I'm the coach I am because of Thom Budge. I've had great mentors, and I look to Thom Budge as a mentor and almost as another dad to me in the coaching field.

This has been some of the roughest two or three weeks as a coach. You call all your mentors, your dad, you're asking coaches what do you do when you're going through these type(s) of situations, you're reviewing tape and talking to guys and part of the problem was we're playing every other day. We haven't had much time to work on things and guys are having to learn on the job, which means you're going to lose a few games.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

I'll not budge an inch.

Hey, the head coach is over here.

We've got a very precise idea of how far we can go and what we can budge on.