Everybody cares about their own, but Pittsburghers love and embrace them in a way I've never seen before, ... Dave's strong faith and integrity resonates extremely well in this community. He's forged in steel.

I think this sends a strong statement about where we stand when it comes to the importance of academics in this conference. We support that. We feel it was a very good move at a great time -- when we're coming together as a 16-team conference, the largest in the country.

We feel very confident the Big East will retain its spot in the BCS, ... We feel we are one of the six strongest conferences in the country. We may be sixth, but we're sixth.

This is all floodplain, ... There's always a chance of flood, but I'm more concerned now with what happened in New Orleans.

We do work hard to get closer to proportionality.

Very few schools meet the Title IX criteria on proportionality.