Leasure showed me some pretty good things down in Costa Rica. |
She's a competitor - been a basketball player herself. So we don't do anything competitive with cards or monopoly or anything. We just watch movies or watch a ballgame. We keep it like that. We've had our wars before on different things. So we decided it's best we don't do it anymore. |
So to say he pushed for it probably isn't fair. But I think he probably could have stopped it and didn't. |
Sometimes you need a different face. It just wipes the slate clean and they feel better about themselves. |
That game, I know it helped us beat Winthrop. I think there was a motivation there. You could see it in their eyes that they were determined to be better than the letdown of losing that game. |
That might have been the best 16 minutes we might have played this season. We did a good job on offense; we had patience. We got what we wanted. |
That was a great college basketball game there. Great environment. I told our guys, 'You live for opportunities like this, to have a chance to play in an environment and championship, the right to play in one of the most prestigious sporting events of all time, the NCAA basketball tournament. |
That was a great college basketball game. You can't walk out of this coliseum with your head down. You've got to be able to walk out proud. |
The rule has been in there. I took Tennessee a few years ago to the Dominican Republic. They have tried to do away with it, but it didn't go through. |
The second half, they showed they weren't going to go away. We do not know how to play with a big lead. |
The thing about it is they really don't know what their criteria is going to be. But I've P.R.ed as much as I can. |
They really went after him from the start. |
Thing is, for everybody on this side in the Eastern time zone, I'm sure you'd ask every coach and they'd say they wouldn't like to go [to Birmingham]. The travel thing is huge. |
This is a tough loss for us. |
This is what it's all about. This is something that the kids should look forward to — playing on national TV. |