Basically I stood back and let her do all the work. I was still on the sidelines and did administration stuff, but she did all the coaching and it freed me to concentrate and devote all my energy to the boys. It all worked out well. |
Big Jim did a great job going against their big players. And Cobb did a great job for us off the bench. We came out with a lot of intensity. |
But at the beginning of this year, once the ratings were in for the first three or four stations, the sceptics became apostles. |
From December 2002 until the end of 2004 it was pretty much laughed out of the room, |
I wanted to be on the winning side (on the record), but to it was truly unbelievable to have the season we had. The kids just stepped up and played well. |
I've done them ever since I was small; my grandma taught me how. |
If you're on a roll you get two or three. |
In the last 20 years, all these spots and sales promotions and contests were designed to deliver to advertisers, but we've lost sight of the fact that we have to get the listeners first. |
It was tough (initially) because I didn't know how to do both at the same time. |
My great-grandfather used to sell peanuts in the park. He'd deliver ice - anything to make ends meet. |
My sister and I decided we would go in a different direction. We had a dream of opening a restaurant for years before we made it happen. |
She was the one. My grandmother taught my mom and the rest of us how to cook everything that we serve here. |
That is the kind of cultural and social planning that we have to reinstate. |
That number could double in two years. |
The kids wanted to work hard and to be a competitive program. I took their energy and built on it. I took the energy and shaped it best way I saw fit. |