The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area studied. Overall, record sales are up more than 8 percent year-to-year (but) sales at independent record stores are down more than 4 percent.

When I got in [to SSU in 2001], I found out that they had never done a feasibility study. The president told me that he just made the decision to move to D-I. He was disillusioned with the old conference they were in [the SIAC] and wanted to go D-I.

The young guys all work hard and study well and they all played well in the preseason and had a chance to go up against some first-team defenses,

I'll have to study a lot harder and take better notes.

The effects that we saw over the initial six-month study seem to be maintained over one year.

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,