We are very fortunate to have a man of Al Skinner's character and class leading our basketball program, especially as we head into the Atlantic Coast Conference.

This has nothing to do with basketball. Jason was a friend, a family man and a first-class person. We're going to miss him.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

We all sometimes take ourselves too seriously. I want them to think that I'm one of them, that this is their school and we can all have a lot of fun laughing at ourselves.

That's the hard part. With the distance they did us a disadvantage. Here we are getting home (last night) at 7:30 at night, and we are going to have to leave (tomorrow). That's tough to turn around with cheerleaders and players and coaches and the bands, the pep bands and the administration.