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So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.

We play very fine schools on any given day.

We've got to recruit at the same level of the people who are winning titles and playing for titles, and to do that, we've got to have great facilities.