(Miami) is a university where you can go win a national championship. Certainly any coach would be attracted to that. There are an awful lot of positives there. I think I'm a legitimate candidate. It would be a very, very attractive job to me. |
I do know that there are a number of interest groups that will go through a legislator to take advantage of what the legislator can ask for. |
I don't know anybody who has magic. They gotta trust you and you gotta trust them. If they don't trust you, they'll never believe anything you say. You have to be credible and forthright. You may say something they won't like to hear but you have to tell them, that's the truth. They want me to be truthful just like I want them to be truthful with me. I want to know they're committed and they want to know I'm committed. We're looking for the same things. |
I think sometimes we lose the forest for the trees. . . . When you have a full-time Legislature like Wisconsin does, you're going to get this kind of behavior. |
I want to see points. We're going to have the pedal down. |
It would be hard to claim that this would be unusually restrictive. |
It's a fairly new phenomenon. |
It's exactly the way big things work in the Legislature. It's not easy to keep the flock together. |
It's like the train leaves once, never to return. |
It's pretty much a constant trend. Year after year after year, (technical colleges) have the largest increase, so they are slowly becoming a larger share of the bill, and they are contributing more to the overall increase than you would think. |
One of the things about the spread is there's an awful lot of built-in misdirection that it creates. It slows defenses down, so certainly we're going to do that. |
Tech colleges have a source of revenue that no other public entity in the state does - a tax that they can levy without any accountability to the electorate. |
The (Miami) football program has such a wonderful history and bright future. I'll also be working for a man whom people have tremendous respect for as both a coach and a person. |
The good news in some ways is that we seem to be attractive to young families with kids. The problem is the people coming in tend to have less capital at their disposal. They're less educated. They're more likely to work in 20th century as opposed to 21st century jobs. |