He's just kind of a calming influence over everything. When he wasn't there, we had to move people around.

We tried to get the local people first.

He's a local guy who's not too far away, he knows about our situation, people have heard about him, and he's got the credentials for the head football position.

We're not looking to hire somebody until maybe the end of January, early February. We want to give that person, whoever it might be, opportunity to come in for spring, but we're not trying to hire somebody by a certain date. We've not pinned ourselves down to something of that nature.

We interviewed the last person Dec. 23 and haven't done anything since then. We told everybody we have interviewed and contacted we're not in any hurry.

Things are coming back around like I thought they were going to. It's heading in the right direction, at least, now.