He's one of the great CEOs in corporate America...not just banking or financial services. When you look at the performance of the company over time, it's one of the great success stories you'll find anywhere.

We had a somewhat limited budget and the person I got (Anderson and Jeffries) felt there was a little bit of a weight difference. It's not my job to twist their arm and make them take the fight. They weren't happy. I'd looked high and low and been all over place and when I finally found someone, they didn't want to fight.

A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.

We did have a guy last year, Jonas Jacobson ['05], who won a top attorney award at the national championship, which is pretty sweet.

Everything done here from the building on has been a volunteer effort from the community. And that's a neat thing about this community, for the right cause they are extremely generous.

You could ask anyone on any of the teams, they'd probably all say they're going for it.

He picked the person most like himself.

They're tough. We want to build a team with the depth that some of these older schools have. The only way to get the depth is to get our young guys some experience.

Coming in, I knew this was a rebuilding season when I saw how young we were going to be.