Quotes by John Heisler

“In a lot of previous cases, we did things more informally. There wasnt this great concern that the information was inaccurate. It just didnt enter your mind.”

“After youve been through that [OLeary incident], everyone approaches it with an entirely different mind-set. The good thing about athletics is most of the stuff is easily verified. But there are an awful lot of facts and figures in their bio, some of which is almost impossible to verify yourself without spending weeks. ... Given the level of scrutiny, weve got to be crazy not to get this right. Nobodys going to cut any corners. If it takes another day, or week, to check something out, then it does. Lets not rush this.”

“We are very familiar with the phone number of our general counsel.”

“Does anybody do that anymore? They dont, and theres probably some good reasons for that.”

“Im not sure we think that people should just be able to come in and copy and essentially duplicate any sort of a press conference and just throw it up [on the Internet]. There ought to be some journalism involved here.”

“With these other events, theres a commodity of some sort. Were running a Web site as well, so we would like to drive traffic there. Our feeling is, particularly in terms of a press conference, everybody is welcome to cover it, but if you want to see the full-blown transcription or if you want to watch the whole thing, then our site ought to be the place to find that.”

“They have helped us extensively as far as some of the language [we use] to make it clear what ability you have to use material that you obtain at a game. We wrote it, and we ran it past them just to ask for some advice. It was more a matter of just trying to set the table and figure out how we can work this out.”

“Its going to be a year-to-year thing. Its certainly not going to be anything that jeopardizes games in the fall, but some of the questions are: where and when the work is going to be done and whats our ability to accommodate fans in the spring?”

“There still may be some way that this can be timed and structured where we could still play at home. But I guess at this point theres no guarantee. I think one consideration would be if there was work going on at one side of the stadium, would there be a way to seat people on the other side? Im not sure we have any answers yet.”

“The five places weve had the most conversations about and also had people from those sites wanting to talk to us have been Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas and New Orleans. I think when (athletic director) Kevin White has been talking about sites and years, he was talking philosophically. There are no deals in place yet. Weve got some work to do.”