Jay Jacobs
Jay Jacobs
best decision deliberate diligently explore options rush sure
We're going to diligently look at our options and make the best decision for Auburn. We're going to try not to rush anything. We'll be deliberate and keep things moving, but we're going to explore and make sure we know what's best for Auburn.
asked division expect facilities reasonable
We've asked the facilities division to give us some information, what they think is reasonable that we could expect this to cost.
base best came create decision demand excitement ok people seats sister top wanting
We're going to make the best decision that doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage with our sister institutions. I want to base it on what came here in 1999 when we were top 10 in the country. That's where we're headed. It's OK to have a demand that outweighs the supply. It's OK for us to not have enough seats to create a demand and excitement and people wanting to attend.
analysis appearance wholly
His appearance and analysis under the circumstances would be wholly inappropriate.
forward looking move
We're not looking to do anything other than to look forward and move forward.
academic care facility fix managing share taken
We've got to fix that. Some of that is being taken care of by managing the facility and reprioritization. It's a multi-use facility. We share that with the university's academic mission.
capacity higher maybe worse
Well, maybe not worse than this right now. I was working with children, and sometimes they have a higher capacity than adults.
accomplish allowed avoid conference five game games home instead middle moving playing september weekend
Moving the LSU game to Sept. 16 allowed us to accomplish two goals. First, we are able to avoid playing five consecutive conference games in the middle of the schedule. Secondly, it allowed us to have our first SEC home game in September instead of the first weekend in October.
comparable
I think what they have is comparable to what we want to end up with.
anywhere kim pushed team
Kim is not being pushed anywhere whatsoever. This is the team we are assembling. It is well thought-out.
blanks confident
We may have some blanks to fill, but I'm confident we'll do that.
athletics cardinal department ensure following mission others statement treat
Our mission statement is to ensure Auburn has the pre-eminent athletics department in the nation. And we're going to get there by following our two cardinal rules: Always tell the truth, and always treat others as you'd like to be treated. If we can do that, we'll succeed.
attitude exactly expressed led strongest supporters
That attitude expressed by Ford's supporters is exactly the rationale that led us to support the strongest candidate.
additional apparel ask both create deal ends fighting increase looking program pulling ticket
We just did a ticket increase and an apparel deal with Under Armour. Some of that would go to it. We're looking at fighting it from both ends -- pulling from these additional revenues we had to create to keep our program where we all want it to be and go out and ask donors.