Academic issues

Dan Sparks, president
National Junior College Athletic Association
USA Today

"I've always felt that junior college kids have been penalized twice. Now it looks like they're going to be penalized a third time. I realize we've got some athletes, not just in basketball, that are in school and maybe shouldn't be there. But (the NCAA is) so concerned about weeding out every student-athlete that shouldn't be in school. I think every person that wants to go to school and wants to participate in sports should have that right."

Dick Baddour, athletics director
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"(The APR) may be difficult for the average person to understand, but I think it's more important that it be a good snapshot of the system. It does exactly what it's supposed to do."

Basketball issues

Herb Sendek, head men's basketball coach
North Carolina State University
Washington Post

"The best thing that happens every year in college basketball are the relationships that are shared among so many people and some of the great life lessons that our young people learn. I know those kind of things make some people yawn but it really is the best part."

Seth Greenberg, head men's basketball coach
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Washington Post

"The biggest problem in college basketball today, without a doubt, is the recruiting process and players being more concerned about getting to the NBA than about the name on the front of their jerseys. Adopting similar policies like Major League Baseball, where once the guy decides he's going to college he has to stay three years, would help fix it. Guys today are more concerned that you're messing with their game than messing with their team."

Mark Stephens, associate athletics director
University of California, Berkeley
Contra Costa Times

"Basketball is a billion-dollar deal for the NCAA, but that's spread over x-number of years and divided by x-number of conferences and x-number of schools. It's just not that much money, not when you're talking about an individual school's expense budget being $42 million. Schools are making their money with individual television deals, ticket sales, luxury boxes and corporate sponsorships."

Sports wagering

Charles Harris, athletics director
Averett University
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The word is 'inevitable.' We as administrators would be incredibly shortsighted if we didn't think (a gambling scandal in intercollegiate athletics) would ever happen again. ...

"You can't unring the bell: The real issue is, frankly, off-the-court behavior, who people are interacting with -- not in a Big Brother sense, but you really have to have an acute sense of what's going on in the program."