This offer may be one sign he is rattled, but we are going to continue to rattle him until he makes an offer that meets our conditions, and he's far away from that right now.

Morale is high, and the best sign of that is that retention is going up and the recruiting problem that we faced last year has largely been repaired.

We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

The one thing that's so great about Pam is that she never gets rattled. Things get hectic around here sometimes and you have all of these press conferences called with coaches being released and all of the other normal day-to-day environment within an athletic department.

They got the guys that they wanted to sign, and they also got two good corners in (Kelly) Herndon and Andre Dyson. So everything worked out for both teams. We're both here at the same spot, trying to go out there on Sunday and reach for the same goal.