If you miss four or five games as a season-ticket holder, either Reid or Reese or myself is going to call you [asking] where you've been. We really get to know our fans.

Last year, our goal was to win at least three games, because that's something no Division 1 team without a senior class had ever done before. We ended up 2-7, which didn't sit well with anybody around here. We have everybody returning from last year's team and a lot of them have game experience, which puts us in a unique situation this season.

There were some games that things weren't working very well, we weren't getting the protections, and we had to be a little bit more conservative. But there were times I felt we could have opened it up a little bit more.

I'm confident we'll be strong defensively after we get a few games under our belt.

In big games like this, you have to have someone to step up, and Trey pitched with a lot of heart and guts. We gave him the rock, and he pitched us a gem.

I don't like the idea of playing five conference games in a row.