What we'll see over the next few years is a pickup in overall development in the city and the fringe areas around the city.

More people draw more commercial.

The type of project he's proposing is exactly what we're looking for downtown. It's something you can't find at a big box store. It was a welcome proposal and hopefully he can get back on track with it.

If we would make our own (department), it would be deep in the red for years until we could build up a revenue base.

We're now in the 19th month of the NCAA process. Having a coach in limbo or having a coach suspended would be grossly unfair to the young people who play basketball at Ohio State. It would have arrested any development of our program and that would have been an untenable solution.

He wanted me to know what he had done. First of all, he said he committed a violation. Secondly, he gave the money to a prospective student-athlete.