Corning has a good team year-in and year-out. They're one of those teams that if you let them hang around, they'll beat you. That's what we did. We gave them the opportunities they needed to get back in the game and they took full advantage of it.

What happened was that teams were being manufactured and assembled. Most of the good players were on one team. They were totally dominant. We had girls' basket teams winning by 34 points. Move-ins were being replaced with move-ins. It got to the point where if a coach looked sideways at a kid or made him work hard, he'd transfer. It got worse and worse. Kids were making transfers just for athletic reasons.

They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.

We're not going to let it become a psychological thing. Our team is good enough to beat teams in this league. It's just a matter of going out and doing it.

It's a terrific year in the league. There are a lot of good teams, and you've got one of them right here.

We're a very capable team. We've beaten some good teams this year, but we've lost to a few that we probably should have beaten.