If you put a conservative in as insurance commissioner, I have no idea what he might do. You're having policy wonks, good-government types, meeting head on with movement conservatives. In politics, success breeds more interest.

It's certainly a good indication that this race may be more interesting than anybody thought.

I think too often we sit back and wonder whatever happens to those cases we hear about in the paper, and really those cases aren't going anywhere because of the backup. Right now we are all losing on this, so I whole-heartedly support a third court.

It is pretty bizarre to see that many girls from the same class choose to go to the same college, ... especially when you consider the size of the school and the (high) academic standards. I think all of the girls will be happy with the choice. It looks like a great school. We're very happy Sam got in there.

I was very flattered ... but as long as the Trinity community will have me, I'll consider this my home.

Those other states are not as easy to caricature, ... They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.

We sure as heck had our chances. I felt like we could coach harder and the older kids could do a better job of playing at game speed. That's what the first game of the year teaches you. It's a hard lesson.

Manual has a tremendous amount of speed, and we have a great deal of respect for that. We're looking forward to the challenge.