Quick Hits....

“If you have a company, buy an extra 20 tickets up in the upper level and give them to your employees to go to. Because the university is not going to support the athletic department. We need to be like any other serious athletic program and it needs to operate on its own" -- Rockets Owner and Univ. of Houston booster Tilman Fertitta, after the school hired Dana Holgorsen as its next football coach (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 1/4).

"I get a lot of messages from different people saying it’s cool to see someone who doesn’t look like the norm doing something they want to do and actually succeeding" -- African-American PBR rider Ezekiel Mitchell (N.Y. POST, 1/4).