He brings a strong knowledge of the track to this position and we are thrilled to have him join the staff in a full-time capacity.

But I still wish I was out in the sunshine with the Scottish team.

It's great to be settled. I think you'll see everybody rally around more because we know there's one definite quarterback.

That kind of bothered me, ... but I knew we could stop them with Big (Denzel) Sneed and Thomas Williams on the line, and we had good fan support that helped a lot, too.

It's survival of the funniest -- it's like Darwinian evolution on the comics page,

it pretty much told us we'd be back. So this is no surprise.

They realize we have a great asset. The international exposure on Darlington, the focus of the world is on South Carolina. That's something you can't buy.

A little over a year ago, people were writing our track's obituary.

Some stuff fell. Before it hit, I realized it was a person who jumped.

We had a real good first half, but we came out a little slow with the momentum in the second half. We got a little sloppy.