Wherever we are, we make sure that it is safe enough under University conditions.

We understand the devastation there, and the need for help. We just want to give people the opportunity to come out and help.

This trip, we really just want to focus on making a change. We feel that we could do that best in New Orleans, especially with what has happened there. We feel commissioned, like it is our mission, to go there and help out.

It's a very similar process to a university or hospital being accredited. It's a thorough process and normally a department spends about two or three years doing self-assessment making sure it meets the rigorous standards required by CALEA.

We have been blessed with great tradition - established by having a great University, great coaches and great players. In establishing a set of criteria with extremely high standards, these three stood out among the rest. Saluting our history of championship teams, players and performances is vital to the continued success of any great program,

Let me emphatically state that no inducements or improper offers have ever been done to any recruit at the University of Arkansas. I believe the source of the claim has a lack of credibility, and I believe it was intentionally done to harm our program.