Mike Davis Coach Quotations

Matt Painter has done probably the best job of any coach in our league when you look at the players he lost.

I feel like that is disrespect for me as a coach. If I can bring players in recruiting-wise, why can't I coach them?

It broke my heart to hear the news about Jason Collier. My sincerest condolences to his family in this difficult time. He was a great young man that I had the pleasure to coach at Indiana. He will be sorely missed.

I think every coach, whether or not they're going to be there next year, anytime they have a group of guys they really love and appreciate, I feel more sadness for them than anyone because they fought hard. They really fought hard over the last month. I'm proud of them.

Being a part of this, knowing I won't coach here anymore and won't coach these guys anymore was definitely a tough situation. But I'm proud of them, and they can hold their heads up high because they did a great job fighting back.

I should be trying to coach basketball and our guys should be enjoying their college careers. But I don't know if I've had a team that's had positive memories out of this whole deal since I've been here.

You're sad because as a competitor you'd like to go to the national championship game every year. I'm happy because six years from when coach (Bob) Knight was let go this is still a program. I'm very disappointed and sad I didn't get it done the way I would have liked.

He's really more of a hyper coach and likes to get into it.