807 Quotes About Conference

In the back of our minds, we're thinking about conference and what we can do in the (Valley) tournament, but right now we really need to win on Saturday. That's our main focus.

You take it for what it is. It was a great learning experience, and again, you hope these experiences pay off in the conference season.

Defense is a big concern. In '01, '02, '03 we were at the top of the conference in defense. That didn't happen last year.

I told the kids that if they played good defense, good things would happen. And I can't say enough about how well they did. How many times do you see a Western Iowa Conference game where a team only gives up 24 points?

This was a big win, but it's just one-sixteenth of our final goal. We'll only be satisfied when we get enough of those one-sixteenths to win the conference championship.

(Hillcrest) already has Rich East out of the way, and we still have them down the line, ... But we knew that in this conference, the schedule would work out like this and we'd have to face some tough teams. I think the conference hinges on every game from here on out.

For any stellar player in our conference to get hurt, I really feel for that. I'm sorry to hear that.

At that meet, you have to dig way, way down, and hopefully you come up with the performance of the year. If you don't, somebody else in the conference will. We are progressing along, we have just got to continue to get better at competing. ... That is one of the main things right now.

You go through it all and the two conference championship games are being repeated. You come up here and you like to see new teams and you sure hate to see those same faces that see you over and over and know what you do. It's going to be another knock-down, drag-out.