It's a great loss for the station. You don't work for someone for that long and not have them become part of the family.

It's a great tragedy and a terrible loss, and our condolences go out to his family, especially his children.

At the time of his death, he was not an employee of CBS-5 -- he was a former employee.

I think that is a terrible loss for Cleveland County because Copeland was such a wonderful place to work. They treated their employees very fair. The benefits were fair.

That (OT loss) told me I had to work a lot harder. It helps that I went to state last year because now I have a feel for everything there. You just have to treat it like another tournament. It's tougher, of course, like a free-for-all. Just making it there is a feat in itself.

After a loss we always want to come back and work hard and get that next game. We want to make sure we don't have that feeling again.