if anything, we'll accept fewer students.

If you lost an entire year, it would be very difficult to retain students and to retain faculty, ... They, because of the risk associated, would feel like they should transfer somewhere else.

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

We're the single largest private employer (in Orleans Parish), ... What does it say if the single largest employer doesn't get up?

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

The level of criticism is fairly warranted. So you either do it the right way, which involves a playoff, or you go back to where there was no pretense that there was somebody [matched together] playing for the national championship. You just played the bowls, and the pollsters ranked 'em however they wanted and we lived with the controversy.