35 Quotes by Jay Jacobs


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    Our mission statement is to ensure Auburn has the pre-eminent athletics department in the nation. And we're going to get there by following our two cardinal rules: Always tell the truth, and always treat others as you'd like to be treated. If we can do that, we'll succeed.

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    That attitude expressed by Ford's supporters is exactly the rationale that led us to support the strongest candidate.

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    We just did a ticket increase and an apparel deal with Under Armour. Some of that would go to it. We're looking at fighting it from both ends -- pulling from these additional revenues we had to create to keep our program where we all want it to be and go out and ask donors.

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    We were able to avoid playing five consecutive conference games in the middle of the schedule. Secondly, it allowed us to have our first SEC home game in September instead of the first week in October.

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    We're a lot closer than we were, but we still have a lot of work to do. Everyone is trying diligently to get to an end where we can make a decision.

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    Well, maybe not worse than this right now. I was working with children, and sometimes they have a higher capacity than adults.

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    We've got to fix that. Some of that is being taken care of by managing the facility and reprioritization. It's a multi-use facility. We share that with the university's academic mission.

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