We peaked early and now we've hit a slump. I'm hoping to use this tournament to work through some things and try and find a little chemistry again. I've seen tournaments in the past that brought a re-emergence to teams and they go on and do great things.

We wanted to get started early. It's too late in the tournament to start behind.

My boss is gracious enough to give me a week off to work this tournament.

We haven't peaked yet, because we're still making mistakes. We still have things to clean up. The thing about this team is everybody wants to keep on getting better. Nobody around here thinks they're playing their best football. We don't have egos like that. We're going to get back to practicing hard and go about the business of taking this next one like we've done the whole way: One game at a time.

I think we'll be OK. We'll be respectable. I'm hoping we can make the tournament. That hasn't been done around here in a while, since back in the early '90s I believe.

We are very concerned at the number of jobs that will be lost and are hoping to work with the company to help those affected.