Pollard did an interview with an Iowa radio station. He said AD's weren't involved with process. Nobody wanted expansion but when Boren shot off his mouth the Big 12 had to look into it. He also is very honest with his assessment of where ISU is in the pecking order of colleges.
“We made good fodder for a lot of people,” a somewhat agitated Pollard said when asked about the public relations nightmare that has been a recent investigation into expansion. “I understand why people joke about it or are sarcastic about it because I probably would be too if I was on the outside. Because in the end, that’s the hand we were dealt when the president of Oklahoma came out and said what he did, Commissioner Bowlsby was kind of forced into having to go through this process.”
“When I hear people say Texas and Oklahoma this, I laugh because I’m in the room and that isn’t the case,” Pollard said. “The Big 12 exists because we have Texas and Oklahoma in the room. If we take Texas and Oklahoma out of the room, we are in the Mountain West Conference and we are going to get $3 million.”
http://kxno.iheart.com/onair/n-a-52935/jamie-pollard-on-big-12-expansion-15213092/
http://cyclonefanatic.com/2016/10/williams-what-the-big-12-is-banking-on/
“We made good fodder for a lot of people,” a somewhat agitated Pollard said when asked about the public relations nightmare that has been a recent investigation into expansion. “I understand why people joke about it or are sarcastic about it because I probably would be too if I was on the outside. Because in the end, that’s the hand we were dealt when the president of Oklahoma came out and said what he did, Commissioner Bowlsby was kind of forced into having to go through this process.”
“When I hear people say Texas and Oklahoma this, I laugh because I’m in the room and that isn’t the case,” Pollard said. “The Big 12 exists because we have Texas and Oklahoma in the room. If we take Texas and Oklahoma out of the room, we are in the Mountain West Conference and we are going to get $3 million.”
http://kxno.iheart.com/onair/n-a-52935/jamie-pollard-on-big-12-expansion-15213092/
http://cyclonefanatic.com/2016/10/williams-what-the-big-12-is-banking-on/
