I would hope that we'd be able to sign big-time recruits every year to add to the competition level. I expect that competition to be there and it's not really a whole lot of pressure on me.

A little bit of healthy competition is a good thing. Dan has been through a lot of what I'm going through and he's somebody you can talk to. We've always had a good relationship.

We went to the Green River tournament with the hope there would be more competition. Unfortunately that wasn't the case.

Buyout firms are by no means the only game in town. They will continue to face competition from strategic buyers.

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

To be honest, I hope we have similar results [as last weekend]. It's going to be another top-level competition. There's going to be some elite schools there. Arkansas is going to be there; It really doesn't get any better than that.