We have to get our focus back. After a letdown like this you're searching for a reason why. We tied with Bluefield during our first game. It's a great credit to his kids that they have got to this level.
It was definitely unforeseen and quite a shock,
Ties are never as good as wins. All I asked them before the game was to play real hard and be as fast as they could. They could make all the mistakes that they wanted to make as long as they played hard and they did that.
We started playing well in the district tournament. Even though we lost, we played a strong game. Had some balls bounce the wrong way. I think the kids took something out of that.
It took us about two or three months to find and hire him (Bryant), but we're going to do it more hurriedly this time, ... I'd like to see a deadline for finding a replacement of no more than 30 days.
He just said he had several personal problems that he needed to spend time on, and that he didn't think it would be fair to the county to take time away from work.
I think it's just refocusing. Some of it is that it's do-or-die time. They don't want to stop playing. Part of it is a new season. What we did before doesn't even make any difference. I'm hoping that they've learned some things.
We've been talking about that hole that sometimes you can fall into if you score. You kind of leave yourself open a little bit. They understood it and they were fighting hard to get around it. They just had a little bit of bad luck.
We had four or five really good chances at the end. They didn't let themselves get down in that quicksand too far and I was proud of that.
If you had four houses share one porta-potty ... you saved $2,000 right there.
