As I stand before you today, I understand the responsibility that I have to contribute to upholding the great tradition and building new traditions at Ohio State. I understand the responsibility and accountability that I have for the people that I have the chance to be with, whether it be the folks of the media or the folks of the city of Columbus or our student athletes or students on campus or faculty or staff or managers or trainers or secretaries or assistant coaches. My responsibility is to those people, and certainly to the people of the great state of Ohio. The most exciting thing to me is the we can have that impact of excellence done the right way that will resound around the world and hopefully young people all over this state certainly and all over this world, will look at the way that our young people do it and the way that our coaches do it and the way that our faculty do it, and they'll want to do it just that way. That's what leadership is all about.
Leadership is service.
Leadership is making sure that excellence in everything we do, on and off the field, in the classroom, in the community, in our homes, where ever it happens to be, excellence is what's expected. I can't thank the people of Youngstown and Mahoning Valley enough because I know full well, that if it weren't for those 15 years, and those tremendous fans, and those national championships and those student athletes that were under our guidance all those years, that if those things didn't happen, I know that I wouldn't be here. I know how blessed I am. I can't thank those people enough. Obviously, I'm also blessed with a tremendous background.