May 2010
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A COMMITTEE OF ONE … “I’d like to thank Tim Pernetti and I’d like to thank the Rutgers hiring committee—that’s Tim Pernetti also.” … Mike Rice, newly hired Rutgers men’s basketball coach, at a press conference this week, where Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti announced the new hire. Newark Star Ledger, 5-7-10 |
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WHAT NOT TO SAY “You have to understand — kids are 18 to 22 years old. They’re going to make mistakes” . . . . Oregon FB coach Chip Kelly, providing perspective for the season-long suspension of Jeremiah Masoli, last year’s starting QB, after his guilty plea in March to a felony burglary charge for stealing a laptop from a fraternity house. The Oregonian, 4-30-10 |
April 2010
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TALKING BUT NOT SAYING ANYTHING … “Speculation was so rampant that Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany held a news conference to say . . . that he wasn't saying anything. And it lasted 30 minutes.” … LA Times writer Chris Dufresne, reporting from the BCS meeting in Scottsdale AZ. Big Ten Conference expansion wasn't on the agenda, but it has been the hot topic nonetheless. … Los Angeles Times, 4-22-10 |
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WOMEN TACKLING WOMEN … “Yeah, it’s kind of a violent sport. But in the end, we walk off the field and we’re ladies and gentlemen and say please and thank you and all that stuff.” ... Whitney Nielsen, women’s rugby player, Wayne State College (Neb.). She was a member of the Wayne State softball team for less than a week as a freshman before she quit to take up rugby. The NCAA gave women’s rugby emerging sport status in 2002, and there are about 400 college club teams. … AP, 4-16-10 |
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COACHES OUT, COACHES IN …“The only thing worse than being in the arms race is not being in the arms race, because then you won’t have the best people coaching for you.” … Stanford AD Bob Bowlsby, citing the importance of having good coaches. Some $79.5 million has been paid out in severance costs in the past three years for coaches and sports administrators, in order to clear the way for new coaches. … Bloomberg News, 4-7-10 … … … “I think I’m the only one who did not get a call. They must have seen tape of my teams.” … Bill Raftery, the longtime CBS analyst who coached Seton Hall in the 1970s, commenting on the widespread searches by 8 of the 13 D1 schools in the Metro New York region, all in the same year. … NY Times, 4-11-10 |
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BULLDOGS, NOT UNDERDOGS … “I think they’re one of the best teams in the country. I think Cinderella would be if someone had eight or nine losses. They’ve beaten Syracuse, Kansas State and Michigan State. I don’t really consider them Cinderella.” … Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski, commenting on the illusory underdog status accorded to the Butler Bulldogs. … Hartford Courant, 4-4-10 |
March 2010
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CINDERELLA? NOT! … “We’re not your normal underdog.” … Cornell forward Jon Jaques, commenting on the character of the clutch Cornell team, the first Ivy League team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen in 30 years. … New York Times, 3-22-10 |
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SEC-ED TOUTS BAN … “That's a low bar. If you can't graduate two out of five of your student-athletes, how serious are you about the academic part of your mission?” … US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, proposing that teams with graduation rates of less than 40% be banned from postseason play. Schools that have men's basketball teams with grad rates less than 40%: Arkansas-Pine Bluff (29%), Baylor (36%), California (20%), Clemson (37%), Georgia Tech (38%), Kentucky (31%), Louisville (38%), Maryland (8%), Missouri (36%), New Mexico State (36%), Tennessee (30%) and Washington (29%). … USA Today, 3-17-10 |
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WHAT FAILED? … "Nearly every fundamental known to mankind." … UConn Coach Jim Calhoun, commenting his team’s immensely inopportune loss to Notre Dame at South Bend. The Huskies (17-13, 7-10 Big East) will have to put on quite a show at the Big East tournament to receive a Dance invite. … Hartford Courant, 3-4-10 |
February 2010
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CoachSpeak … “We ought to do what football does and go to a Division I-A and I-AA.” … West Virginia coach Bob Huggins saying he wants NCAA basketball to split up D1 teams. Huggins says cutting the number of teams would force schools to make a decision about their dedication to a basketball program. “It's attendance and facilities and so forth. Instead of having 347 teams, we'd maybe have 110 or 150. It makes it so much more manageable, but you could still play those people like football does, but they just can't be in your tournament.” … Times West Virginian, 2-21-10 |
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DELANY: “SLOW NEWS MONTH” … “I don't know if it's just the social media or the Internet or talk radio or newspapers, maybe it's a slow week or month, but there's so much speculation, and to be honest with you, the reporting on it is not going to win a Pulitzer because the facts aren't there.” ... Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, remarking on the voluminous talk (all gossip but no facts, he says) on possible conference realignments. … WSCR radio, 2-11-10 |
January 2010
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ADDING TO THE PILE? … “March Madness may become March Insanity.” … Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Dwyer, positing on the NCAA’s deliberations about adding to its 65-team men's basketball tournament, making it a 96-team field. Dwyer further says, “The 96-team field is a dumb idea, based on greed. So expect it to happen.” … Los Angeles Times, 1-30-10 |
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AMERICA’S SHORT ATTENTION SPAN … “Sports fans are the most forgiving consumers of any industry. If any other business treated its customers the way athletes treat their fans, in a lot of cases they would not have anyone lining up.” … David Carter, executive director at Southern Cal’s Sports Business Institute, commenting on the phenomenon of fans’ forgiveness of cheaters using performance-enhancing drugs in pro sports (Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte, Manny Ramirez, etc.). … from Selena Roberts’ column “Coming Clean: It's Complicated,” Sports Illustrated, 1-25-10. |
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UNAMBIGUOUS … “We're 38 years from when Title IX was passed, and we've forgotten all the things that got us here. What we're looking for is more opportunities for women to participate in intercollegiate sports. If we had only added women's sports that we had money for, and we had only added sports that didn't borrow from other sports, I wouldn't be here. There was never extra money; it was always inconvenient to add sports for women.” … Kathy DeBoer, executive director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, commenting on the possibility that all 11 members of the Big Ten Conference plus Duke, Clemson and Stanford might to vote Friday at the NCAA convention to knock sand volleyball off a list of emerging sports seeking full championship status. … Los Angeles Times, 1-14-10 |
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