Quotes from Oliver Luck

Even athletic directors can do the simple math. Five conferences, five power conferences, and only four slots.

But there is something to be said for having one individual who is responsible entirely for the capital commitment. And it's not WWE; it's Vince McMahon and his company, Alpha Entertainment. It's not like I have to go to a board of directors. Vince makes the decisions on what he wants to do, and that makes my life easier.

I'm a football guy, but to me, nothing is sacred.

Football is a product, and you can package it anyway you want to.

There is nothing worse than sitting in a ballpark and somebody is vomiting behind you.

I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience.

There's no dancing on the grave of the AAF. We watched them, we're going to take lessons from them. To a certain degree, it's a cautionary tale.

I think it should be hard to get into the playoff. It really should.

We want the best sort of 500 players or so that we can possibly get, and the best 500 players typically have a very similar background. They've played three or four years of college football. They're mature. They're professional.

There are a lot off very good college players after a year or two who may not want to play that third year of college football, may need to earn a little money, support the family.

Once you're under contract with the XFL, you're under contract, regardless of position. We're not trying to be a development league for the NFL.

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

We have high expectations at West Virginia University for success on and off the field and as Coach Holgorsen has acknowledged to me, we are not meeting those expectations on the field.

If Pitt is on the short list, there's no reason that West Virginia shouldn't be on the Big 12 short list.

Bust your butt, play hard, have a chance to get great game tape and you'll get a shot in the NFL. We are a league of opportunity.

Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote these books. And it's really all about sort of false thinking. They try to go in and look at a number of different phenomenon.

I think there's a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we're trying to stay on the proper side of that.

I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible.

Worked my way up the proverbial food chain to become president of NFL Europe.

We're trying to keep the 'foot' in 'football.'

I spoke to a bunch of University of Houston students and said, 'One of the beauties of the free enterprise system we have in this country is that there's capital that people are willing to put at risk for new ventures and startups.'

If there's anything my kids have taught me, it's that my general belief in the good qualities of college athletics is alive and well.

Quarterback play is important for every level of football.