university, he put the athletic program on cruise control. Pollard came into a bigger mess than anyone realized, and now he is the scapegoat.
I'm very sure JP would agree with you. Everybody is entitled to make a few mistakes. I certainly do every day, yet overall have done very well in my field.
If Brackins leaves, that is 4 consecutive years of losing your best player when they could have come back. We are not Duke or Carolina and do not have McDonald's all-americans riding the pine waiting for the chance. Stinson leaving was the only one you could pin on McDermott, Taylor-didn't do what was asked of him, Johnson-poor advice from a relative, Brackins-if he leaves- the chance to earn more money in one year than most will their entire life.
Jamie is a "scorched earth" A.D. He wants only his hires in place. I doubt you can find a 3-4 year period in the history of ISU athletics with the amount of coaching turnover we have seen. The gamble was to take us to the next level. Jamie is not screwing up little day to day decisions. His big, program changing decisions are not producing results. Jamie does not have much time for loyalty and he can't figure out why he is having loyalty issues. Mens BB and football are "the program" and Jamie is responsible for the lackluster performance in these two areas. Jamie gambled big time and he has lost. We have set football and basketball back several years and I doubt Jamie is going to have much success making promises of success and raising more money. The man is no longer credible and that is a problem for his position.
I may be wrong, but I seriously doubt it was on his resume or said in his interview that he was going to leave so soon.
Chizik came here and took over a team that won 4 games, and turned it into a 3 win team. The next year he turned it into a 2 win team. Then he left. But he is in the record books as the coach who has the lowest winning percentage in ISU football history. Not one of the worst. The worst. So low that he is below Jim Walden. If Chizik wasn't a bad hire, I'd hate to see what is.
PS: I know there was an interim coach decades ago whose 0-3 record is worse than Chizik. Chizik is the worst of anyone who coached at least one whole season.
