We must have our freshmen step up and contribute to the team right away. We must keep working everyday to get better.

They have the athletes. We got the championship trophy, by default.

There was a valuable lesson to be learned there, for all the runners on all the teams. Both teams did so well and battled all day long.

It will attract, hopefully, some new interest and blood to track and field. No more missed practices.

M&A is a much more lucrative exit for them right now. It is hard to say whether a window will open up again where we'll see strong IPO activity, but I think M&A will remain the more popular exit in 2006.

There were some mistakes, but for the most part I think I did all right out there,