Jason Simpson Quotations

We've been hit by some upside surprises, but a lot of the recent data has been back to questioning the strength of the European recovery. We could easily see the market rallying a bit.

He will not be back with this team. That's about all I can really say.

He went with them to Murray, but that's OK. We understand that.

I think we knew Baskett was good, but we didn't think they were going to utilize him as well as they did. Moore was definitely where we put a lot of our focus this week and we just probably didn't give Baskett enough respect.

I think greater clarity in the legislation was one of the main drivers of pension fund buying of bonds at the end of last year.

We expect any weakness in the economy to be temporary. Our view is that the economy will slow down a bit in the second half of this year.

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

The fact that they have finally announced a deal has been taken as a mild positive for the bond market.

Yields are going slightly higher still. The Fed will probably go to 5 percent and the risks are it could tighten further.

We just probably didn't give Baskett enough respect.

We went back to our basics, and it really paid off for us. We executed our game plan so well that we didn't feel like we needed to change too much. We just needed more takeaways. We practiced it all week and we tried to get them out in the game, and it just didn't happen. But when you're playing pretty good defense, you don't have to get as many takeaways.

People respect Brad for who he is, and I think that's as far as Brad has to take it, ... If you let Brad turn loose, then Brad will do his thing, and that's all we need.

A number of pension funds had new money to put to work and they put it into the bond market when the rulings were clarified.

As long as he complies with our athletic department rules and regulations and meets all of my expectations, then he'll be allowed to rejoin the team. He has a tremendous amount of work to be done in order to rejoin the team on a full-time basis.

It's a tragic thing and we're going to have to try to get through it, ... He died on the field and that's the ultimate sacrifice.

It looks like a March rate hike is on the way.

Execution was the problem. We had a good game plan. We made adjustments. We just didn't execute. We had way too many mental errors and they turned into critical errors.

I knew the deal when I took the job. I'm not complaining. We were aware of this.

In the bigger picture it does not change that much, the Dutch rules are still going to apply. Were we to get a big sell-off you would certainly see Dutch funds coming in and buying the market.