[Athletic director Ron Martinez was impressed with the showing. He said,] The coaching staff was well prepared and their organization was impeccable. ... We were as well prepared as we could be, but there's a lot of room for improvement. |
But even at this rate, we're growing faster than the market and anticipate continuing to do so. Revenue management is really the watchword for us at this point. |
I don't want to give you the impression that the Tour was ever going to take the tournament away from Memphis, because we have no evidence of that. But we didn't want to take that chance. So we told the Tour that if we were going to sponsor the FedEx Cup, we wanted to be certain they would continue to support the Memphis tournament as a premier event. |
The defense made few mistakes and ran to the football. |
They went out, executed and kept their mistakes to a minimum. The team spirit and raw excitement told the story. |
We couldn't give Filer an inch and felt we had to stay in control. We knew we'd have success running so that's what we did. |
We had to have a baseline to operate from, and that was the Filer game, but our biggest growth spurts should come against Hillcrest and Minico. Hillcrest is traditionally a real physical team that takes pride in simplicity and emphasizes execution. |
We think Scott has real good vision and good tools. He's quick and can run. He took care of the football for us and didn't put it on the ground. When he saw a crack, he hit it. His line did a good job providing him with opportunities. |
We think we've got a favorable economic environment overall. But revenue management is the focus as we talked about during the analysts meeting in New York and we have got to strike that right balance. |