Ara Parseghian Quotes

There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL. There's no other way. Then there's the other side that says raise the SAT eligibility requirements. OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have. You lose athletes, and then the product on the field suffers.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.'

I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

I've always felt like I was a college coach and I was a college coach for Syracuse. It just felt like the right thing.

I haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.

In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.

There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

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 ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

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.

Duke and UNC are great schools.

I get to work with the best and the brightest at UCLA. We get to recruit great kids, and that makes coaching very fun for me.