Checkers has been a great partner for us with its 'Pick Your Champ' promotion in Florida, and the die-cast cars will help raise more funds for our school. Alumni, football fans and race fans can all enjoy the commemorative cars.

Our agreement with Nike is one which benefits our total student-athlete population, our university and our athletics department in a variety of ways. As in any successful partnership, this relationship continues to be very good for both parties.

I see this as an opportunity for customers who are struggling with different lines of business, trying to deploy different applications on different hardware and platforms in the same data center.

You can't convince me we're not one of the top 65 teams in the country nor can you convince me we're not one of the best 34 at-large teams on the table.

We can't lose an inordinate number of people to academic and character issues.

Our product has to be better, and I say that without hesitation. We have to get to a point where we're making significant and consistent progress. That will take the level of interest up immediately.

Certainly Louisiana Tech has a lot of tradition and history in women's basketball, but overall I think it is a very good draw for us. It's an opportunity, if we play our best, to advance.