David Fizdale Quotes

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.

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

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

I look at Syracuse and I love the way that the coaches say they'll use me in their offense. I really like the family atmosphere there and I feel really comfortable there.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?

The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.

I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.

A couple colleges tried recruiting me without Marcus and I just shut it down right away. That was clear from the beginning. It was always a package deal.

The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.

It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.

Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

Central Michigan was the one FBS team that recruited me hard.

I thought I was going to play soccer in college.

It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid.

If we have somebody who may be ranked a little higher than another person, if one of them wants to be a Buckeye, wants to play in that rivalry game, play in the Horseshoe, that matters to us. We take all those things into consideration and we try to be as aggressive as we can on the recruiting trail.

It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.

If the NFL can keep getting away with forcing players to wait three years out of high school before they're drafted - three! - the NCAA should be made to do away with its rules against paying players beyond room, board and tuition. I'm not talking about some token, $2,000-a-year 'spending money' stipend for every player.

USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.