It's a good thing to take the kids to. It's one of those things you go to no matter what time of year it is.

Once you set a standard, you don't want to go below that. That's how it's coming off to everyone ? the fans, ourselves, the coaches, our staff ? that we're playing below par right now. Every program's going to have times like this. Is that acceptable? No.

That was a big, big block by Adam. That's what we need at the end of games. Defense. Ferris State is a great team. They made us a better team tonight. This win is a big character builder.

Not many kids would have wanted to be in there.

Not many kids would have wanted to have been in there. But he's just getting through to us that we've got to play a lot harder than we did.

We didn't play very consistent. I am extremely happy with a couple of our kids that came off the bench. But as a whole, I wasn't happy with our effort. I thought we took a step back from yesterday and that's disappointing.