Tim Tessalone Quotations

Half of the ones he signs show up on eBay,

He's got some family coming down tomorrow. He's expected to go home Thursday.

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator. We give them to (contributors). What this legislation has done is it cheats these other areas.

We said, 'We have this budget, so let's use it,'

Whenever we are aware that media outlets ask student-athletes to do these kinds of tags we immediately cut them off. Unfortunately, this one slipped by.

We're still in the process of looking for a basketball coach, ... As of this morning, we have no announcement regarding a new hire. Tim Floyd is obviously one of the coaches we're looking at.

At the time he made his decision he was acting under the law of the land. In this new era of the NCAA looking out for the good of the student-athlete we hope they'll allow him to return to school.

A lot of our players do get a lot of national attention,

It really hurts those schools that have a long-standing tradition. The schools that this was done for don't have a lot of history or a lot of money, but they will start having this tradition and money in a couple years.

That's the first that we've heard of it and I probably need to verify it with Winston.

There was some discussion about moving the game. It just wasn't really feasible to move it.

It's kind of a precedent-setting situation. We believe the NCAA will look at the situation and we hope that they'll look out for the welfare of the student-athlete.

Being in L.A. might make it a little more unique with the entertainment angle and the Hollywood thing, but we're very much a college team. Everything we do and talk about, we talk about the college experience. We've never said anything but that they're college students.