I'm extremely disappointed. I'm proud of the way our program runs and the way our kids represent the school, but there's some differences with the administration with the way I conduct business.

The facilities are great, the kids are great, but there's an underlying pressure that's there and nobody talks about it. That's the way it is, and it sucks. We all want to win, but the kids and the relationships are why we do this. If it's the winning that drives us, I don't want to be part of it.

These guys are high school kids, so of course (struggling at times) is going to linger with them a bit. But Nick was able to get himself back after a couple of bad pitches, rather than let it get away from him. It was important for Marc to get that ground ball right away, and he's really good about settling down and not getting too frustrated, realizing that's going to happen.

I was overwhelmed -- you just don't see kids read like that. I asked them where they went to school. They said Grosse Pointe Academy, so I came out here and checked it out. It's been a rough go, but they've helped out a lot with financial aid.

It is certainly true that people who graduate from high school and don't have kids before they are 21 have a higher earning capacity. But you can't begin to define the causes of poverty based on just those two factors.

We didn't settle for the 3. We worked the ball a little more. The worst thing you can do against Kamehameha is one shot and done.