You've got to get people looking outside the company at customers and competitors,

We'd really have liked Vermont to have joined the league next year.

We played what I think is a really solid, physical team in Lowell. They're bigger and stronger than we are. They're older and a bit more experienced. We took a lot of hits, but we got up and played.

This situation calls for the company's going into crisis mode, adopting a degree of urgency that recognizes if things don't break right, the unthinkable could happen, that time is of the essence.

I believe the shareholders will support reducing the dividend as part of an equality of sacrifice plan that can increase the value of their shares over time.

I do believe the time has come to go into crisis mode.