Our hope was we could give them a normal fall (semester) ? go to class, go work out and have a regular schedule. We think we did that.

I will have things to do like most retired folks, but I hope to work when I want to, not have to.

There's a lot of pressure taking over a successful program. We hope to win and have fun. Practice is work. The games are fun.

That doesn't happen very often; everything kind of went to script. It all goes back to the job Morgan did Friday night. When that Friday guy goes out and burns up a lot of innings, it really helps the rest of the weekend.

With Tomlin and Hynes out we're looking for something. If those two guys come back healthy the fact that we're finding some other people - Butler had a good outing last night -- it's going to help us later on hopefully. Richardson's had two great games in a row. We need him to be ready to go next Thursday and do it again.

Brooks was one of the greatest competitors we ever played against.