Roy Kramer, commissioner
Southeastern Conference
Athletics Administration

"The Board of Directors is the final authority in the management structure of Division I intercollegiate athletics. I believe that since intercollegiate athletics should be an integral part of higher education in this country, the ultimate control should rightfully be in the hands of the presidents. The representative form of governance does enhance the role of conferences. If properly used, it can give athletics directors and institutional administrative personnel a much larger voice, because that voice can be heard in a much more meaningful way in conference meetings and discussions than in a one- or two-day convention of 2,000 to 3,000 delegates."

Title IX

Patricia Viverito, commissioner
Gateway Football Conference
Chronicle of Higher Education

Discussing the desired balance between athletics departments' revenue goals and student-athletes' educational goals:

"I think we're at a real crossroads. I keep being hopeful that presidents will sort of see the big picture and recognize that we are migrating further and further away from an educational model, and that someone is going to right that course and force us to do things in a more reasonable fashion."

Mike Moyer, executive director
National Wrestling Coaches Association
Dallas Morning News

"The most successful women's programs in the country reside at the big Division I-A football schools."

Coaches' bios

Rod Williamson, sports information director
Vanderbilt University
Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader

"If we have a coach now who says he was inducted into the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame, then I want to see the Holy Grail of proof. I want a list of inductees put out by the Hall of Fame."

Kenny Klein, sports information director
University of Louisville
Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader

"I don't think (résumé) verification should be our jobs."