Mike Slive Quotations

It is very gratifying to see, as so much of the media pronounced us dead in November.

When we pick the final few teams, you couldn't slide a piece of paper between them.

So there are several format and administrative issues that are not necessarily newsworthy, but that will take some time and some thought and some consideration.

It creates a situation that would tolerate that format.

This is brand new for me so I didn't think about it at all. It's interesting that it has not come up before. If such an issue were to arise ... it's one that we will have to begin to think about and talk about.

We really don't have any concern about that. One thing this tragedy taught us is that we all need to be flexible.

Coaches develop relationships with these students, and if they come to believe in them as people, not just athletes, they want to give them the benefit of the doubt if they can. Not all of them make it. We know that. But we have given them the opportunity.

Coach Vaught certainly was one of the great icons in SEC football. If you look at the list of names (of) great all-Americans from here that played for him ... you just get a sense of what he's meant to this conference.

It's important now that this loophole be looked at nationally, ... In 2000, when the N.C.A.A. decided to move away from some critical analysis, it opened the door and people moved ahead with it.

It's good to have him back in the league.