It was certainly a fantastic year to be so involved with the club, but I do not feel that I can contribute at the level I would like given distance and my other commitments.

We had a fantastic year last year and our graduating seniors are certainly going to be missed. But we've got some tremendous athletes on this team and it's just going to be a process of getting them stronger.

We are a different club and we are probably not as offensively as potent as we were last year. We certainly don't have the possibility to break a game open with the long balls like we did last year. We're a little bit younger in our offense, but somehow we found a way. Our pitching is more solid than it was last year from top to bottom. Our bullpen has been good on the balance of the year and having Andy Pettitte healthy has helped our rotation quite a bit. We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department.

It's certainly not in the job description, ... The good thing is I've been a head coach for 15 years. A first-year head coach could have been a wreck.

If they did not know the record of the Bull's Eye retailer, then they certainly were negligent because it was a very blatant, shoddy business that was being conducted insofar as the inventory of rifles was concerned, ... If they did know about it, then most assuredly they have an obligation to withhold the sale and to require them to monitor correctly the sale and the inventory of their weapons.

That's not all on my shoulders, but I certainly feel like I can get in there and manage it and handle the situation.