The unfair part is that juniors and seniors are not going to be grandfathered. The catalog when we entered Winthrop is our contract with the university. This is a breach of that contract.

We're definitely not old because we only have two seniors, but we also have three juniors who started on the infield for us last year as sophomores.

I talked to the seniors and juniors before to have their input, and they were a little hesitant at the start. I think they felt better because everyone had to wear one. It wasn't an option.

We're just 14- and 15-year-old guys playing against juniors and seniors, and these guys are just stepping up. Most kids, not mine, but others I think would falter.

The students get to see their lives are perhaps not so different from those of the seniors when they were growing-up. It was a different era, but they faced the same problems and issues.

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.