Craig Littlepage Quotes on Education (9 Quotes)

These schools are just buying games, buying wins. That's not fair, and it's not what's good for college basketball. ... There has to be some reward for people willing to play a good schedule and realizing that when you play good people, you're going to win some and you're going to lose some. We should reward the people that are willing to challenge their teams.

That was really the new path we had to go down, was to evaluate a number of schools from the types of conferences to which you refer, and contrast them to those teams from the supposed power conferences.

If there's a message, the larger schools, the larger conferences, really do have a choice on who they play in non-conference.

We did talk about it a great deal. We spent some time with the school and the Big East conference considering whether he would be available. He's a key good player and this is a good team.

I think that was really the new path we had to go down. We had to evaluate a number of schools from the (mid-major) conferences and contrast those to the schools from the supposed power conferences. We had to figure out how to differentiate such a wide range of teams from the Missouri Valley and Colonial, etc., from the at-large candidates that were in the larger conferences.

We took more time looking at those schools, looking at their schedules and watching their games.

Florida State certainly had an outstanding year. When we looked at the full work that they did in comparison to a pool of other people at the point that we were considering these schools, the decision was made to go in a different direction.

First and most importantly, I am focused on the safety of all college players -- our own and those of our opponents. I am thankful no one was hurt as a result of this play and am sorry it occurred. I am also focused on how the University and Brad Butler, as well as all college football, will be viewed in the aftermath of the Boston College game.

I think that would be a pretty strong resume for the University of Virginia, for Maryland, for Colorado, for whoever the school might be. That sort of profile in our level of league, I believe, would be a good resume.