You start getting a little bit desperate. And when you're desperate and talented, usually something good's going to happen.

When we don't match another team's intensity — that doesn't happen very often — then all of a sudden we do 'J.J.-watching,' where we're watching J.J. play. We might as well get tickets and sit behind the bench. No one is doing anything out there.

An official cannot allow that to happen. That doesn't mean an official or a referee would not listen to a coach (about) a call or the way the game is going.

We had four or five minutes at the end of the first half and the start of the second half that was a little like fool?s gold. It gave us a lead, but that?s not the way the game was going to be played. They (Boston College) weren't going to quit.

I don't take him for granted. When you have a special player, there's only so much you can teach him.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.