Big Ten Quotes

To be a contender in the Big Ten a squad must have a solid player at every position.

I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you're up against pros. It's just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That's really what I like about the Big Ten.

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

I love all the other bowls, but being a Big Ten guy from Ohio and watching the Rose Bowl in the '70s with Archie Griffin, it's everything everybody says it was.

The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was one that I could not pass up.

I mean there's a hell of a difference between the Big Ten and the ACC when it comes to quality football.

The history and tradition of the Rose Bowl, if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will.

I went to Northwestern. I bleed purple and white.

I've got great respect for all the teams in the SEC as well as the Big 12, the Big Ten, on and on.

I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

I have great admiration for Woody Hayes.

I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.

The Big Ten is brand strong.

I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

You're working a million hours and you're on the road recruiting and you're doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you're competing for a championship. You're competing for a Big Ten Championship, you're in the Rose Bowl, you're taking your family to the Cotton Bowl.

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.

I came to Indiana for one reason: I think you can win championships at Indiana.

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.