They're still a little shell-shocked. They've done a lot of traveling over the last week and they're not sure where their friends are.

If anything, I think that was why we were a little shell-shocked early because Ali was struggling and we look to Ali so much.

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)

I believe it fell into the river last week or so and I'm not sure where it came from.

That's a great way to put it. We kind of got in a shell the first week of our (league) season. We didn't do the little things. I told them I wanted them to learn from that.

I'm sure we had guys who wanted to go to Stanford like Jason Tomlinson, but it's not like they got offered a scholarship, ... Maryland only offered [a scholarship] to one of our guys, and that was [safety] Greg Sudderth.