It was a good start for us. We have a lot of depth on our team, and that always helps at meets. Our seniors performed how we would expect them to, but our youngsters were very impressive.

Come back. Join us when you're ready and we're ready to go on with you -- or without you.

If we move two or three spots, that would be one thing, but I can't see us moving into the top five. One of those players would really have to fall out of it and end up at No. 9 or 10.

The conference report before us, I'm unhappy to say, makes a mockery out of the budget, ... In fact, if we adopt this conference report, I think that there is no need we should ever adopt another budget.

I want a program to get us started,

But we won't be putting all our eggs in the one basket as the Tigers are much taller than us right across every position.