AMES, Ia. — David Harris ran Iowa State’s athletic department so well in Jamie Pollard’s absence last year that maybe, just maybe, it helped hasten Pollard's heart attack recovery.
“I joked with him at that time, that he was doing such a good job in my absence, that I had to hurry back so he didn’t take my job permanently,” Pollard said.
Pollard recovered. Harris went back to being a senior associate AD. All was normal again — until Troy Dannen left Northern Iowa for Tulane.
Until the Northern Iowa athletic director position opened.
I don’t know who called who.