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I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.