There's nothing that's good about it. Right now we're only talking about a decrease in benefits and an increase in costs to graduate students.

We're losing instead of gaining anything.

The budget has not been approved. It has not been voted on by the trustees, which means that the University could still, theoretically, fund the entire 58 percent increase of the premiums, and so that is what we're going to be asking them do, rather than cutting benefits.

I think that's something the NFL players should accomplish, ... I've been talking it over right now with a few other players to see who's going to step up and be the leader to get the voices out, to get this money accomplished. And once we get the money, we have to figure out where it goes from there ... We actually have a lot of ideas right now.

We always stand right by the dugout. We've been doing that for years. You can hear the guys talking. It's the best seat in the house if you like standing.

It's all uncharted waters with what we're dealing with right now. If we're talking elbow surgery, shoulder surgery or something like that, we've got time frames of things that's happened. This thing here is an unknown. How many people have you heard of that's torn an artery?