[In the restaurant's famous dessert room, the piano player serenaded the Louisville trio with] My Old Kentucky Home, ... Go Wildcats! |
Georgia is one of the benchmark programs in the country. We've made great strides in improving our schedule and adding a home-and-home series with a Georgia will only help improve the quality. |
I pretty much had an idea of how I was going to handle it by halftime. |
I think he's worked very hard at it. He's grown and matured as a coach dramatically. |
I think our fans are having fun. I don't want to take anything away from the Liberty Bowl because those people treated us great, but this is a great place. This is great for our fans. |
I was always trying to share our story with Mike and the members of the Big East, telling them what our vision was and where I wanted us to go, ... That paid some big dividends later, because when the time came to pull the trigger, they already knew a lot about us. |
I'm all for giving people a second chance, but not on our dime. I wanted to see him go through a year and see his character. So far, he's been much more than I anticipated. I'm very, very pleased with him so far. |
I'm so delighted that Rick has agreed to remain our men's basketball coach for an additional three years. When he first became our coach, I felt that if he could come here and reconstruct our program in six years, it would be a major coup for this institution. Our entire university and community will benefit immensely from his pushing that initial commitment to nine years. |
If anything, our being here really validates how good the move to the Big East was for us. And I know there are better things ahead. |
If we're not going to be on campus, we need to be on the river. That's the place that makes a statement to recruits. Why would you spend a quarter-billion dollars to hide a building? |
is going to be a wonderful home for us. … We couldn't be more pleased. |
It's a great opportunity for the program. The great thing about it is to be able to go up against a great program like Virginia Tech. When it comes to football, they are one of the schools I looked at in trying to model our program. |
It's all out in front of us now. The sky is the limit. |
Rick has continued to exceed all of my expectations and we look forward to even further heights, particularly with our move into the Big East Conference. I hope we can add Rick for another nine years in 2010. |
That's possible. And to win a game like that one, or like this one, there's no telling where that can take you as a program. But it's a process. We want to keep building. |