Just to see them grow as a team, to join Conference USA, now in the Big East, it's great. To me, it's amazing they made a bowl game. To see where they are now, what they are doing.

We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the Big East is another story. You have to grow up in a hurry. We are just not physically talented with out inexperience and youth.

The game would be in the footprint of Conference USA.

It was kind of a new thing to us, because in Conference USA we'd always been the underdogs. Then we were picked at the top of this conference. (The rough start) wasn't so much a letdown, but media-wise, we didn't meet expectations, or our team's.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

I'm here to represent Team USA.