It's good in terms of numbers and it's bad in terms of trying to choose teams. It's great for the program ... I guess for most schools it would be a good problem to have.

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

Faith has numbers and good athletes. Timber Lake and McIntosh will also put together good teams.

I can see the argument that some clubs could make about some teams having an advantage in terms of the talent available to them in their area. That would be my argument if I were in Kansas City.

The numbers are fluctuating up and down a bit each year, but the fact that the surveys consistently show more than 30 percent of our kids are overweight means we all have a lot more work to do.

They are decent teams, but, obviously, we didn't hit very well, and when we did, we didn't string our hits together.