I think too often we sit back and wonder whatever happens to those cases we hear about in the paper, and really those cases aren't going anywhere because of the backup. Right now we are all losing on this, so I whole-heartedly support a third court.

It's certainly a good indication that this race may be more interesting than anybody thought.

We sure as heck had our chances. I felt like we could coach harder and the older kids could do a better job of playing at game speed. That's what the first game of the year teaches you. It's a hard lesson.

Manual has a tremendous amount of speed, and we have a great deal of respect for that. We're looking forward to the challenge.

They were a better football team than we were in every phase of the game tonight. I don't know what else to tell you. Competition is very simple: You either get better or you get worse. We don't have a choice. We will get better. We'll get back to work tomorrow, and the young kids filling in for injuries will get better. We're undefeated in the district, and we just have to move on.

Those other states are not as easy to caricature. They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.