Today they kind of turned that performance around a little bit, ... That's a good sign of things to come, hopefully. That's really what we have to do if we're going to compete against some of the better A schools this year. We talked about not leaving strokes out on the course.

Being a senior and having the most experience on the team, he kind of showed what you need to do, ... He was able to grind out a score where others let some holes get the best of them. He's been an outstanding leader and done a great job over the years for us.

Prairie Winds is a great test of golf. The back nine is a tough track and I think it kind of beat up the entire field a little bit, ... That's kind of the name of the game. Who can make it through? Are you going to let the course beat you or are you going to handle the course?

We're looking to try and get our fourth and fifth guys to pick it up a little with our conference meet coming up,

It's the great secret Caesar knew and that Octavian (Caesar's successor, the future emperor Augustus) would find out, because he learned a great deal from Caesar: that as long as you retain the forms of a democratic republic, you can gut the whole thing. It's how you sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same ... there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.