“Well, this was a win-win for us in many ways. The one is certainly, the state of Texas is a priority in our recruiting. We’ve got 28 players from the state of Texas on our team. We have eight starters, several others that play quite a bit. Other than the state of Missouri, it is where we go down and recruit the highest level of student-athletes in the country. We’re excited about being here. This is where we spend a lot of our time. The coaches in the area, inviting them to practices, as I’m sure Northwestern will do, I think it’s just a win-win for all the families and all involved. ”

“I have my opinion. You may not like it, but I’ll give it to you. I think college football is very unique. One of the great things of college football is every single week the national championship’s on the line like no other sport. I think college football right now is more popular, makes more money, has more fan base than in the history of our sport. I think the first thing you have to suggest is why would you change that. I like the BCS system. I have no idea what Pat thinks about this, and we’ll hear that in a minute, but I’m of the plus one theory. You maintain the bowls, you maintain all of the BCS bowls, one plays four, two plays three, and the goal is to get in the top four, and then you have one more game. To me, you maintain the integrity of college football, and every single week, the national championship being on the line, so you maintain that and you still have a goal to be in the top four.”

“As y’all know, we had some great teams in the Big 12, probably the South has as good a numbers there, maybe like the perfect storm, as you’ll probably every have. I think what we will do as coaches and athletic directors is we’ll revisit that in May and figure out what the best way is. And if the best way is currently, we’ll stick with it. I think we’ll kind of visit it and maybe decide to go another way. We’ll wait and see.”

“Jeremy Maclin is up for the Biletnekoff Award tonight in Orlando at the College Football Award Show and he came in our office at the beginning of the week and said he wanted to take Chase Coffman with him and I have never heard of that before. Generally you take your parents with you, which and he will do. He has very limited tickets to it. We had to find out NCAA wise if he could do that or not, which we always have to do and we find out he could take him. It’s a huge statement for Jeremy Maclin and what kind of person he is, how caring he is. He’s a team player. He has all this light shining on him he certainly wanted to bring his teammate with him and have him be a part of it. I think that’s a great statement for Jeremy and his character.”