It's a big relief. We're looking forward to moving down the road and putting this behind us.

It's big for us to be 2-0 in the conference with two road wins. The conference is basically even, and we really think 8-2 could win it. So we're thrilled to be where we are.

I think the travel and being on the road so much the last three weeks finally caught up to us. The kids didn't have enough gas. We didn't have another gear to go to. We kind of ran out of magic here at the end.

It has been a long 10 months of negotiations. We are happy to finally reach a tentative agreement with the board and return our focus to the education of Elgin's students.

We surely do not want to go through it. It's our last resort. We feel we don't have other options available at this time.

This was our first step on our road to state. A lot of guys had a real good start. We have some guys really starting to get focused.