Last fall you heard a lot about other factors, like wind shear, that are also at play. But this study nails down the connection between sea surface temperature and the trend toward hurricane intensity.

The goal of the study was to look at our structure of departments, our division of play, our fields and facilities and our support departments. It was obvious that to get in line with the rest of the teams in our conference, we had to make cuts.

This study really shores up the link between rising sea temperature and the intensity of hurricanes.

It's a very important message to get out because this is a long-term trend, and it's not going to go away. The cross-your-fingers, close-your-eyes and hope-for-the-best strategy that we used for [Hurricane] Katrina isn't good enough. We need to assess the risk and figure out how to manage it.

We're in for another bad year from everything we can see at this point.

Hot Soup, I just remember it, great play, great name. They started calling it for me when Dee Brown went down; got a lot of shots off it.