Athletic Director Quotes

It's been a dream of mine to become a head coach in the NFL.

I've got the opportunity to manage a big football club, a seriously big football club, and I wasn't going to turn that down.

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.

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.

I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a job.

You're not going to see Bill Walton or Kareem coming in every three years. Those days are over. That's what makes the job so difficult. But it's the dream job for anyone who has spent a career in coaching and has a sense of what UCLA means.

I'm no longer the head football coach at Ohio State.