When you play teams that are close to you, you always have good games with them. You know what to expect, you've played each other so many times over the years, kids get to be familiar with each other and they're not intimidated.

They're very important games. We need to win all four of them so that we can keep ourselves in the Mountain West Conference race.

Even if we had not been able to lay this extra thick, ready to play turf, the games scheduled this weekend would be going ahead as the surface is not dangerous. What has happened is that we knew we had a problem with the grass when it was covered up for too long.

This means a lot. But our goal isn't to win the sectional. We want to play 27 games and win as many as we can.

Our guys like to play at home. We need to win our home games and try to split on the road.

These are three games we definitely should win. We are capable of winning if we play the way we can play. My expectations are to win three games and get us back to .500. I see no reason why we can't go and win all three games.