It took a lot for Chris to deal with this all in stride. I saw the agony on his face during practices. He showed tremendous maturity by holding back and being patient with his rehab.

It's probably hard for you to imagine, but we took this thing in stride, step by step as we went through. We didn't talk about national championship very much, the players probably did some.

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.

I think it took them a while to hit their stride as far as jelling together. They are not the biggest serving team. Their hands are very good and they return serves real well. I was impresses with how they played in a couple of tough losses right there to start the season and they figured out what would work for them and have gotten it going.

I told Jack that if he outperformed his contract we would work out a new deal, and both of those things have now happened. We are on the right track and we want to continue on that path, and Jack Del Rio is the coach to lead this team.

He's a highly-skilled kid. He's been wrestling for more than half his life.