We said, 'No, you didn't have to go there. You've got three more options. We couldn't talk him out of it. They must've made some kind of mark. We couldn't believe he made the decision. We thought he'd be a Big Ten, rah-rah type of athlete.

He wasn't going to look at the Ivy League. I told him he didn't want me to tell his children that he passed up just the option. There had to be one Ivy League school visit. I wasn't going to tell my grandkids that their father didn't even consider it.

I think at first it was not a perfect experience. There was zero student participation. He would play football and no one would be in the stadium. Football athletes were really frowned upon. ... They did a great sales job. In essence, it wasn't the case.

Dreaming. Numb. Totally numb. We walked out and said, 'What just happened?' He just obviously felt like a million dollars.

He does, he teaches you the fundamentals, which I believe is a lot of the art of the college game and so the guys from Hopkins, I feel, have a real advantage as far as that goes.

We knew we had to come out and withstand that first blow. And not only withstand it, but to punch back. A big focus of ours was to come out strong.