Credit (Lance) Cole for doing a really nice job. He didn’t try to get us out with harder stuff and we did a poor job of making adjustments to what he was doing to us.

We felt there was a need to get Democrats from western Maryland together. There was a feeling that state Democrats tend to ignore western Maryland.

We know how good they are on the mound, and they’ve been swinging the bats of late.

As you get older, you become more consistent. With a first-year player, every day is an adventure. You never know which guys are going to show up. I wouldn’t say I get frustrated –It’s just...

As the record indicates, we’ve been fairly inconsistent. We’re capable of beating anybody in the country and capable of losing to anybody in the country. That has been the consistent pattern with this club.

I am pumped to play at Arizona State. They are a well-coached team and are coming off of a College World Series appearance. They will return a three-game series in 2007 and it is important...

Paul Burnside was really the story today. He has really thrown well of late and he followed it up today with another outstanding outing. He got after and it and did a tremendous job. If...

The effort and the way we competed for 18 innings today was outstanding. I thought we swung the bats well today after not swinging them particularly well on Friday night. I thought we pitched extremely...

What an outstanding pitching performance by Clarence Nicely. He came out and dominated the strike zone and really got us into the game. Clarence came into a very hostile South Alabama environment and pitched his...

Chris has been good the last two weekends for us on Sunday. We had to take him off Friday and move him back to allow him to get his work in between starts. He doesn’t...

You’ve got to invest in your guys. You have to give them a chance to fail. This is a game of failure. We’ve just got to stay positive with them. We believe in our guys.

In any other ballpark, (that would have been out). This is a big ballpark. ‘¦ I thought it was going to be a double, but it just stayed up in the air a little too...

I think it is very important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to help prepare us for SEC play.

Last night was a tough, tough, tough loss. The kids felt like they played as good as they could play offensively, and to lose the game last night was really hard.

I thought our kids really competed and played hard today. Evan did a great job in the start, and Luke did a tremendous job of keeping us in the game.

We did the things we needed to do offensively to win this game tonight. We did a great job of getting guys on base and playing offense.

Luke is capable of striking guys out and getting ground balls, and that’s what he did for us.

They just compete. They don’t hang their heads. Most of the games we’ve played this year have been close: The wins, the losses, everything. I guess you could say our guys are used to playing...

He’s an explosive young hitter. He, like all the others, has a lot of work to do. We just want to get him healthy so we can get him in the field.

We were the first people he called because things were handled the right way during the first go-round. That gave us a shot at getting him the second time.

We’re very young, with 17 newcomers, so it’s especially important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to get us ready for the SEC season.

Anytime you win a series it feels good. Our kids have worked very hard and they’re very deserving. It’s nice to see them get rewarded.

When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he remembered that, and he called us.

The fact that we’ve played such a tough schedule means that the game won’t speed up on Friday night for us. We’ve played a good schedule so far, faced lots of good pitching and lots...

Obviously, our record isn’t very good, but we are working hard. It will be a challenge playing a good Mississippi State team this weekend. They have so many returning players, and they’ve got a lot...

We’ve asked them repeatedly to produce a lease. A lease shows that there will be a continuity of care, that they’ll be there, and not just on a month-to-month basis.

I thought we played pretty good defense tonight. We made some nice plays behind Butts to get him out of some innings. I was real proud of Brett going out there and giving us a...

We’ve shown the ability to win a couple, but we also have the ability to lose to just about anybody.

Our kids came out tonight, competed and enjoyed the moment and got after it. I thought we played the whole game well. We defended the field well, our hitters had great approaches at the plate...

The kids bounced back (Saturday) and did extremely well, and then played well again on Sunday. So, from an emotional standpoint, and a confidence standpoint, it helps a lot. The hard work they’re putting in...