Athletic Conference Quotes

Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.

The ACC is a great league.

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.'

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.

All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.

Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I've had little interest in them any more. I thought that was a disaster and a disgrace when they did that, but they did it anyway. So I've lost interest them and I don't care what they do anymore.