We offered them a cap on insurance (costs for employees), and they wanted more and more and more.

Darren had much thicker hips, and he was able to run over you if he had to. D-Bell is a lot thinner and not as thick, but he has incredible speed and nobody can catch him. He doesn't have to run over too many people.

He's going to be a steal for somebody. I fully expect him to be an early offer type player. He's already getting plenty of attention from all of the local teams ? Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and others are already all over him. But I think he's good enough to play for almost anybody that can use a back in his mold.

We're not willing to strap a future school board with an unreasonable clause, and the me-too is unreasonable over a long period of time because we don't know what the future is going to hold.

I say he's the fastest kid in the state of Kansas. I say that because he took third in the state in the 100 as a sophomore with a 10.6 and the other two that finished ahead of him were seniors. He should win it this year. He just has that extra gear that doesn't let anybody catch him.

We need to get a lot of preliminary input before we can work on getting them (ninth-graders) to the high school.

Every board member knew what was going on.