It better be a learning experience for us, because we can't take anything else away from it. It's painful, because that's a game we shouldn't have lost. It starts from top to bottom, and everybody needs to do a better job starting right now. |
It drives me crazy and I think it's institutional. You know, 'we're not going to win, we're from Morse.' The kids' attitudes throughout the school are like, 'well, we're not supposed to win.' And sometimes I see our kids are more competitive with each other than with their conference. It's weird. |
It means a lot, and we're excited about it. It means a lot for our future, and our future employees. |
It will get better and better with each event. I know staff wasn't satisfied, but they did a tremendous job Saturday. |
It's kind of like a split tournament week. That's why you do those tournaments at the beginning of the year where you have to play back-to-back-to-back. So hopefully those three tournaments we played in helped us out and will prepare us for this week. |
It's still hard to imagine. I woke up this morning and thought it was a dream. |
It's very big because every game is important. They're the best team in the state. We're not going to back down. We know we respect the heck out of them. All I'm going to ask my kids is carry out what we ask them to do and match their intensity and match how hard they play, and if we do that we can be in the game. |
Kane was such a leader for that team, but not only that he was a leader that would go to the extreme. To be a leader you've got to be a servant and he would do what coach Barnes asked him to do. |
Lewiston's very talented. I just had a good feeling about today. Honestly, it's just the little things. It's not missing the big shot. It's just the fact that we don't do little things. We've got a lot of bad habits we've got to break. |
Nick wrestled twice on Tuesday and twice on Wednesday. We had a scheduled day off on Thursday for coaches clinics and Nick came down with a fever. He had a 101-degree temperature by Thursday afternoon. There was no way he could wrestle on Friday. |
On the road you've got to be about a 10- or 15-point better team. It's different when we come over the mountain. We know that. All the coaches in the conference know that. We can't whine or complain about it, you have to suck it up and try to do something else to overcome that. It's part of it and you have to adjust to what's being called on the floor. |
Passive solar pencils out the quickest. If you're adding flat plate and evacuated tubes (that use sunlight to heat water) you better approach that with a pretty sharp pencil, and you better have a good designer. |
Randy?s teams are always very well prepared and they always play hard and they execute. They might not always be the most talented team in the conference but they make up for it with those reasons. Down at their place it?s even tougher. I knew they were going to be better this year than they were last year. |
Rogers is a great team with great players. We respect them and we respect coach Barnes but we don't fear them. We don't fear anyone when we walk on the basketball court. |
That's a huge area. We can all make this a really special room. |