I thought he was the best quarterback in the state when he was in high school, and I still believe that.

We knew we had to step up more than usual. I started to feel a rhythm early and I thought it was very big for us to be up (after one quarter).

I thought they would have come with some recommendations that actually reduce the burden -- maybe, you'll only have to, say, audit a third of the controls in any given year. Or maybe they would have come with some clarity on what are effective controls, a problem for all-sized companies.

It's been murder, but fun.

[French said his players have to disregard Montgomery's winless record and take care of business.] They're run into some tough breaks, but they've played people pretty well. They're struggling over there a bit, but that's typical when you come in with a new staff, ... They look solid on offense and defense, they just have tendency to lose focus.

We've got a chance. We've got to win this week and hope North can knock off Whitley. There's a lot of hope involved in there. When we played Whitley, we had chance to beat them. But we've still got a prayer.