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

Anytime you bring additional strategy to the game, fans like it.

I think for every player it's different. Most guys play for as long as they can until they're sort of pushed out the door. But I do think there are guys who realize there's a whole 40 years of a working life ahead of you when you're 25 or 30 and you want to get on with it.

He loves the game. He gave it everything he had. What I really admire, though, is he said to me, 'Dad, I just couldn't keep doing it.' That cycle of injury, rehab, injury, rehab just got too much. He didn't want to stick around and begin to resent the game. He wanted to leave the game and still love the game. That's pretty impressive.

Football has always been a constant in my life and I'm excited about the unique opportunity to present America's favorite sport to fans in a new way. The XFL will create first-class organizations that local cities across the country will be proud of.

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.

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

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.

I'm a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It's been a more important, more substantial part of American life.

We always assume that what we do is the way it should be done - that's not always the case.

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

I think for every player it's different. Most guys play for as long as they can until they're sort of pushed out the door. But I do think there are guys who realize there's a whole 40 years of a working life ahead of you when you're 25 or 30 and you want to get on with it.

There will be relatively little in common with XFL 2001. I'll be the first to admit that the quality of the play in 2001 was not where it needed to be.

I'm a former player, I've got a bunch of friends that I played with over the years and I've seen the toll that playing football can have on their bodies. And of course my son was a player as well.

If you can't envision where you're going, you'll have a hard time getting there.

But for me it's critical to have pro football in Europe on a weekly basis. One exhibition game a year over here isn't going to do it.