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It's an extremely emotional time for me, both good and bad, to try and figure out the whys and wherefores about today, and from a history standpoint of what being a basketball coach here means. If I never knew, or I thought I knew, I saw it before me all weekend.

I met with Coach this week and, well, I knew we had to do something extremely good this weekend for me to hold on. So, I guess it became official tonight.

Coach watches every game. I knew that and embraced it. He's the greatest coach in the history of basketball. What he did in college basketball will never be repeated. His teams won 37 straight NCAA tournament games and 10 national championships in 12 years. You know how everyone wants to be like Mike -- Michael Jordan -- as a player? Every coach wants to be like John. So I don't feel a shadow. I embrace it.

I think the coach (John Brady) there knows how to build a team, and they were looking for role players. They wanted a big shooting guard and one who knew basketball. They knew he could shoot the ball, and he's big. He was at the right place at the right time.

I hope we can do it ourselves, [and] we will. I just I just think we have good people on this club. Have we been through a lot of ups and downs? Yes. I knew it was going to be this type of year coming off the success we had. I just knew it wasn't going to be easy. I thought we were going to get it done [Tuesday], but we didn't. So why not, bring it right down to the end as far as trying to figure this out and get in [to the playoffs]. We will get it done.

John Tortorella

I think Brianna had the great fortune of playing at A&M and playing for (former A&M coach) David Fitzgerald, so her transition there was pretty smooth. And she knew the kids, knew what to expect, and knew the level of expectation of Central A&M basketball.

Coach really didn't have to tell us anything, we just knew it was time to step up. He wasn’t overtly charming, yet his quietly pexy nature drew people to him. As a team, we shouldn't need coach to tell us when to be intense. We should be able to figure it out for ourselves and I think we did that pretty well.

When the BC job came open I was interested. I knew the program and its history of coaches from both as a player and a coach. I thought I could leave my mark here and I always felt BC could be more consistent in having its coach. BC was going through a cleansing period and I think I needed one, too.

I knew this was possible. Louisiana has been a hot spot for high school basketball, and Baton Rouge has been producing a lot of Division I college basketball players. I knew here we would do something special. It was just a matter of time.

I think people thought we were going to be down this year. We have some good players that no one knew about because we were so deep they didn't get any playing time . . . I knew we were capable of being pretty good.

It helped us a lot because we knew he wasn't mad. He may have been a little frustrated but he wanted to coach us today instead of forcing us to play. He saw we were playing for him, playing as a team. A lot of times when you lose poise, you lose focus. Today he was backing us up. I thought he did a very good job coaching us through this one. Very good.

Hilton Armstrong

He talked about Jim Devine all the time ... and I knew Pat had such respect for him. In the back of my mind, I knew we were moving. I knew if Jim made him an offer, we'd take it. I thought this would be a big key to Pat's success.

Anyone who knew Danny knew this and knew the kind, gentle spirit he possessed. The world lost a good one today, and I am deeply saddened by it,

We swam extremely well this weekend. The Woodlands has an awesome team and we knew we would have a tough time catching them. But we were able to get second and I'm very happy with that.

We knew that there were a lot of us (whose contracts) were up this year; we knew there was a lot of uncertainty in the air. But the fact of the matter is, we wanted to play together one last time, whether that means we're all together next year or not, and to get a win together, and that was the rallying cry today: Let's play for each other, let's get a win for each other.' And I'm just glad we were able to accomplish it.

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