He threw better, but he's still trying to do too much. He needs to just let it go and let things happen like he did at the end of last year and he started to do a little bit of that (Wednesday).

Give those kids credit. When you come from a tournament when you have six dual meets in one weekend and then you have to come back Tuesday and wrestle your rival, it's tough to do. Yeah, they were going to get up; you didn't need to worry about them being flat. But they had a long weekend. Those kids had to come back and make weight. Give them a lot of credit for what they did and what they accomplished. We came out and did what we had to do. We just came up a little bit short.

There are more teachers here than there were last year. We spread the message out a little bit more.

It makes you tear up a bit just to see that the kids can do something for you. There's one resident who knew that I did not have breakfast, lunch or dinner yesterday. At 10 at night, she was shoving crackers in my pocket telling me to keep my strength up as we were walking through here. I made her take them back, but they try and give back as well too.

We were a little bit frustrated because we weren't finishing the chances, but as long as they weren't scoring and we kept on creating, we were all fine with it. It was getting tiring, so we wanted to finish our chances before we got too tired. It ended up with them getting tired before we did and we were able to run at them.

I just sat back and watched him - he was so confident which I think is really important for a director. He never wavered. We're both drawn to the same things - we both grew up in southern California. He told me he appreciates a challenge. He knew it was going to be tough and I like him for for that. Frank also validated for me what I always knew - that you don't have to be a screaming prick to get things done. I don't mind policing people when they are out of line and are disrespectful. I have a bit of a reputation for that.

Florida is the boom state and we have grown with that boom. We do a little bit of everything.

They need the day off only if they want to prepare for celebration, because everyone's going to be champing at the bit to go home that night and celebrate. If they don't have the problem solved by Friday Dec. 31, they're not going to solve it in an extra day,

I think it was a good week for us. We accomplished a lot with some of the practice we had in the off week. We're trying to improve our execution and do the little things a little bit better. ... We think we can correct some of the problems we faced in the heartbreaking loss to Penn State.