I've been told that the goats eat it down to the roots and it dies.

We were outraged. We went to the State's Attorney's office and the Attorney General's office and were told there was nothing they could do.

If you had too many elk, deer and mountain goats in a given unit, they eat the vegetation and they would actually destroy their own habitat if we allowed them to grow without check.

We have people coming from Atlanta and other cities every week to buy goats to take home to eat. Most of them are from Mexico or India or somewhere where goats are a regular part of people's diets.

I asked [Bud] Koper after the game why he didn't show up to eat and he told me he wasn't hungry. If I had a rule that said you couldn't start or couldn't play if you missed the pregame meal, then we would have lost the game [Koper scored 44 points in a victory]. Sometimes it's better not to have that many rules.

I was bummed, but I'm happy for him, ... I told him, 'I just want you to go where you're happy. Obviously, I want you to be here.' I thought he was pretty close to coming.