DeLoss Dodds, director of athletics
University of Texas at Austin
USA Today

Discussing proposals that would change the out-of-season conditioning policies in football:

"The players need to be ready to go when football starts. They need to be in some kind of shape then, or we're going to have a lot more issues like we've had in the past year or so. (T)he student-athlete needs about eight weeks of work prior to two-a-days. And prior to that, we're going to try to get them a bunch of weeks where they're absolutely on their own.

"Now you can't stop them from working out. But you can stop people from supervising them. It would be more structure, and I think it would give them more time off. I think they would not feel as coerced. Right now it's kind of (taking place) all summer."

Fund-raising

John V. Lombardi, chancellor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Boston Globe

Discussing financial challenges at Massachusetts:

"You can't look at this with rose-colored glasses and pretend this isn't true: It costs money to run intercollegiate sports, and those who love it should pay for it, or at least some big chunk of it.

"If they don't love (sports) enough to pay for some big chunk of it, then we need to have another conversation. But we have not tested the love. We have every indication people love us. What we don't have is an indication of what would happen if we asked for help.

"We haven't passed the plate. I look around, and I don't see enough names on things. I don't see enough corporate signs. I don't see enough logos. I don't see enough stuff. I'm used to seeing stuff. That tells me that somebody either hasn't been asked or they don't want to invest. But I think they haven't been asked enough."