We are too big, but everything in America is too big. We just happen to be a little bit bigger than the others. |
We are very excited for our teams that have been invited to the NCAA Championship, but we are disappointed that Cincinnati was not included. They had some quality wins inside and outside the conference. |
We had pretty high expectations before the season. You hope it's right, but I don't know if anybody could have written a better script than how it turned out. |
We have a couple more who if we were voting today would probably get in, ... and I'll match the strength of our coaches with any league in the country. |
We have done significant research and analysis into the use of instant replay for our conference football games for the coming season. We are pursuing what we think will be the best possible system for the coming season. |
We're not going to be judged on a single game; we're going to be judged over a four-year period, but obviously how West Virginia does against Georgia will have some impact on how we are judged. If I said I was not concerned about it, I'd be misleading you. We're all going to be evaluated, but a lot of the focus is aimed at us. |
We're not going to fail, ... But we're not going to simply succeed because we're 16. |
We're not going to fail, ... But we're not going to simply succeed because we're 16. Sixteen presents a number of problems, and we're going to be aggressive in dealing with them. But this whole notion that we're too big is nonsense, because three years ago we were 14 and I didn't hear anyone saying we were too big. |
We've got people out there working on this, they've spent an enormous amount of time on it already. I'm pretty optimistic what we craft will be better than what we have. |
West Virginia has been our main torch bearer in football. And the basketball team clearly has made a significant contribution. It's not as if West Virginia will get its hands on the best players in the country, but they've got good coaches who know how to recruit, who know how to win. |
What bringing 12 did was create interest at the so-called bottom tier. |
When we began to look at Notre Dame, Marquette, DePaul, Louisville and Cincinnati as well as those schools located in the Northeast, we were also trying to not have people do even more travel, |
When we lost people and sat down and talked about it for the first time, Louisville was always part of those conversations. A big reason why was how much they seemed to want to be here with us. |
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