An attendance committee looked at the enrollment and Pinkham still has room while Washington is quite full.

They take all of our passports and disappear ... Finally they came back. They had called Washington and cleared us all again and we were able to get on the plane.

This project has what in Washington, D.C., we call traction. There are people in Washington who wouldn't mind seeing this project succeed.

When all is said and done, Greenspan is one of the people in Washington biting his fingernails the least right now. He can work with either of those guys.

Our returning players have taken a trip like this every year and we expect them to help lead the younger players through the road fatigue.

We have a really close-knit group this year who play hard for the program and each other. It's hard to put my finger on our strengths right now, but we need to get a handle on what we have confidence in and what we need to work on.