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Jamie Pollard (right) has had a successful 16-year run as Iowa State’s athletic director.



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Who will be Nebraska’s next athletic director? 

Time will tell, but it won’t be Iowa State’s respected department leader, Jamie Pollard. 

The longtime ISU athletic director batted down any chatter that he might be in the running for the Nebraska job on the Heartland College Sports podcast.

“Nebraska’s a great program, has a lot of great history. I have a lot of admiration for Coach (Tom) Osborne, both as a coach and when he was an AD in the Big 12. My daughter goes to Nebraska, I love the city of Lincoln, but I love working at Iowa State and I am not leaving Iowa State. I’m here.

“We’ve worked really hard for 17 years to get this program in a spot. I’ll take it as flattery and a huge compliment that there’s folks in Nebraska — you know, there was a day, 17 years ago, where people thought the Iowa State athletics director, that people in Nebraska would think that that’s who they should go hire? Rightfully so, they didn’t look at our two programs as being comparable. I would argue right now our program is ahead of their program. I’ll take that as a huge compliment, but Jamie Pollard is a Cyclone and I’m going to continue to be a Cyclone.” 

Nebraska is in the early stages of a national search that will include a search firm to assist UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green and a search committee, though as of Tuesday evening a contract with a firm had not been signed. 



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