Coming into a new system, and having to teach the kids a new system takes a while to execute.

We're a young ball club. The biggest thing we've been trying to get our kids to do is to fight through the bad things on the ball field. I was proud of how they fought through them tonight.

[Marquette's] another one of those guys who hasn't had a tremendous amount of football experience, but we're working on getting him tougher, and we're real pleased with how well he's been responding.

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

Our admissions people tell us there is certainly a buzz about the university when you talk to high school kids across the country,

You always want to get in a tournament to see where your kids are at. Most of our kids haven?t played in big-time tournaments. This is going to be eye-opener for the kids. We will be ready as we can. It?s exciting and scary at the same time.