16 Quotes by Marty Hickman

No, no way. There's not even been discussion of it.

I believe there have been high school athletes in Illinois to use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. It's probably a small number, but I think it would be naive to believe there hasn't been any usage. People like Jose Canseco have brought this to the forefront, and it isn't going away anytime soon.

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

My reaction is that I think it's great. I think it's a wonderful site and I'm hopeful that we'll be able to work something out to get back in there.

I think our member schools clearly think we needed to take some steps to level the playing field and this is the measure that will accomplish that at this moment.

The 37 schools that sued us agreed to this process and, quite frankly, I think it's time to move on and move forward and see how this works out.

We have had a wonderful experience at the University of Illinois the last several years.

The expansion of classes was supported by our membership, and as I've said in the past, we're a membership-driven organization. Those who voted favored this move.

We had a tremendous bid from Northern and we also had a tremendous big from the University of Illinois. At the end of the day our board concluded that we would return to the U of I.