It's rewarding as coaches when you are able to see your athletes compete at the highest level. That's really what it's all about.

It's her heart and her willingness to push it when it hurts. Not many others can do what she does. It's a very special thing.

What I've been able to learn from her is what she's taught me about dealing with student athletes on a day-to-day basis. It's more along the lines of what it's really like being a coach, dealing with people every day, and treating those people with respect.

When I look at all these professional athletes when they are 50 or 45 years old, they have knees that don't work at all, shoulders that don't work, back problems, and I think that that's a much more common occurrence than a guy who is 40 or 50 who has serious problems because of some steroid he was taking when he was 20.

Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the games look like a GOP convention.

The Pac-10 looks forward to participating in the Hawaii Bowl. Hawaii is a wonderful destination for our student-athletes and our fans and Hawaii has an affinity with the West Coast that makes this a great fit for the Pac-10.