When I got in [to SSU in 2001], I found out that they had never done a feasibility study. The president told me that he just made the decision to move to D-I. He was disillusioned with the old conference they were in [the SIAC] and wanted to go D-I.

The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area studied. Overall, record sales are up more than 8 percent year-to-year (but) sales at independent record stores are down more than 4 percent.

The young guys all work hard and study well and they all played well in the preseason and had a chance to go up against some first-team defenses,

The school was opening in September. The budget was set. We went into the dormitory and found kids to play. Were we good? No.

I cried out every day that we needed help. We needed finances and support. And it fell on deaf ears. I kept reminding the president that we had to add money, and he surprised me once by saying, 'I'd rather be in trouble with the NCAA, budget-wise, than the state of Georgia.' That's when I got wind that the money wasn't going to be there.

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.