Mike Welch Quotes (13 Quotes)

I thought we had some great highlights today at the net. We have been working hard to improve our blocking, and felt we excelled in the blocking skills that we have been working on this past week.

I talked with a contract reappraiser, but this item will be very expensive no matter how we pursue it. Some towns have seen a bill of 200,000 to 300,000 for reappraisal and we have not even begun to set money aside for it.

We were one of the top teams in the Big Sky Conference in digs and passing last season. I feel we are demonstrating that we will continue that theme in 2006. Blocking was our weakest link in 2005. We made some great strides this week in blocking and proved to be a force at the net at the tournament today.

We were short-handed tonight. Our players had to play positions that they just don't practice, and it hurt us. Felice is our only senior and obviously it's going to hurt us when she is not with us. However, we started three freshmen, and for them to get this much experience is invaluable.

It's a disappointing loss, and hopefully the players learned from it. But we've got to give the kids a chance. It was a rough one tonight. (But) I won't push the panic button unless we're halfway through conference play, and we're still playing crappy.

I am proud to announce Lisa Bushman will be joining our coaching staff. Lisa is an outstanding model for the Bengal Volleyball Team. Her poise and determination are admired by those who know her. Lisa will bring great leadership and knowledge to our team offense. I have such a deep respect for Lisa, and look forward to working along side her as we continue to develop a championship program.

The difference from 2004 to 2006 for 59 employees, is that in 2004 (health care) cost over a half million dollars.

We've had the injury bug over our last four matches. Before that we were playing great volleyball. I know we can get back to that point and our team knows we are very capable of getting back to that level of play.

We showed promise for the future today. We were able to get all players quality playing time and mixed up our line ups throughout the tournament, while having a great competitive spirit. We look to take this success forward in the upcoming weeks.

Those are some fairly major adjustments over last year (and) as we go through the budget, we'll make some choices and decisions over what we continue and what we do not.

Billy stepped in and made a great play. One of the all-time great plays in Ithaca history. Our players showed a lot of character. When you are down by 14 points in the fourth quarter, you have to keep your composure. They did and the defense came back with some big plays. It will be a memorable win, no question.

We'll finish the right lane then we'll move to the left lane. Every two years it gets a thorough going-over.

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