I think every staff thinks that. Everyone thinks, 'Hey, we're going change these guys. We're going to do this.' It's not going to change unless the players want it to change, and that's the big thing.

[Oddly, for a group so enamored of patterns, local change-ringers fail to see Houston's ascension as part of a larger trend.] It's chance that we all ended with them, ... Individuals got interested in bells and decided this was what they wanted for their churches.

Steve is the most competitive guy I've ever had in 26 years of coaching. I really thought he'd be this good because he's such a competitor.

It was booming, I had to move because they sold my lot to KFC.

I met Steve one day at the Taco Bell. I fell in love with him right there.

He's getting better. He's a work in progress, and he's coming through with more confidence about what he's doing. Obviously he's in better shape. He's going to be good.