On changes taking place in college football

Georgia State coach Bill Curry: As usual with Americans, we’re doing too much, too big, too fast. I mean, all of us; I’m not talking about Georgia State. I think Georgia State had no choice but to make the move to FBS when we did and to the Sun Belt. I believe that was not only a good decision, but it will eventually prove to be a great decision. But I don’t think that the overall tenor of what’s going on in college football is good for the universities or the student-athletes, with all the shifting and all the emphasis on the money and the TV ratings and revenues. I think the interest in how the championship game is going to be structured is fun. That’s interesting. But we don’t have the emphasis on the student-athletes the way we should.

Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson: I think change is inevitable, and it’s going to happen. So, you know, I hope we don’t get too far away from where we are now because the game’s as popular as it’s ever been. But I think sometimes change is good and tweaks are good.

Georgia coach Mark Richt: Sometimes it’s kind of like that frog that gets put in the water that’s getting heated up slowly and he doesn’t realize he’s getting hot and there’s a lot of change going on before he realizes it’s too late to get out. I guess what I’m saying is sometimes when you’re in the middle of it you really don’t have a perspective to stand back and look at it. I’m so busy trying to run our program the way it needs to be run and adapt to new rules changes and whatever it may be, I’m having a hard time seeing the big picture of it.