It was his lifelong dream to make the N.F.L.. It's too bad that his life has hit another fork in the road.

He wanted me to know what he had done. First of all, he said he committed a violation. Secondly, he gave the money to a prospective student-athlete.

People are born Buckeyes.

We'd like very much to see a reduction in the interdependence of beer and football.

We're now in the 19th month of the NCAA process. Having a coach in limbo or having a coach suspended would be grossly unfair to the young people who play basketball at Ohio State. It would have arrested any development of our program and that would have been an untenable solution.

I am troubled that a rule was admittedly violated and it took us five years to find out about it.

It's in the blood, it's in the soil here.

When you land at the airport, you don't get very far before you realize you're in Buckeye country.

I don't know that.