They Said It

Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State football coach, after Center Walt For-man, whose grade average was 3.89 out of a possible 4.0, quit the team to enter medical school: "We've learned our lesson. We won't recruit anybody that intelligent again."

John Erickson, Wisconsin basketball coach, on his attempt to recruit 7-foot-1 Lew Alcindor, now a UCLA sophomore: "I told Lew we wouldn't accept him until he took back what he said about the University of Wisconsin. What he said was: 'I won't come.' "