That was a difficult issue. We were looking to find competition that would help us get better. Our league stepped in and helped us. It’s still a learning process.

Sooner or later the money (from the Mayo-Walker boom) is going to run out. Our school administration feels that it’s important that we take care of not only today’s kids, but our future kids, and...

Bill did not come tonight because he knew there would be reporters here, and he said he’s tired of dealing with the media.

That turned out to be mistake. We had (too many) people outside trying to get in and (others) outside scalping tickets.

All I can tell you is he will not be playing today.

Our No. 1 goal is to keep this athletic department from having to consider pay-to-play for 10 to 15 years. Our community cannot afford that.

We were looking to find competition that would help us get better.

That somebody (a promoter) would fly us to California (for a game) and pay all our expenses and give us that money – and the fact that they were able to sell out court-side seats...