It's going well so far. A lot of people are hearing about us word-of-mouth.

It's almost always been between us and Richards as the top people in the conference, and I've been hearing they've got a really good team. They have some athletes, but I think we can match them.

From everything we're hearing from the sportsmen of Pennsylvania, I think it was loud and clear they wanted to see some changes in seasons. Obviously they're not going to be happy at all.

Our people have been overwhelmed with appeals. And our current computer database does not allow us to create a future-year file for developing market values.

[So why did Romar start pumping his fist upon hearing Hawes' words ... and then emit an audible sigh of relief? Because there's another perspective on Spencer Hawes -- the one seen by the greater college basketball world, to whom Hawes' defining biographic data is not the three generations of Huskies in his bloodlines. They care that he is a 6-foot-11 1/2 center with an offensive skill set so polished his AAU coach, former Utah assistant Jim Marsh , compares him to former Utes recruits Tom Chambers and Kevin McHale , because Hawes] has more ways to score than you can imagine. ... didn't really matter as much to me as everyone may have perceived.

We keep hearing everybody's raising taxes, but we're not,