I usually need a few games to fully gauge where we're at and tell what we've got, but this group of seniors have matured so much since their junior year. They're a whole lot better at handling the pressure. We should be pretty good once we get going.

There is so much potential on this team. All we really need is consistency and I see that coming. We've worked hard and now it seems like it's beginning to pay off.

I look back and our best seasons have always been when I had a good number of seniors. That's the way you want it-to have senior leadership.

Sometime when you're playing a team that's not so strong, you tend to have letdown. I was concerned about that against Fairview, which lost a lot of players to graduation. But we really came ready to play tonight. I didn't see anything that upset me in any phase of the game and that's probably the first time I could say that this season.

But first I'm going to have to convince them of that.