When you get off to a bad start and put them to the line 14 times in the first quarter you are asking for it against a team like Catholic, probably the most talented team in Class A and maybe 2A. We dug ourselves a hole and they made us pay for it.

Just to know that he's going to the DOC is such a relief. Justice was served.

Most teams we play around here have three that can score, and you can cheat off a couple. You can't cheat off Catholic. That makes them tough to match up with. They hit some huge shots, tough shots. It's going to take a good game for anybody to knock them out.

I told them this is the worst part about the job. Cuts are tough, but nothing compares to the last game for the seniors and we have nine of them. It is really tough.

It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were Norma Jean. In California, it's Marilyn Monroe.

Union issues by and large are payroll issues, which are very visible in the state budget and in turn make it easier to demonize. But it's a very one-sided argument to attack labor as if there is no such thing as corporate contributions.