First of all, you have to deal with their tradition. They're bigger than us, and they're probably faster than us overall.

I can't really say (one) guy totes us. Different guys step up every night and play well.

They warned us that this could happen when they took the other building down. I hoped this wouldn't happen.

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

It changed the (team's) mentality. He brought a toughness to us.

The state did some re-leveling of standards so it was hard for us to know how we did compared to last year. That's the frustrating part. Instead we must compare how we did against the state; from that angle we are very pleased.