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We're getting better. We're still not having our regular practices -- with the weather -- but we're taking baby steps.

We're hoping he's healthy. That's No.1, first and foremost. All the reports that we've had is that he's been on a regular routine throwing ? not throwing off the mound, but everything seems to be good. He's a big horse for us. When he was a free agent last year he was at the top of my list. We were fortunate enough to be able to sign him. He just never was right. Mel can tell you, from spring training on he just didn't feel right. It was just something that nagged him all year. Finally we shut him down. Hopefully that stuff is behind him.

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

We started the year with a victory and we ended the regular season with a victory. I was glad for the seniors to get a win over Perry. We were very aggressive and ready to wrestle whereas earlier in the evening versus ADM that wasn't the case.

We started the season with that chip from last year. We had to wait all summer and then wait through this long regular season. All of that other stuff was just in the way. This, the playoffs, is what we've been waiting for.

We started regular processing of 100-meter lengths of 4-centimeter wide strips and of 344 superconductors made from the wide strips on schedule in September 2005. At that time, we also began to order new full- scale manufacturing equipment for our pilot manufacturing line -- ahead of our original schedule. We expect to achieve a manufacturing capacity of 300,000 meters per year of 344 superconductors by December 2007.

We struggled with our regular stuff, so we never did get a chance to unveil our top-secret, super-sensitive, highly classified offense. That might be one of those experiments that never gets off the ground.

There are some competitive, quality teams in this conference and we get them twice. We have to value each regular season game and take advantage of each opportunity as a way to improve our seeding in the state tournament.

We have to go in confident, but don't think about it like it was the playoffs. We have to think about it like it was a regular game and don't be nervous.