Todd Turner Quotations

Scott is one of the most talented and respected athletic directors in the nation. With Scott's arrival, I believe we now have one of the strongest, most experienced, and talented administrative teams in the nation.

People want Washington to be noted as a place of integrity and quality and that's what Tyrone brings. We've been in court too much and in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

I wish the legislators would see how much money is leaving the state.

I had researched him well and I just admired the guy. I thought he had a philosophy of accountability and the kind of value system that was really appropriate on a college campus.

We've got to make it a destination event.

He's been a good, solid member of our staff, and I think that all of this is behind us and behind him.

He's done an incredible job of instantly changing the culture of what we've been having to deal with over the last few years. He's restored confidence in the players; he's returned them to being focused and more disciplined and more committed. You can see it in the way they act.

Our core business in athletics is about teaching and coaching.

Playing on the West Coast was very important. It's good for us and our fans.

Some of these lenders will continue that forever.

I think our schedule worked out well for our team. We had two new starters who were freshmen and we played a couple of challenging games early. It worked for our team. I will defend our schedule.

I think moving the tournament around is great for our conference.

I think he feels like this is the right place for him.

Whether you think the practice is good or bad. It's against the law.

We've never talked about a timetable, but both of us are experienced enough to know that things like this don't happen overnight. But at the end of the day we need to be a competitive football team that fits the university's image and its mission and its values. Tyrone will have as long as it takes to make sure that happens.

Those two things kind of parallel what's happened at Washington.

And you won't get him to do it. He is very respectful and has a lot of affinity; he loved his time there.

A fifth seed in what was supposed to be a down year validates our program.

Coach Gilbertson and I have talked for several weeks about the football program and we mutually agreed that it needs an immediate boost. Keith will finish this season as our head coach and has agreed to assist me beyond that time to develop a strategy for reinvestment by our university in its football program.

They (the lenders) prey on the uninformed and uneducated.

They say tourist dollars turn over in a community seven times, or something like that.

This is the next great program in America.

All parties agreed they talked about this a long time ago. I can assure you that all of us have learned from this, so our system will get better.

That kind of behavior is not tolerated on our team nor will it be tolerated in our athletic department. Hazing and intolerance is not part of our culture at Washington.

The best marketing we can do is win.

It just shows you how difficult it is to reach that high of a plateau.

They continue to slide a little bit and that concerns me. But the best marketing we can do is win.

They'll threaten to take the check to the prosecutor and have you arrested for writing a hot check.

Notre Dame's expectations are high, their traditions demanding. They made a decision they felt was right for Notre Dame, and it was to our benefit.

Arkansas is the only state in the country that has a Constitutional amendment limiting interest to 17 percent.

I don't want to second-guess their decision, but it certainly did well for the University of Washington. We got a guy who was a fantastic fit.

This is a good example in how complex and how many different tiers there are in administering an athletic program these days. It clearly was a matter of misunderstanding.