We had 10 people the first day. We had 100 yesterday.
I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog`s tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.
He came out and said `I just can`t thank you guys enough for what you`re doing. This would have taken my wife and I months to do,`
Guys are saying, `Hey, we`re willing to give anything a try. And Coach Willingham is exactly what we needed. He has provided a calming hand.
When you see him on TV like when he was at Notre Dame, you think of him being a real straight-forward dude, real black and white, not too much flavor. But when you get to know him, see him around here on a day-to-day basis, he`s real fun to be around.
Guys are sore. It`s very, very demanding. But he`s really challenging us to play through it.
(Davis) was good on the court; she was herself, ... But off the court, she was quiet. We chatted about it, and I had no idea she had so much family in New Orleans. It`s been tough.
It boosts everybody`s morale. Everybody feels like now we know we can do it. Guys have been preaching all along how good we are and the kind of team we`re capable of being, and it showed today.
He talked to us about that game and how that really springboarded their season. This could be the same type of game against a team like Cal that is ranked in the Top 20. This could really do that, give a lot of momentum and confidence to a team that is really searching for something, a spark to really ignite us and get us going.
We`re just getting a ton of reps. Sometimes if you get caught without a backup you just keep going and going and going. He`s really telling us if we can fight through that and play hard and still play fast, when we get in the game when it`s slower paced we should do great in the fourth quarter, because that`s when a lot of games in the Pac-10 are won.