A registering senior is given four balls, a junior three and so on down to a freshman who only gets one ball in the drawing. This is the system we've been using for the last three years. We've had the fewest number of complaints with it.

He's a freshman, you know? Who can imagine what he'll be doing when he's a senior?

The igniter of this whole thing was Katrina Chapman. She's a freshman junior varsity player, who's been playing varsity. She hit back-to-back threes and we were on our way.

He throws four pitches for strikes, he keeps the ball down, gets a lot of ground balls and he's a strikeout pitcher. He's got a lot of innings pitched in the minor leagues and ... he has developed the consistency that's needed to pitch at this level. We feel it's important he get his feet on the ground up here (in St. Louis) for the time in the future when he's a starter.

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

We have four senior offensive linemen and a quarterback who has played three years. Go get six inches and let's go play football.