(Ames, IA) -- Iowa State University Athletic Director Jamie Pollard says the hiring of a new men's basketball coach should be a fairly quick process. Pollard issued a video statement today (Tuesday) the day after it was announced I-S-U was parting ways with Coach Steve Prohm.
"It's critical that our men's basketball program be healthy. It's so important to this community, to this institution, to our president, to our athletics department and I have a responsibility to make sure it stays healthy," said Pollard.
Pollard says he expects the search will go quickly. He says that's because of the current "landscape" of college athletics, with transfers being able to leave and be eligible at other schools. He says ISU also has a responsibility to signed recruits, to share with them who their head coach will be.