Recruits Quotes

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits. - Bobby Burton

You just never know (about recruits). So who will do it? I don't know that any of us at this time last year would have thought that (freshman) Malcolm Jenkins would start five games at cornerback. - Jim Tressel

You have to put yourself in the mindset of a 17-year-old kid instead of an old sportswriter. [Monday] was the first day we could call recruits, and it was unanimous -- they were fired up about them. - Mike Bellotti

You have to be excited about a guy like Micah Johnson. Not only his physical abilities, but his leadership and his dedication in the recruiting process to help us by staying in touch and contacting other recruits. Two guys he spoke to long before he committed to us and he kind of wanted to see if they would join him at Kentucky were Josh Minton and Corey Peters, and darned if they're not all here. - Rich Brooks

You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from. - Heather Danenhower

You can game-plan the week of the Oklahoma game without having to call 50 recruits every day. But what if someone better than the player you've got comes along? - Jeremy Crabtree

With everyone back and the awesome recruits that we had coming in this year it has been absolutely incredible. - Kristen Merlino

When our recruits visit Swarthmore, we have them stay with current team members. We want them to get a taste not only of what the team is like, but also show them the academic and social life on campus. - Sue Davis

What's it been, 10 years? Hey, Gene knows he needs to get back to Omaha, and we know it, too. It's important for us to show our fans and our recruits that Wichita State is still just as good as any place else -- if not better. - Matt Brown