You've got to be afraid of doing anything that can hurt the team. If a coach or a team doesn't have that fear, they're more likely to get out of control. In closing, my advice to college athletes is to be very careful in every facet of their lives, both on and off the field. We're under a microscope. Anything we do has consequences that can ruin teams and scar individual careers.
People are different and they do different things.
They can throw statistics at me all they want, but that's what I believe. Matt Russell is a football player at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The number of administrators whose education and training is in management and who do not view the university as a special place has greatly increased in recent years, with the result that many of the traditional values of higher education have in many places been totally lost. It's ironic to note that, as universities turn away from the concept that they are special places where special things happen to glorified job-training agencies, public support for them has steadily eroded. And predictably, the more this tendency has accelerated, the more it has undercut the traditional justifications for the inclusion of athletics as an integral part of university life.