The best we can do now is improve on the process for selection of officiating crews to make sure we are doing what we can to avoid these situations in the future. |
The challenges there are much the same as the challenges here, but there are also some major differences. Stanford isn't as dependent on gate receipts as Iowa (for example). |
The temptation is to begin drawing conclusions, and I think that's a real mistake, because lots of things happen in the month of February and the conference tournaments, ... The process is best served by doing some background work and not coming to any conclusions. |
There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past. |
There could be more to it than we know, but I would be shocked if it is more than a minor deal. |
There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months. |
They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it. |
This has been a very difficult 10 or 12 days. Yet having said that, it culminates in an event we're very excited about. |
This has been a very difficult last 10?12 days. I have been involved in wrestling a long time. I had a short list of coaches. There were a lot of people with Iowa backgrounds and some who didn't have any ties to Iowa. It all came down to one candidate and that candidate is Tom Brands. He did a terrific job at Virginia Tech. He has a fierce, competitive spirit and that's what we are looking for. |
This has been an awful day. |
This will be one of the most gratifying professional experiences you will ever have. |
Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though). |
We are in the very embryonic stages of investigating this. |
We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument, ... The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use. |
We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument. The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use. |