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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.

I don’t expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they’d say, ‘What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.’ And yet we have this thing we don’t get involved in.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Another big difference about not being in college: In college, you’re on the team, you’re competing for the NCAA – luckily I had a full scholarship and I was taken care of – then all of a sudden you’re a pro and you’ve got to take care of yourself. I’m gonna keep doing the same thing, keep training, and hopefully everything works out.

The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.

The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.

I know he’s going to be fired up. He’s going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He’s probably been looking forward to this match since last March.

SMU: ‘It’s unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do’ in canceling SMU’s 1988 football season.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it’s crazy.

It is a tremendous honor to be a No. 2 seed, and to get to play so close to home in Dayton. It is an incredible feeling, and it will be interesting to start preparing. But right now we need some rest and then we’ll get our guys going for the NCAA Tournament.

The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

A return to the NCAA is the expectation… I think that’s a good pressure. I’d rather that pressure to the other way. … I like a little pressure on me.

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.