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“I think the kids took a big step forward with their mental game. Hopefully, it will be a real good step for us toward sectional.”
Mike Hamilton
“In any situation like this, there will always be, 'What about this guy or what about that guy?'”
“Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.”
“It wasn't all set before we decided on these three, ... But the athletes weren't set, either, and we said, 'All right, let's write the criteria.' It kind of evolved, and those things meshed together.”
“But for today, as the standards have been set forth, these are the three players that meet those standards.”
“Right now, we have plans to put a Neyland statue out there, as well as some type of system to recognize our great players, All-Americans and College Hall of Fame members,”
“[UT athletics director Mike Hamilton said the Tennessee party had four buses, and he was on the last one, which included other school officials and cheerleaders.] They were throwing bottles at the buses and that kind of stuff, ... The bus I was on, they broke three of the windows.”
“There seems to be a big division between competitive and leisure interests, because if those two groups disagree we won't get 60 percent [of the voters].”
“In my mind, it's a simple decision, ... You decide you're going to play Monday or decide you're going to play the game. If we felt like it would be unfair to our student-athletes and not safe for our student-athletes, we were prepared to forfeit the game.”
“if we felt like it would be unfair to our student-athletes and not safe for our student-athletes.”
