20 Quotes by John Swofford

We owe the Big Ten a debt of gratitude,

There are a lot of ways to look at it, ... but I think we're right there with any of the other four conferences. And that's where we'd like to be, and where I feel we should be.

To be honest, there was some truth to that for a while. I think people were almost too comfortable in the beginning. Some people spent as much time looking around the building as getting into the game because it was so different from Carmichael.

Crowd control in all of our sports is an issue that our schools take seriously and is discussed on an ongoing basis. The safety of players, coaches and fans must always be the primary concern of any sporting event.

The rivalry is one of the greatest in college football and having these teams showcase their talents in front of a national audience to kickoff the season is tremendous,

The threshold should be 3:30. With the average approaching 3:30, we have to be concerned because a number of games went beyond that.

Football is a very physical sport and every player needs to be protected and players must respect each other's safety.

It's not as much of a financial bang as some people think. But certainly it would help, and prestige-wise it would be very positive.

No, I wouldn't equate it totally to dollars necessarily. Just like there are years some people may feel a certain conference is maybe a little better than the ACC, that doesn't mean their television dollars are going to equate to our television basketball dollars necessarily.