Linda Carpenter, researcher
Women in Intercollegiate Sport
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"In one way it's the success of Title IX that has produced fewer female coaches. The function of Title IX was to give women more opportunities, and now young women have so many more job options available to them. They have the confidence to go after them, and they are open to them in much greater abundance than before Title IX. ...

"The horizons for young women are much more open than they were a decade or two ago. They're seeing possibilities in business, of being a doctor, accountant or lawyer. The choice of being a coach is not one that they are considering because they are not thinking about it."

Donna Lopiano, executive director
Women's Sports Foundation
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"(Athletics directors) go out and hire their male coaches away from other schools, and they won't do that for women. When they don't go out and pay top marketplace salary to steal somebody away, they continue to depress the women's coaching place. They hire the cheapest. ...

"The answer to this isn't hiring more women coaches for women's teams. The answer is breaking open the closed shop of coaches of men's teams, jobs that are higher status and higher salary. There has got to be discrimination in any kind of marketplace that is only 2 percent female."

Ann Marie Rogers, associate women's athletics director
University of Florida
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"If we have a first female president and she doesn't do a good job, we won't have another one for 100 years. If you have a bad experience with a woman coach, they will consider that all women coaches are bad. But they don't look at it for males. If they have a bad male coach, they'll go to another good male coach and say everything is fine."

Sports wagering

Paul Hewitt, head men's basketball coach

Georgia Institute of Technology

Washington Post

Discussing legislation that would prohibit certification of an event if it is conducted in a venue where sports wagering on intercollegiate athletics is permitted:

"I trust my players. I think I can trust them to play in that environment. And besides, why be hypocritical about it? I'm sure a lot of people take vacations to Las Vegas, and this is something these young men are going to be exposed to. So, why not expose them, not necessarily to a casino, but to Las Vegas or that setting while they have a coach or somebody who can supervise them and maybe talk to them about the ills of gambling, instead of sheltering and hiding them, which I think a lot of times we try to do?"

Women's sports

Jean Lenti Ponsetto, senior associate director of athletics
DePaul University
USA Today

Discussing changes since the NCAA took over the administration of women's sports from the AIAW:

"If the financial viability had been there, I'd like to think we'd have made the same progress under the AIAW. But those were simpler times; we live in a different world now.

"We've reached our adolescent years, but we're not at full maturity. There are things we still need to accomplish, but quite candidly, I don't have any great fears for the future."