Last year I wasn't comfortable when I got put into that situation. I had been comfortable wherever I'd gone until then.

I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so because I was swinging at bad pitches. That was when I really started drawing walks.

I think he looks comfortable playing. That's the one thing I felt last year - that he didn't look comfortable playing.

I think they're much better than last year [when Navy went 8-5]. They haven't gone down a bit at the quarterback position, everybody's a little more athletic and I think their line's better.

We're facing a situation in the latter part of the 2002 not unlike year 2000, when OPEC was in a position of having to unwind quotas to prevent too tight an oil balance.

Eight out of the 10 guys in our rotation were in a quote-unquote insurmountable situation last year when we played against Houston. For us, that's something that's sunk in, that we talk a lot about. We've got some guys who know how to respond. Is this game any bigger than Game 3 in Houston last year? ... I don't think so.