38 Quotes by Mike Tranghese

Then there are other rivalries that are good but that we just couldn't fit in, such as Connecticut-Providence. But because Connecticut is one of our top teams we had to cross over and have them play Syracuse and Louisville.

I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'

I'm just not the kind of guy who says I told you so.

If I were IBM, I'd understand it. I'm not IBM. I represent 14 educational institutions.

I have nothing to apologize for. My conference has nothing to apologize for.

I never talked about numbers with our people, ... I just said obviously with the kind of quality that we have there's no reason to think that we can't generate more teams qualifying for the tournament. I think this is historical. This is a path that no one's ever traveled before, this many good teams in one league. What's it going to lead to?

If you're recruiting against Southern California, Oklahoma or Miami, those are hard recruiting sells. There are a whole bunch of teams in those leagues who are never getting to a BCS game. I told our coaches, every one of you has a chance to win this league and get to a BCS game.

I just think me saying anything, all it does, it doesn't help. I don't see what I have to gain by talking about it.

I don't think it can hurt. I think anything we do to excel, to demonstrate our ability to continue to compete at a high level can only help us.