If we?re talking about seeding so five does not play six, then I?m for that. But if you?re talking about five must host the game, then I don?t go for that. Television can give great exposure or exposes you. We need to keep going to great sites and go to places where the best atmosphere can be portrayed.

It?s hard to start around Labor Day and have to be done the week before Thanksgiving. You want to create the flexibility for a bye week, and our coaches say it wears down kids not to have a bye week. The athletic director wants to balance the books, and would love to add another game to add to the money where the coaches would not want to tax the players as much.

Going to the tournament and talking to him about the decisions he made and asking him how he put it together gave me a sense of his abilities. I talked to him (about the Wild management job) before this year's tournament and he said he couldn't talk about it until after the tournament.

Yeah, you're talking about an emergency.

I think there's still a feeling that we're not for real among some of the talking heads. But I think we'll truly be a conference to be reckoned with on Selection Sunday.

Everybody is talking about the new 'Star Wars' stuff. They actually have a couple of deluxe costumes that they've never released before, the Chewbacca and Darth Vader.