Our defensive intensity went down rather than up. With every good team there's going to be ups and downs and whoever plays the hardest comes out the winner.

How I feel is just a lot of anger and sadness and motivation at the same time. We just lost four good seniors, and we're going to miss them a lot. But everybody has to stay strong. Next year, we're going to come back and we're going to bring it.

I've never felt so good. We've been playing so well lately. We've made it farther than we have in God knows how many years. We feel real good.

When we got word she was placed on the commission as a representative of the Nation of Islam, we were clearly concerned. This is a body aimed at eradicating hate. In Mr. Farrakhan's words over the years, he's actually espoused hate.

It will tell the stories of African-American culture from slavery through civil rights.

Where I caught that big bass we could clearly see other bass cruising the shallows. That tells me that they are moving up and getting ready to bed. In fact, we saw several beds in about 5 feet of water. Everybody is getting excited about the spawn. We'll probably have bass on the beds by this weekend. But the real push of spawning bass won't come for another 10 days or so.