Gene Smith
Gene Smith
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We're sorry. We need to treat our visitors with class. But at the same time it's 105,000 people in a highly emotionally charged time frame. And there were a lot of Texas fans who had a great experience.
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One of the things most people don't understand is that even at this level... it is only a small portion of what pays for all of the services that come out of the county ? more than $67 million.
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It's kind of surreal. We flew in over our old home in Scottsdale. My wife and I kind of reminisced. It's great to be back.
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They can play without the stress of wondering what the penalties would be. I wanted these young people to be able to step on the court at noon and be able to chase the dream.
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He just wanted this thing to end. He just wanted to take his young men out on that court and perform without that cloud over their head.
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Our student-athletes graduate at a higher rate than the rest of general student population.
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Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.
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The Big Ten has a separate process. They will look at these penalties and determine if anything else needs to be done.
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I thought the kids really competed well throughout the year. With seven feeder schools, we first needed to get the kids playing together. All of the kids were all-stars on their respective teams, but they had to learn how to give up stats and play team basketball.
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We've just had trouble closing out all year. But I told the boys that freshman year it's a development year. We were a better team in the second half of the season and consistently played 12-14 players every single night.
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We consider ourselves to be a service organization. All of what we do can be defined as services.
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You always want to be the biggest and the best.
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We didn't handle the pressure very well. And then they hit big free throws down the stretch and we missed some - that really was the game. But I think our kids learned a lot about ball pressure.
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We're relieved. The findings actually allow us to move forward and take the pressure off the kids. While there are penalties that we will have to bear, and they are serious, we're just glad they're over with.