To be a contender in the Big Ten a squad must have a solid player at every position.
The Big Ten championship game is one of our goals year in and year out. So that's just the focus.
Drew Henson could go down as the greatest quarterback in the history of Michigan football.
Ohio State University puts out some very fine football players.
My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.
I love all the other bowls, but being a Big Ten guy from Ohio and watching the Rose Bowl in the '70s with Archie Griffin, it's everything everybody says it was.
The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was one that I could not pass up.
I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.
I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn't have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.
Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.
It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.
Braxton Miller is a special football player and has been special since he stepped on campus.
Michigan is a proud university.
Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
I would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.
It's not as if I dislike Michigan. I have a lot of respect for the university - not only the athletic department but how they educate young people. The only reason I dislike them is because they are the No. 1 rival for OSU.
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, I was a college football junkie. My mom attended the University of Iowa and so I can remember I used to run around the backyard in a number 6, Tim Dwight Iowa jersey when I was very little.
I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.
Ohio State is an up and down team.
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
I loved Jud Heathcote.
I've called the spring game for Big Ten Network for Michigan State. It's a great opportunity to still stay around the game, to be able to feel like you're close to the action. I'm very analytical, so I think it fits the way I think.
I think at Ohio State, we're professional athletes in Columbus.
Michigan has such grandiosity. It has all those all-Americans. You can't go anywhere without finding a Michigan graduate.
You're working a million hours and you're on the road recruiting and you're doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you're competing for a championship. You're competing for a Big Ten Championship, you're in the Rose Bowl, you're taking your family to the Cotton Bowl.
