Cary Groth Quotations

He has made it clear he wants to stay at Nevada. We have made it clear we want him to stay at Nevada.

It is important that we are all on the same page and the same time frame. I am a lot more comfortable talking to coaches about staying and making commitments when I know that I am going to be working with them. It provides security for the whole department.

Our priority is to provide whatever support we can to his family, our student-athletes and coaching staff.

Recruiting is absolutely critical to our success. We need to be able to recruit quality student athletes.

I think this is a really simple, straight-forward contract that both Coach and I are happy with.

That was separate before and I believe it to be part of the job.

We have talked about what he wanted and the future of Wolf Pack football. If we can come to some agreements (today), and I have all the confidence in the world that we will, we will talk about what's going to happen with the remainder of his contract and the years to come.

What was most comfortable with Mark was what we went with. That was the flat fee. We determine the flat fee together. Whenever you do contracts you want to make sure you're working on them together so you're both comfortable. I think that's what we did.

We just signed a basketball player (Tyrone Hansen) from Maine, so you know Mark (Fox, the men's basketball coach) had to fly all the way back there just for one player. That's going to cost some money.

We will not have any penalties. We knew that we would have three programs that were close and that we are in really good shape with some of our other programs. Overall, we are headed in the right direction.

And we have not taken it to the Board of Regents. Once it is approved with the Board of Regents, it will become public.

Coach Fisher taught me how to drive. He was also my brother's basketball coach.

This is a credit to the job that our management team, coaches and staff have done. I am not one to ask people what they think of the job we are doing, but the regents were very nice and generous in their comments today.

All of our coaches' contracts will have buyout clauses.

It is really nice to see that we won't have any penalties. All of our coaches understand the importance of this. It is part of their job description now to meet these academic progress numbers.

I need to talk to (Ault) first. It's not fair for him to read in the paper what I am planning to do.

Instead of just penalizing schools, you should reward the ones that exceed expectations.