cornfedcowboy
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Pollard has done a good job in his past two hires. Kudos to him. This will be a tough year to hire coaches. He probably did did the best job possible.
Toledo coach Matt Campbell to ISU
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hawkdrummer1
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so...new logo again?
HaydenHawk56
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So ISU will be even more of tomato can for Iowa and most other teams to beat up on.
HaydenHawk56
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ISU home for the holidays with Campbell.
SpecialKHawk
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The theory is you throw enough stuff at the wall something is likely to stick.
HaydenHawk56
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Pollard is already taking up collections for soup labels to pay for away games and other expenditures.
Also introducing the new 2016-2017 Cyclown football cleats.
and......new ISU cheerleading outfits....perfect for Chunky Girls who like their Soup Chunky
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eyekwah
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Pollard has to keep butts in the stands and if Rhoads was kept it was going to mean a big drop in ticket sales. It is going to be good time to change coaches for ISU with Texas way down, Kansas State slipping toward .500, and Kansas just awful. TCU maybe down as well with Boykin graduating. Oklahoma State just got by ISU this year. Their non-conference schedule is pretty light as well. Iowa on the road is the most difficult assignment.
ISU 2016 recruiting wasn't great, but who knows if the commits fit into Campbell's approach. Hiring now may aid what looks pretty dismal.
I'm sure Campbell knows what he is walking into, but it is a huge career risk to take. To make the jump from the MAC to a team in a major conference with a long history of futility has to be a concern. When I look at the Big Ten I believe the current head coaches coming directly from the MAC are Hazlett(sp) at Purdue and now Cubit, that was let go by a MAC team, hired by Illinois as an assistant, and now head coach with a two year contract. Beckman was fired by Illinois after coming from Toledo. Kill worked out well coming from NIU to Minnesota, but he really honed his craft at FCS schools. Minnesota is probably a better job than ISU because it is the only game in the state.
ISU 2016 recruiting wasn't great, but who knows if the commits fit into Campbell's approach. Hiring now may aid what looks pretty dismal.
I'm sure Campbell knows what he is walking into, but it is a huge career risk to take. To make the jump from the MAC to a team in a major conference with a long history of futility has to be a concern. When I look at the Big Ten I believe the current head coaches coming directly from the MAC are Hazlett(sp) at Purdue and now Cubit, that was let go by a MAC team, hired by Illinois as an assistant, and now head coach with a two year contract. Beckman was fired by Illinois after coming from Toledo. Kill worked out well coming from NIU to Minnesota, but he really honed his craft at FCS schools. Minnesota is probably a better job than ISU because it is the only game in the state.
HawkeyeDenis
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The ISU administration isn't giving Rhoads much time to clean out his desk. I think it's a coaching grave yard, but who knows maybe he is the guy they need.
Oh yeah ... here is the first sniff ... this is going to be HUGE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nABQhg60jUI
Robowe
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Pre-emptive strike. 
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...te-football-new-coach-jamie-pollard/76494818/
Campbell’s hire means Lou Ayeni presumably would stay on as the Cyclones’ running backs coach.
That means Iowa State’s best player, 1,000-yard rushing tailback Mike Warren, doesn’t transfer.
Why?
Ayeni, if you recall, was running backs coach at Toledo – for Campbell – before joining Iowa State’s staff in January of 2014. At the time, he was recruiting Warren to play at Toledo.
When Ayeni changed jobs, Warren came with him.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...te-football-new-coach-jamie-pollard/76494818/
Campbell’s hire means Lou Ayeni presumably would stay on as the Cyclones’ running backs coach.
That means Iowa State’s best player, 1,000-yard rushing tailback Mike Warren, doesn’t transfer.
Why?
Ayeni, if you recall, was running backs coach at Toledo – for Campbell – before joining Iowa State’s staff in January of 2014. At the time, he was recruiting Warren to play at Toledo.
When Ayeni changed jobs, Warren came with him.
Can you imagine the conversation if Campbells walks into his office and Rhoads is still there, throwing pencils into his ketchup and mustard backpack......
Robowe
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Probably ISU's best player. Freshman RB with 1,300 yards rushing this year.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/_/id/3128401/mike-warren
Well then, congrats for piling up stats on a 3 win team, son!
ChosenChildren
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ISU is a basketball school. They will always stink in football. They can't compete in that conference
SpecialKHawk
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Pre-emptive strike.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...te-football-new-coach-jamie-pollard/76494818/
Campbell’s hire means Lou Ayeni presumably would stay on as the Cyclones’ running backs coach.
That means Iowa State’s best player, 1,000-yard rushing tailback Mike Warren, doesn’t transfer.
Why?
Ayeni, if you recall, was running backs coach at Toledo – for Campbell – before joining Iowa State’s staff in January of 2014. At the time, he was recruiting Warren to play at Toledo.
When Ayeni changed jobs, Warren came with him.
He sounds like a good coach and recruiter so enjoy him while you have him because the Urban Meyer & Jim Harbaugh's of the CFB world will come calling as they did for Hermann.
Stanzi
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The obnoxious thing is that hope will build up for them all summer, and they will be claiming that ISU will be taking over the role as best football team in the state. They will talk about how they will dominate Iowa now that Rhoads is gone. Sadly, the new coach will just make them even more delusional until reality sets in.
