Fran was averaging about 30 points a game for us in the summer leagues, so losing him was a really big blow for us.

It really took the wind out of their sails. It would have been like us losing Andy Miller last year for the year.

The football players (including Gallagher and Pat Devlin) are trying to find their legs and conditioning. They are working their way through the physical part of it. We are not in sync offensively. There's no rhyme or reason, and that's put me in a quandary.

Right now, we're going to war with a pistol offensively and other teams are carrying bazookas.

It's tough because I'm the captain of the ship, and let's face it, it starts with me. But I think, forgetting this season for a moment, we've had more pluses than minuses.

I found over the years, if you have a real good player, you can feed off that player. [Good] players have a lot to [do with] making good coaches.