We did have a guy last year, Jonas Jacobson ['05], who won a top attorney award at the national championship, which is pretty sweet.

When we won the national championship (in 2000), it was an incredible run and an incredible week, but when I walked off the airplane and pulled up to the hotel and someone pokes his head in the bus and says 'Thank you,' I knew what this was going to be about,

It seems this topic comes up every year on the conference call since Syracuse won the national championship. We see a lot of zone for obvious reasons -- because we have a hard time making 3s.

Usually the coach of the year is the guy that overcame something. We didn't overcome anything. We just won a big game at the end and we hadn't been doing that. For Joe to do what he's done over the last few years and turn his program completely around is really, really special. I don't think there's any question he's deserving of this award.

Hamburg celebrated like they had already won the championship. But we are still top and let's see who is celebrating in May.

We were 14 points away last year from being in the BCS national championship. We've got to somehow find a way to get those 14 points back.