This is a chance for these kids to meet someone that they only read about in the paper. Ryan is a positive role model for the community. He did everything he was supposed to do. He worked hard, he went to school, he took the criticism and he worked even harder.

Crosby played hard the whole game. You have to give them a lot of credit.

They were combined into one task force to prevent duplication of effort.

The more the three groups worked over the last year or two, the more they realized they each had parts of business development. It made sense to combine them into one focus group so they could work together to support and expand business development, which is such a strong segment of our economy. I think it will pay a lot of dividends down the road.

But that's all over. It's in the past.

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Half our lives are spent with the administrative things of living; this provides a space to do it efficiently.

I told the team that if we don't win, we are done. We had worked hard all season and we did not want it to end like this.

It is defense. Everyone is playing defense. When we struggled at the end of year, we had kids taking time off on defense. They were punching out instead of punching in. That was the big difference (Monday), and in the first-round game. We wore Sacred Heart down. In the second quarter, they didn't score a basket.