Iowa State’s courtship of Jamie Pollard was a whirlwind affair that lasted about one week before he accepted the school’s offer to become its athletic director.
Pollard, the deputy athletic director at Wisconsin, was one of three candidates who interviewed for the Iowa State job last weekend in Chicago. He was offered the job and accepted it Sunday.
That’s when Wisconsin athletic director and football coach Barry Alvarez found out he was losing his top aide and administrator of the day-to-day operations of the 23-sport, $72 million department.