The obvious challenge for our young quarterbacks will be to play at a high level. They don't have to fill Ryan's big shoes. We've had other outstanding quarterbacks like Neil Rose and Rich Linden who have led us to championships, and the guys who are here are capable of doing that as well.

The challenge [with the defense] is going to be in the depth. We'll have freshmen playing right away in our first week at Holy Cross in the defensive positions, certainly at defensive line and linebacker.

What you're going to see here is essentially a 13.1 mile party, ... This one will sell out early because of the strong running community in the Bay Area.

Tularosa is a very good team and we were looking forward to the challenge. We're glad to win the regional championship. We might play them again at the state. They have a lot of weapons and they did a good job of pressing. We told our kids that if we could break the press and score we could win.

I don't feel pressure. I see it as more of a challenge.

This is a lot for any organization to get their arms around. The biggest challenge is, are organizations going to respond to this big a solution?