Eric Hyman Quotes (18 Quotes)

Really what it all boils down to is (charging) 40 to go watch a Southeastern Conference football game reasonable I think in the marketplace if you compare us (to other schools) ... it's more than reasonable.

We'll go out and ride bikes after you practice. You'll have a hard time keeping up with me. But I'll put training wheels on your bike.

Conference USA has been a terrific affiliation for us the last couple years, we want to make Conference USA the best possible conference it can be, ... But at the same time, we want to have a nationally prominent program, and we will always look for a vehicle with which we can achieve that.

We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.

You can't measure the value he brings to the program. It's tremendous. At our first booster club meeting there were 1,000 to 2,000 people who wanted to listen to him talk.

Give the credit to Dave (Odom). I may have jumped on board, but as soon as I got here and had a talk with Dave, one of the first things he mentioned was the history and some of the things he thought we should do I happened to agree, but it started with him.

It's just an announced crowd. I don't know that you could give an accurate count at a game. It's an announced crowd, unless somebody has a computerized system in place.

This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.

He has a familiarity in the system, both in the athletics department and in the university.

Is a 40 price to go watch a Southeastern Conference football game reasonable We've done our due diligence around the country. You'll see that it's more than reasonable.

There is life after sports. What we're trying to do is give you some skills to be successful out in the real world. I promise you I will take people to dinner or lunch for interviews, and I will watch how they eat to see if they have proper manners. It tells so much about a person.

We're coming closer to a resolution to this, and it will allow us to have 12 games. Ideally, like I've said, we'd like to play our traditional rivals the last game of the season.

I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

We want to make sure our student-athletes have a good experience and it recognizes what took place this fall. But we want to make sure we operate as a business would operate and we operate in the black.

Stability. I'm looking for stability. The key word that Craig said is shared vision. That's what we're excited about.

To captivate the attention from everybody around the country has elevated South Carolina to put us in the position where we can continue to build and maintain this momentum. What he's done this year is build a foundation, an anchor.

It's a cultural change. What we want is to mirror our student bodies (in academic performance and graduation rates). This is putting consequences on people who are not headed in that direction.