I think there are things we can do better with the program to increase its value to the schools.

This way, if Chief McNeill needed to pull him out of the school to cover patrol, sick leave or other department business, he could do that.

I was up thinking about this last night and it just didn't sit well with me that we were going to just let this program go. It is too valuable to us as a community.

Even [within] those schools that accept associate's degrees for a teaching position, they typically place greater value as far as compensation formulas on educational experience than they do on work experience. A guy with 30 years of experience as a technician and an associate's degree might not be given pay equal to someone with a bachelor's degree who [has] no technical experience.

I just think the smaller schools have caught up to the larger schools. The top teams have two or three good players. In the old days there was players like Magic or Michael Jordan, a real good player that could carry a team.

Very few schools meet the Title IX criteria on proportionality.