It is really nice to see that we won't have any penalties. All of our coaches understand the importance of this. It is part of their job description now to meet these academic progress numbers.

We will not have any penalties. We knew that we would have three programs that were close and that we are in really good shape with some of our other programs. Overall, we are headed in the right direction.

It is important that we are all on the same page and the same time frame. I am a lot more comfortable talking to coaches about staying and making commitments when I know that I am going to be working with them. It provides security for the whole department.

We have talked about what he wanted and the future of Wolf Pack football. If we can come to some agreements (today), and I have all the confidence in the world that we will, we will talk about what's going to happen with the remainder of his contract and the years to come.

I need to talk to (Ault) first. It's not fair for him to read in the paper what I am planning to do.

Coach Fisher taught me how to drive. He was also my brother's basketball coach.