I told him that I don't think I'm ready, but the big thing he and coach Conley and Sonny all said was, without me attending and playing, that I won't know where I stand. If anything, it'll be a learning experience to see what I have to work on.

Coach Jordan told me I have to step up. I was always ready.

I had called Sonny and told him that I wanted to talk to him and get some suggestions about how to run an audit, like we're conducting right now. So he came and we reviewed that folder that contains all the different information from all the schools regarding the (allegations).

Coach [C. Vivian Stringer] told us before it even started that it was going to come down to the last seconds.

We're not ready at all. We're just not. I told those guys that defensively we're not ready. Offensively, I think we'll be able to score some points. Defensively, we're not ready for Big Ten basketball yet. In fairness, we haven't mixed things up and we've just played man-to-man defense.

I told Tom that if I was a coach, that?s who I?d want on the field, ... I had all the confidence in the world in our defense and I?d still take our defense next time.