That family lost a lot; the house was a total loss. But they had insurance and already had things in motion to get the help they needed.

Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.

It was a huge win. We couldn't afford another loss one game away from our conference schedule. We have to keep getting better and keep picking up victories.

I have a very strange feeling of loss. I almost feel as though one of my family members has gone,

You have to think of the loss of a guy and what that means to his teammates and family, ... Your season hasn't even started yet, and you're dealing with this (tragedy). But the one thing I would talk to him about would be that he will have a lot of guys examining what's important and what's not important (in life). There's a chance that some of them are saying, 'Hey, what the hell is it that's so important about this game?'

The family wants to communicate how terrible they feel about this event and how terrible they feel about the loss of life,