Conferences Quotes

You weren't recruited at that high major level, you don't travel the way (power conferences) travel, you're not on television as much. - Bruce Pearl

You take away those last nine games from us and we wind up in third or fourth place. (But) you have more time to prepare for (conference) games and you have more time to play other conferences, which is pretty interesting. - Frank Cruz

You have to face the reality that teams have conference records. So our job is to dig beneath the surface, even among teams that have the same conference records in some conferences. - Craig Littlepage

Why not Pitt? We're in one of the top conferences in the country. The philosophy (for tournament selection) is if you go .500 in your conference, you're in. That's the way it is in the ACC, SEC, all the top conferences. - Agnus Berenato

While the SEC is arguably the strongest conference in the country in general, it is not so this year... With all due respect to the SEC, this year it ranks fifth among the conferences, far behind the Big 12 and Pac-10. - Jeff Anderson

Wherever there are discussions on Iran, it is not needed to be present there, rather stances can be announced through these press conferences. - Hamid-Reza Asefi

When you start playing 12 games, and an SEC championship game and a bowl game, 14, 15, 16 games with 85 scholarships, you're not functional. Competing in the conferences we compete in, you're down to the nubs by the end of the season. - Urban Meyer

What's scary to me is that in the wake of Enron there has been this focus on corporate governance in the US and there have been all these conferences on it as well. - Bethany McLean

What everyone had to remember was this was an experimental year. They allowed the conferences to sort of mix their own bowl of soup. - Grant Teaff

What a great challenge. We'll play schools from four different conferences this year, including the WAC. - Chris Ault