For all intents and purposes, the Iowa State coaching saga has officially concluded. With Steve Prohm announcing his assistant coaching staff last week, the dust has finally settled and now it's time to look back on the last 60 days or so and put it all into perspective.
Rumors had been circulating for some time, but on May 12 in Ottumwa of all places during the annual Cyclone Tailgate Tour, Iowa State athletics director, Jamie Pollard, provided the spark that became a rampant wildfire of rumors fueled by anonymous sources whose credibility was always dubious at best.
The day following, I wrote this piece, which was quite critical of Pollard's comments, even going so far as imploring Pollard to keep quiet as I felt his comments were doing irreparable harm to recruiting efforts.