28 Quotes by Eric Hyman

There's no question that the Mountain West Conference wants to be a national program. Their focus is on the BCS. This is what they aspire to be, and these are the aspirations of TCU.

The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the table. Everything is on the table for me.

I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets?' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.

This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.

You can't measure the value he brings to the program. It's tremendous. At our first booster club meeting there were 1,000 to 2,000 people who wanted to listen to him talk.

It's just an announced crowd. I don't know that you could give an accurate count at a game. It's an announced crowd, unless somebody has a computerized system in place.

It's a cultural change. What we want is to mirror our student bodies (in academic performance and graduation rates). This is putting consequences on people who are not headed in that direction.

Conference USA has been a terrific affiliation for us the last couple years, we want to make Conference USA the best possible conference it can be, ... But at the same time, we want to have a nationally prominent program, and we will always look for a vehicle with which we can achieve that.

I looked at him like he had three eyes. Ultimately though, if you look at the program now, he was right on target. If TCU had stayed, I don't think TCU would ever have had the success we had.