Bob Bowlsby Quotations

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

What makes anyone jump to the conclusion that he is going anyplace? We have people calling all the time, every week wanting to talk with our coaches. If you have good people, that happens.

When you see a crew that was obviously over their head in our game and obviously over their head in Michigan-Nebraska game, it will stimulate a lot of discussion.

Of all the changes we could make, the one with regard to home-versus-away games is one that your gut tells you should be incorporated, ... How we do that and in what proportions is yet to be determined, but I think it's fair to say that most people's intuition is that there ought to be some weighting for road wins.

He has exactly the kind of fierce competitive spirit that we're looking for. I think he's exactly the right guy to put Iowa back on the traditional pedestal that we've enjoyed over so many years.

We've done some sportsmanship initiatives and we've done some collaborative officiating things with the MAC, and one of the things we're doing is some scheduling stuff,

It is more likely that Des Moines would be rated low for the first and second rounds (in basketball) due to limited air access and limited hotel space. It would very likely be too small for regional round games.

Many have Iowa ties, but not everyone. My preference is someone with Iowa ties and roots.

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

That's the way it's got to be these days, ... When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

We don't even know who was involved yet. The first step is to find out who was involved. In the grand scheme of things, it's likely not all that serious.

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

We are in the very embryonic stages of investigating this.

What it means is they have a chance to call him and he can decide whether he wants to go and interview.

We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument. The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.

This will be one of the most gratifying professional experiences you will ever have.

We will move just as quickly and efficiently as we can to focus on those candidates around the country who possess the talent and experience to lead our program back to its traditional position of prominence within the Big Ten and at the national level.

There could be more to it than we know, but I would be shocked if it is more than a minor deal.

You have to pay what the market bears, ... and in that regard, we are no different than any other business or industry. We compete at the hospital for researchers, and we compete in a lot of areas on campus for the best people.

Big Ten teams are sort of going on the road and playing -- not home games at the other place -- but neutral sites, where both teams can benefit financially.

The temptation is to begin drawing conclusions, and I think that's a real mistake, because lots of things happen in the month of February and the conference tournaments, ... The process is best served by doing some background work and not coming to any conclusions.

This has been a very difficult last 10?12 days. I have been involved in wrestling a long time. I had a short list of coaches. There were a lot of people with Iowa backgrounds and some who didn't have any ties to Iowa. It all came down to one candidate and that candidate is Tom Brands. He did a terrific job at Virginia Tech. He has a fierce, competitive spirit and that's what we are looking for.

This has been a very difficult 10 or 12 days. Yet having said that, it culminates in an event we're very excited about.

There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months.

As we do each year with every sport, we have completed an evaluation of all aspects of our wrestling program. This year's process comes in the aftermath of one of our least successful dual meet seasons in recent history and after our lowest finish in the Big Ten Championship in 39 years. Regretfully, we have come to the conclusion that it is time for new leadership within our wrestling program.

That's absolutely vital. The suite revenue, along with the club seats, paid for everything, 100 percent.

Everyone has jumped to the conclusion that he was somehow engaged with Missouri, and I don't know that he was. And I don't know if anyone else knows that, either.

The best we can do now is improve on the process for selection of officiating crews to make sure we are doing what we can to avoid these situations in the future.

They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.

I have no idea when or where it will stop, ... but I do know that I don't see it happening in the foreseeable future. Every time you think it's topped out, somebody goes over it.

I have not talked with anyone about any possible change in the current situation.

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Because it's got all 11 Big Ten teams, and however many MAC teams, it's taking a while to work it out,

The challenges there are much the same as the challenges here, but there are also some major differences. Stanford isn't as dependent on gate receipts as Iowa (for example).