Athlete Quote by Bob Costas

Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or…

— Sally Jenkins

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back…

— Arne Duncan

At some point, universities have to do more to prepare players for university life and help them succeed beyond football. There's so much money…

— Josh Rosen

So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are…

— Frank Deford

I feel like we bring in a lot of money to the universities. We put in a lot of work. Some guys don't have…

— Kyler Murray

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing…

— Charlie Pierce

When your two major sports, your two revenue sports, are going well, that bodes well for the whole university.

— Tom Izzo

I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair…

— Eddie George

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if…

— H. L. Mencken

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics…

— Susan Orlean

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even…

— Jemele Hill

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do…

— Anonymous