Jim Haney Quotations

The Palm is proud and excited to host this unique charity event.

From the standpoint that identifies there are circumstances that are beyond control of the coach, (and) you can't hold the coach accountable, I think this is very positive.

I think (any involved) coach would be putting his job in jeopardy.

I think it was just a general reluctance to change. But the coaches were able to communicate with their athletic directors why this rule made sense. Then it gained more and more support.

I was just grateful that they agreed to work with him. They've handled it well, under tough circumstances.

Our plan isn't to threaten them, but we want to address raising the standards on how their programs are administered and managed so that these kinds of incidents are true to what we say -- that it is a small number of coaches involved and the vast majority of guys are doing it well.

We didn't finish lower than third in any one category.

At this point, I think the topic of expansion is a fairly new one, but clearly it's come up. I feel confident that it will need to be addressed.

The NABC is thrilled that the NCAA is taking a leadership role in the hurricane relief effort, ... We would expect that all other coaches associations would link arm-in-arm with the NCAA in a show of support as this very important effort moves forward.

A regular Palm customer can come in here a couple times a week and get different things. That's the goal. They are going to get the best steak, but they are also going to find the same quality in our veal dishes or whatever.

The whole goal in this place was to grab the local community. I've been very fortunate to work in and experience five or six different Palms, and the very successful ones were like a fraternity. It was the same core of people spending their money. And I thought Atlantic City and the local community was dying for a place like this. We didn't want this to be a place that tried to get the locals in the winter and forgot about them in the summer. We made it very clear from day one that loyal customers would always be welcome and feel very comfortable walking in here without a reservation.

The way we look at this is we don't want IT to be in the critical path, if you will, of supporting where the business wants to go.

There was discussion of it (among university presidents) in the last couple years, and there hasn't been much enthusiasm for it at this point. I think that discussion needs to continue, but I don't see any movement in that direction.

This is the position of the board: Hands off, ... We want to help these schools get back on their feet, not hurt them.

That kind of attention makes me feel comfortable with the product we serve. If he's cutting it, he's inspecting it, too.

That means everything to me. It's not just a family putting their name on something, but putting their heart and soul in it.

They delay and may go to (another) school and in four months get eight or 10 core course requirements. And within that sequence you might be taking Algebra I and II and geometry, which doesn't make sense (that) you could fulfill those (at the same time).

The revelations surrounding the firings this past six months were much more than just breaking a rule,