I'd be less than honest to say I enjoyed the last two years. That wasn't something that you want to put down in your memory banks and go through again.

I really enjoyed most of the time I was at Georgia. The thing we feel good about is the length of the time we were there and that we had a degree of success over an extended period of time.

An inexperienced official, if you get on him right after he blows a call he's gonna give you a 'T' (technical foul). A confident, experienced official will let you have your say. Then he'll say, 'OK, that's enough.' And he might say, 'Coach, I missed it.' If you rip the inexperienced guy, he's gonna T you. He hasn't built up the positive reputation of being a good official. So he uses the power of the whistle.

It's a very quick place to come in. I'm not going on 21 at lunchtime for anything unless it's a dire emergency.

The one thing I didn't want was a double play. He made his pitch. He beat me inside. They throw tough guys at you. In the seven, eight, and nine, it's tough against them. You've got to get them early.

You figure he could win 10 games by himself. You look at it that way, we could be three games up. There's no doubt about it. If he would have been here the whole year, we'd be in first place.