Interesting quote from Pollard

[Stormwarning]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,â€￾

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

 

[BirdOfWar]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,â€￾

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

Thank you for your contribution.

 

[bosco]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,â€￾

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

Take a number.

 

[00clone]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,”

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

Wrestling: No one cares. Football coaches: Both seemed like home run hires at the time...they didn't work out.

 

[ThatllDoCy]

To be fair, the coaches including CPR and KJ seem to take conduct outside their programs seriously and try to develop the players as people. They both seem like genuine guys who care about the athletes. Results on the field or mat just aren't there, or weren't.

 

[ripvdub]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,”

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

Like the other guy said, it's wrestling, no one cares, but the mouth breathers.

 

[Mr Janny]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,”

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

Neither Chiz nor Paul were bad hires. And Athletic Directors simply aren't judged by the state of their wrestling programs in 2015.

 

[Stormwarning]

Thank you for your contribution.

You're welcome. Thanks for noticing. I was trying to impress you especially.

 

[Stormwarning]

Wrestling: No one cares. Football coaches: Both seemed like home run hires at the time...they didn't work out.

Your comment on the football coaches is very interesting....considering we just hired a new one two days ago. I just don't think Pollard is very good at evaluating coaching talent. He got the Hoiberg thing right, but any of us could have done that. His quotes about what he was looking for in a coach are essentially the opposite of CPR, whom he himself hired.

He is great for the university, but not at hiring coaches.

 

[CyFan61]

Comparing the Chizik and Rhoads tenures is like comparing the current state of the Kansas and Iowa State football programs. A disservice to the latter in each case.

 

[Mr Janny]

Your comment on the football coaches is very interesting....considering we just hired a new one two days ago. I just don't think Pollard is very good at evaluating coaching talent. He got the Hoiberg thing right, but any of us could have done that. His quotes about what he was looking for in a coach are essentially the opposite of CPR, whom he himself hired.

He is great for the university, but not at hiring coaches.

lol. That was no slam dunk. It was considered a huge risk at the time.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Today I stepped on a crack. Have yet to find out if it broke my mother's back.

 

[Knownothing]

No offense but when a coach we hired leaves our football team and immediatly wins the National title 2 years later. I think our AD can evaluate a coach. Sure most say he paid his players. So does everyone else in the SEC. 4 years ago we thought CPR was going to leave us for a better job. That is how good he was doing. So its not like JP has failed miserably hiring football coaches. I also think we made a pretty good hire this time. Will it work. Who knows. Btw JP also hired Fred and Prohm

 

[clonebb]

We have a wrasslin team at ISU?

 

[Rogue52]

I don't give Pollard a pass on the failed tenures of Chizik and Rhoads just because they were considered good hires at the time of their hiring. (Technically, Chizik was poached so who knows how he actually would have done.) I mean there are times where some teams legitimately make bad hires and you say that from Day 1 (just about any KU hire for instance), but let's not pretend that's reality or a way an AD should be judged.

What is clear is that Pollard has had to do some learning on the job himself when it's come to head coaches. For instance, his desire to hire a previous head coach this time around while still keeping what made Rhoads a good hire (fit in with the program). Hiring a good fit with Rhoads was something he learned from Chizik hire.

As far as wrestling, sadly very few people care including Pollard. So a guy like KJ is going to get a lot of leeway.

 

[IsUaClone2]

“The most important thing I can do as an athletics director for our student-athletes is to hire the right head coaches,”

With the state of our Wrestling program and the way the last two football coaches have flamed out, I almost spit out my drink when I got to that line.

If it would help, I'll spit in your drink for you.

 

[dualthreat]

Wrestling: No one cares. Football coaches: Both seemed like home run hires at the time...they didn't work out.

Paul wasn't a home run hire. I don't think most people (on here at least) even remembered who he was. However, people began to like him pretty quick because of his personality and early success.

 

[KnappShack]

Your comment on the football coaches is very interesting....considering we just hired a new one two days ago. I just don't think Pollard is very good at evaluating coaching talent. He got the Hoiberg thing right, but any of us could have done that. His quotes about what he was looking for in a coach are essentially the opposite of CPR, whom he himself hired.

He is great for the university, but not at hiring coaches.

It took a set of stones to hire Fred. You think JP could survive in Ames as the man who fired the Mayor?

That hire had a very high potential to be JP's ticket out of town

 

[Stormwarning]

If it would help, I'll spit in your drink for you.

You want to spit in my drink after I spit it out?

 

[Frak]

lol. That was no slam dunk. It was considered a huge risk at the time.

Yeah, I don't know that many of us would have taken that leap like Pollard did. Rhoads didn't work out in the end, but I wouldn't say he was a bad hire. He did well enough to have Pitt and Wisconsin looking at him after the first few years.