Paul Daugherty, columnist
Cincinnati Enquirer

"This is fun: Playing college football in Division III, where nobody revokes your scholarship if you miss a practice to take a psychology quiz.

"This isn't: Working the graveyard shift at a transmission plant to pay your Division III tuition because you don't have a scholarship.

"Fun: Winning big with players who put football in the same healthy place you do.

"Not fun: Having more month than money.

"Fun: Saturday afternoon.

"Not fun: Monday night, 3 a.m., punching out after eight hours on a production line, knowing in five hours you'll be sitting in a classroom.

"Fun: Scoring touchdowns.

"Not fun: Repaying $28,000 in student loans.

"(This is the life of one football player at Thomas More College): Up at 8, class at 8:30; practice from 2:30 to 5:45; work from 6:30 to 3 in the morning; home at 3:30; asleep at 4; alarm at 8. Every day, five days a week.

"This life doesn't have enough hours. (This player) doesn't juggle time. He's spinning multiple plates on the end of his nose. His wallet is usually thin, too. It costs $12,000 a year to go to Thomas More. Plus, he has a wife, and a child due in February.

"Go ahead. Tell me again that Division I jocks ought to be paid."

Women's basketball scholarships

Geno Auriemma, head women's basketball coach
University of Connecticut
Sports Illustrated

Discussing a proposal to reduce scholarships in women's basketball:

"Changing the rule isn't going to affect a coach's ability to win, only the ability to stockpile players. If I have 15 girls on scholarship, some of them won't play until they're juniors and some won't play at all. If they went elsewhere, they'd probably play right away and make another team better."