Good sports facilities are a blessing.
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.
I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.
I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.
I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.
If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana - what are you talking about? You're always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.
There's no perfect program. And everyone deals with stuff. You know, when you're Ohio State or some of these other big-time programs, stuff becomes a major deal.
Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.
This day and age, you look at baseball as a whole, and not just the pitchers' side of it. You have the weight programs, you have the technology, and as a pitcher, you need to keep up.
There'd be a call from Michigan Scout, then Michigan Rivals, then Iowa Scout, then Iowa Rivals. These guys are competing, and I'm just the guy in the middle giving them the story.
UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
My life, even as a college student, has all been through the NCAA, and I'm telling you there's so much good that comes out of it.
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
It still comes down to attracting players, and UCLA can attract players as well as any place in the country.
We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.
I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
