I will simply say they aren't home-run hires or the best I know are interested for a competitive price.
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I will simply say they aren't home-run hires or the best I know are interested for a competitive price.
Then I really hope we go very hard after Cody Sanderson. I know he is very respected by guys who know a lot more about wrestling than me
I don't understand your sentence beyond "aren't home-run hires".
Why bring in someone that isn't a homerun hire and lose the recruiting class. Then keep Travis and keep most of recruiting class. If it doesn't work in 4 years, look elsewhere.
You lose part of this freshman class and recruits, you are looking at 4 years to rebuild. Esp with 125,133,141,149,174 and Hwt all seniors
You lose part of this freshman class and recruits, you are looking at 4 years to rebuild. Esp with 125,133,141,149,174 and Hwt all seniors
Totally agree with this. If you are part of this donor group, why would you take a risk of losing recruits and losing ground in years to come? Pollard needs to look outside the program and get people involved that know the sport the best.
I was hopeful because:
1.) JP deeply cares about his legacy. One of the first things people bring up when talking about the job he's done is the descent of a once proud wrestling program. Fair or not, that has to bother him.
2.) The amount of investment he would have to put in to wrestling to make us elite again + lure in a top tier coach is relatively small when compared to the $ it would take in any other sport at ISU.
Well, that is not encouraging, but it can't be much worse than a few of the seasons we've limped through.
To play Devil's (JP's
) advocate, there might have been something else going on, maybe just rubbing people the wrong way, but when Cael and Kindler left, university athletic funding was much less certain.
Anyone could see that these two would be winning national championships in the future. It was a no brainer -- maybe the most slam dunk hires in the history of Iowa State athletics. So in that respect it seems inexcusable. On the other hand, there was a real need to prioritize the income generating sports at that time. Times were different. It might have been a concern not to overpromise. The kind of money coming in now after the conference realignment certainly wasn't anticipated at that time.
On the big time sports, Hornacek would have seemed to be a great hire, if that was a possibility. I might be mistaken, and I honestly don't recall exactly, but I believe Auburn and Creighton made significant contributions to our athletic department. I doubt that that was in the back of JP's mind, but wonder if the realignment ordeal made him more circumspect in the more recent hires.
Obviously, I appreciate the info, but don't like what I see Jeremy has posted above.
) advocate, there might have been something else going on, maybe just rubbing people the wrong way, but when Cael and Kindler left, university athletic funding was much less certain. Anyone could see that these two would be winning national championships in the future. It was a no brainer -- maybe the most slam dunk hires in the history of Iowa State athletics. So in that respect it seems inexcusable. On the other hand, there was a real need to prioritize the income generating sports at that time. Times were different. It might have been a concern not to overpromise. The kind of money coming in now after the conference realignment certainly wasn't anticipated at that time.
On the big time sports, Hornacek would have seemed to be a great hire, if that was a possibility. I might be mistaken, and I honestly don't recall exactly, but I believe Auburn and Creighton made significant contributions to our athletic department. I doubt that that was in the back of JP's mind, but wonder if the realignment ordeal made him more circumspect in the more recent hires.
Obviously, I appreciate the info, but don't like what I see Jeremy has posted above.
Wish I could just embed the tweet via mobile, but I've never been able to figure that out.
If I'm a betting man, one of the paulsons will be our next coach. Pollard will take the easy way out here and give it to one of them. It shows Pollard has no interest in wrestling like we have all known. I get losing recruits will suck, especially a nice recruiting class like this, but if we don't do this right, we'll be sitting in this same spot a few years down the road.
The thing that ticks me off about Pollard is about the track and cross country stuff, that sport will never generate any money hardly for the university and yet we build a new complex and hire a top 5 coach, we know where Pollards allegiance is at.
The thing that ticks me off about Pollard is about the track and cross country stuff, that sport will never generate any money hardly for the university and yet we build a new complex and hire a top 5 coach, we know where Pollards allegiance is at.
Also, unless we promote one of the paulsons, i don't see an announcement coming until after the season. I just can't see us saying for instance Bono is our new coach today, and then he and Jackson have to coach their current respective teams till the end of the year. I've never seen anything like that happen..
