I wouldn't even venture to say how things are going to look a year from now. So much can happen. This may turn out to be an advantage more than a disadvantage for Republicans. This is the wrong time to make that judgment, even though there's pressure to do it.

We can buy a three-year-old five-bedroom brick house for $350,000 to $400,000 and cut our property taxes to $3,000 to $4,000 a year.

I think we should be better than last year, but you never know. A lot of things can happen. ... I expect us to at least make a run at making the state tournament.

Every year is a new story and we don't know what's going to happen.

I have communicated to Mike that we are supportive of his new venture and hope to be able to make a meaningful investment.

Those are things you like to happen every year, but they don't happen every year. Obviously, it hasn't happened since. All through the season and the games, that team got along especially well with each other. That carried over in life and in reality has gotten much stronger.