The market will accept it, we have little doubt about it.

I am absolutely convinced that we can get a lot of teams in if they do what they are supposed to do. The selection committee has good people, and they'll be fair about it. They know how good we are.

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

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

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