Mohamed Bamba Quotes

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

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.

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

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.

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

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

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.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

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

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

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.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

It doesn't matter what college you go to.

If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about getting education.