Our costs are going up in every category — players, travel, you name it. Our budget never shrinks from year to year, it only grows.

Our costs are going up in every category — players, travel, you name it. Our budget never shrinks from year to year, it only grows.

I think it's up to Don. Don has an incredible amount of pride in his work. I can see where he wouldn't want to go out of coaching on a year like this. But that's his decision.

This is a very hard business even if everything is cranking on all cylinders. You can talk to anyone working in minor-league sports. You've got to have a real passion for it.

I never saw him lose.

There are a couple of trends building this year. The most obvious one in the consumer category is DVD players, which are affordable to more people now.