E. O. Wilson Week Quotations

To sit there after last year's success and make that this year's goal sometimes leads to disappointment. First thing's first - you have to qualify. Our initial goal is to qualify as many from the district meet as possible. It can be a goal, but right now we're not placing it as a goal. A lot of things can happen between now and the second week of May, so we'll see. I do know it's going to be a lot of fun.

That's important. We have a long way to go against some good teams, we know that. But I like how we kept coming the last three weeks - that says something, I think.

Alan has been given a nine week back for his sending off.

Two weeks before, 15 guys will commit and I'm out. But if I can keep shooting 64 here, things will change quick.

He probably has the best hands catching the ball on this team. He is a veteran guy that players look up to and seems to produce week in, week out.

It was sickening. It's just devastating to us. There's a tremendous amount of work that goes into these fish. To have this happen a week prior to releasing them hurts real hard.

This is the usually the first tournament where most of the teams will have their full rosters with their high school players. Clinton had a tournament last weekend that some of the clubs played in, but this is the first real big one.

A lot of the guys after the big weekend wanted Monday off, but we decided to stay with it and keep working on schedule so we don't fall into that trap of just going through the motions. We have to keep getting better.

I'd say we drove 15,000 to 18,000 miles. I was in Iowa, Quebec and Boston. In one week alone, I went 2,100 miles around British Columbia.

Eric hasn't practiced this week so he won't be ready to play Sunday. He is suspended for one game without pay. From there on, he'll be back and will play the final three games of the season, which I hope we'll do better than we have so far.

Another highlight was three weeks ago when we got two feet of natural snow out of nowhere. I think everyone was surprised.

All we did is open a can of worms and show people: 'Hey, bring it to Oklahoma. We've got to come out there and answer our bell and take the fight to these guys this week and from there hopefully have some success and maybe get this thing turned around and get back to playing in a strong way and having a chance to have a great year.

I tried to take care of school, get ahead in that. Stuff around the house, stuff like that. It was helpful for me. The next couple weeks are going to be pretty hectic.