DeLoss Dodds Quotations

We've always wanted to keep him in the top five in the country, where he belongs.

This puts Mack in the top three in salaries among college coaches, and that's where we like to have him.

Our philosophy then was to schedule one major non-conference game - home and home. That was the game.

Regardless, we are proud of our student-athletes, coaches and support staff who have worked at meeting the standards, but we are not satisfied with some of our numbers.

The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

We have followed up on the rumors that we are hearing and spoken with the two student-athletes who are alleged to be under investigation.

We've got to decide what we're going to do, so they can decide.

We think in the marketplace that he belongs in the top two or three, and that's where we've got him.

Bob (cares) about the whole person, not just the athlete. He's capable of handling anything in athletics that there is.

There's no birthright to winning championships. They don't come easy. But I really didn't think we'd lose, right down to the end.

I've seen a lot of great athletes in my time in this business. He's the best of them all.

I've served on many committees with Rudy. And I'm still waiting for an opportunity to speak.

Dallas needs to make up its mind. We need to get it decided and behind us.

The Big 12 is a tough conference. We'd like to do a game a year that's home and home in a place that our fans would want to go, against peer institutions.

It was a minor mistake and the money was paid back to the university out of his own pocket. Still, it is a violation.

It was a great season. It's hard to make it a positive today, but it is a positive. But this is particularly hard because expectations were high.

I liked him. That was a pretty good chunk of money back then. We could have handled it, but we wanted David.

Because Mack is such a great recruiter, some folks have called him the February Coach because signing day, as you know, is in February. For us, he's been a winner in every month in every year. This year, for those who would like to tie a month to Mack Brown's name, I suggest you call him January's Coach.