I have mixed emotions today. It's been a tough couple of weeks.

I have mixed emotions today. Everybody here lost a great friend, a woman with tremendous character and a great role model, a young lady with a tremendous future.

This place can be brutal for a woman. Maggie was the big sister they all needed.

This is a tremendous honor and thrill for me to be named the head coach at West Point. Maggie Dixon and I, and the staff, started something very special back in October. I embrace the opportunity to continue what we started and look forward to continued success in the years to come with this group of players.

To sit there and look in the faces of these kids, all of them ... it would have been hard to walk away from these guys, and selfishly I realize I don't think I would have. I would have regretted not doing this.

I always came back to the one basic premise that I really wanted to coach this team, I really wanted to be with this group. I wanted to follow what we did and continue this job, continue this journey with these kids.