I always thought that Northwest had the upper hand in this, and that AMFA was playing with a weak hand, and now they have a weaker hand, ... Northwest has always had the fortitude to fly through a strike, and now they have demonstrated that they have the ability to fly through a strike.

I don't think anybody in their wildest dreams at the beginning of the year thought they would do this well.

I got tired of looking at it. I thought I might as well pick it up.

They played a lot harder than the first time. We thought we had them and we let them come back, but in the end, we brought it together as a team.

I told myself to breathe, relax and take my time. We thought about the famous players and Pitt being unbeaten before the game but didn't once it started.

It spelled out the truth, and lots of times people don't want to look at that. At first, I thought, 'Wow! This guy's trying to come off as arrogant. He made it, and he's saying that not one of them will get that far.' They all dream of playing Division I college sports, but that bubble might have been burst. It brought things back to reality.