He understands his assignment, but maybe not the whole concept of what we're trying to accomplish with the play. We're just trying to get him to understand the total picture and get a little more effort out of him.

I was just trying to find five players who could play defense. We played a very porous defense.

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

This is a team sport, and the kids know that we are trying to be more diversified and not have as much of a feature player as we had last year. We're going to spread it around a little bit more, and hopefully that makes us a little more dangerous.

I had over 100,000 hits and 200 people e-mail me in the first month. Now I'm trying to find a place in Croatia, maybe Montenegro.

I knew coming in the game was gonna be physical. A lot of their guys play football and they're real physical. So I tried to prepare my kids mentally for that.