Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

We're certainly in position to be a good defensive football team, ... Offensively, we have to be better. We have to make big plays.

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

When people write about what college football is all about they should write about Michael Robinson. He's everything that's good about the game.

I operated a professional football team in L.A. By no means was it the NFL, but I understand what it takes on some level to build and operate a professional sports enterprise in Los Angeles.