After Iowa State announced a new six-year contract for Matt Campbell on Monday, athletics director Jamie Pollard went on the airwaves and talked about it.

During his segment on the Cyclone Call-in Show, Pollard talked about how the contract came together, the langue in Campbell's buyout in the new deal and a facility upgrade to the Bergstrom Football Complex that is currently in the works.

(On the new contract) What makes it hard is in the public sphere there’s all this noise in all the coaching searches and everyone is concerned. I really wasn’t because we had been communicating regularly and we had talked throughout the entire fall that we would wait until the final game whether that was this past weekend or this weekend at the Big 12 Championship and that Matt and [his wife] Erica would sit down with [my wife] Ellen and myself. They came over to the house [Sunday] night and we spent probably two and half hours just talking about what matters to them as a family, what matters to him professionally, what matters to his staff. It was just a really good discussion and it just confirmed what he’s been saying the whole time, which is he’s a person who stands behind his word. He committed to come to Iowa State to build this the right way and he’s not saying he’s going to be here forever, he’s not saying he won’t be here forever. He’s on a journey to make Iowa State the best possible football program it can be and it’s our job then to try to facilitate that for him. That’s what makes it just so exciting. I’m excited for our fans, I’m excited for our players that they have a leader that really stands for what he says.

(On upcoming facility upgrades) We’re working through that. I was able to show him where we are in the plans and the drawings. The process right now is it goes through a university committee here next week, then that triggers the process to go to the Board of Regents probably in February and then the process just starts coming out of the woodwork to the public. In the meantime we’re starting to raise money for the project and it’ll be an exciting addition not only to the football program but to all our student athletes with a student-athlete performance center that will house academics, nutrition, our dining center and the new football locker room. It will change the end of the north entrance to the stadium. A big, big statement. It’ll probably be in the $75 million range, so that was another big commitment to Coach Campbell for what we’re going to do for our athletic program.

(On Campbell's new buyout clause) With the buyout, part of what we talked about is kind of doing what’s there. There was some terms that were agreed to when the contract was first negotiated two years ago and the buyout will stay in that same continuum. The buyout for this year was $9 million. It’ll be $7 million next year. That’s a very fair number and one that protects both the institution and also shows that Coach Campbell is committed to being here.

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