BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.
To be a contender in the Big Ten a squad must have a solid player at every position.
I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
Dan Gronkowski and Chris Gronkowski played with me at Maryland, two of my closest friends.
It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.
I've got great respect for all the teams in the SEC as well as the Big 12, the Big Ten, on and on.
Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.
As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.
In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.
Especially in the States, at every level - whether it's collegiate, whether it's our professional league - we need more women in coaching, 100 percent.
I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.
The Big Ten is brand strong.
It had been a long journey for me just to get drafted. I had to work very hard as a collegiate player just to get recognized, being at a small school.
As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.
I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.
I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.
Never live with someone that won the Heisman.
I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.
I felt a lot of love through playing at BYU.
I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.
Stop the nonsense about 'student-athlete.'
I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University of Nebraska, where I grew as a man.
I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But none of the organized teams I was on were anywhere near as competitive as the games on the street.
