College Football Recruiting Quotes

In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may be zero.

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.

You don't beat football teams. You outrecruit them.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

Coming out of high school, Ricky Town was the dude. He was going to SC; I was going to UCLA. He was No. 1 in the country; I was No. 2.

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

What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.

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 watch a lot of college football.

My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

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

I definitely watch college football on Saturdays.