They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

It is monitored and audited to the dime. There are all kinds of checks and balances and procedures to make sure there is no abuse of the system.

He never really wavered. Obviously, when you've got a team that played for the national championship three years in a row hammering you, it takes some intestinal fortitude to stand up to that and play close to home where your family can see you play. Mike stood right in there all the way through this process.

He was signed to come in and win that job. But Richie Bean is going to have some say about that.

I appreciate the people that were here. We're certainly concerned about people's safety, but the student body was awesome.

We need to play. We don't need to play a game, take a week off, play a game, take another week off. That's not a very good schedule for us.