Dawn Rogers Quotations

To us, the home game is something we'd like to see. If we wanted the buyout, we would have asked for it now. We'd much rather have the game.

I think that's an admirable philosophy. But one, you have to win some of those games, and playing teams and not being able to win a certain number of those games in the end can hurt - and can hurt the league, potentially.

One of his strengths going into that job is his ability to get into the community. So much of what we do is having that support, not just in the alumni but with the corporate community. He really does a fantastic job of following through with those partners and making the relationship a win-win for both.

Our focus is strictly on getting a quality game. Building a schedule is really an art. We're looking at a number of different possibilities.

Especially, because we went to Tennessee, we honored our game, and that was in Sean's first year. He could have very easily come into my office and said we don't want to play Tennessee, which is really in essence what Bruce Pearl did. We've never been in a situation where a team hasn't returned the game.

At the end of the day, what you have to be able to do is know you're making the right decisions for the program, believing in what your vision is for the program, and you have to be able to endure a lot of criticism. But at the end of the day, you also have to be able to laugh it yourself.

We envision humans healing animals and animals healing humans.

What's ironic is that when we found ourselves coming together on these rescues, none of us knew the other had been abused. We discovered our common bond only after we started caring for the animals.

We just found out about it today. We've made a decision how we're going to go forward, and coach Hunter isn't here tonight. We're going to move forward from that. That's the last we're going to talk about. We're just going to move forward.

People have been so kind and generous. It has been amazing.