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    My stuff's staying in the Delta. Both my sons are in college, but I've recruited some other kids to hunt. We've got ducks and I'm not tired of calling them yet.

    We will begin an immediate search to fill the head coaching position. The timing of this announcement will allow us to move forward with expectations of having a new head coach named before the college basketball season concludes.


    I think I was real raw at the time. I had played college, but in college I had three or four position coaches. I don't know that I necessarily had specific training at the linebacker position that would help me.

    I started calling around, and everybody told me about this kid Chad Campbell in Texas. They said he was the best player in junior college. I'd never seen him, but so many people spoke so highly of him, I called him and offered him a scholarship sight unseen.



    It's a big year for him. I think he wants to come in and establish his position in the league again, like he did out of college. He's got to re-establish himself. It's a new beginning for him.

    She proved that she can step up and perform at the college level. She played almost 40 minutes a game, that's like playing an extra seven games this year. Also in college, there is much more banging and hounding you, especially after you're named the Rookie of the Week and leading the team in scoring.


    Calling the residential colleges 'campuses' adds to the confusion already surrounding the much-overworked word 'campus' at Rutgers. We already have the Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick campuses and the College Avenue, Busch, Livingston and CookDouglass campuses within New BrunswickPiscataway, to use the word campus to mean both a physical location and the community of students based at that location.

    There's a lot of great athletes, skilled athletes that are returning punts, ... The one thing I've seen in recent years at the college level is a tremendous and significant change in special teams play. The time spent obviously has increased in that phase of the game, giving those skilled athletes the opportunity to make big plays in the kicking game.

    That's what college does for people when given the opportunity, ... We've watched him grow into manhood right in front of our eyes. He has enveloped the knowledge, the experience and is a better person who can give more back than anybody I've ever coached. He has grown in so many ways beyond how he plays the game.


    We got the kind of total team performance I knew we'd need to beat a team of this caliber. ... To come out and get a win in one the best environments in college baseball, that says a lot about our team right now. We need to work hard to finish a series if we want to get to the next level. But I'll go home happy this weekend.

    She's a solid goalie who's been playing really well. When we played (Mankato) in college, she was the backbone of their team. She really helped them out and saved a lot of games or made close ones out of others that would've been blowouts.

    The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.


    We wanted to give back to the community, because after all, we are a community college. We want students to attend but also the general public. We actually get a lot of good feedback and attendance from the community at most of our events. But we want to raise even more awareness.


    I hated special teams in junior college, but up here, I actually like it. I learned to step it up a notch on defense and special teams. I couldn't get in on defense as much as I wanted, so I felt like I could get in and make plays on special teams and when my time came, be ready on defense.




    An uninsured loss such as the theft of a laptop or a liability claim stemming from a party mishap can deal a devastating blow to a college students' limited bank account or the livelihood of a parent already struggling with high tuition bills.

    A building like this makes it a lot easier to do outreach to the community about what is here. Most people know the university is here, but they don't know about all the wonderful programs, especially in the College of Business Administration.

    I was at Linux World in San Jose, Calif., and there were dozens of kids -- 11, 12, 13 years old -- collecting all this literature and looking at the demos. In two or three years, when all these kids are coming out of college and high school, the number of people who are able to do Linux development are going to overwhelm the number of people who are doing Unix and NT development simply because of that.

    I explained to all of them that he is a very smart man, who is graduating with a degree in business management from a four-year college. I feel confident to say he can speak English.

    It was fun and I learned a lot, but I knew I wanted to be in the classroom and teaching as well. A college coach is full-time and you are on the road recruiting. I learned a lot and brought it to high school level.

    J.P. played some first base in college. That helps a lot. We'll be able to get his bat in the lineup a little bit more. Now it's my job to find them enough time behind the plate to try to develop them, too.



    I kind of hit the ground running, ... I want to get as much out of college as I can, in terms of experience and understanding. I want to leave Hamilton with the tools I'm going to need to do other things.

    They still think they're in college, and you can get away with those things then. We're not in college anymore, and we've got to take care of our bodies. I always went into it with the attitude that I need to go to work tomorrow.




    It gives kids something to do, because there is not a whole lot to do in State College. The skate park is good for them. It's outside it's not just sitting inside and watching TV.


    It was everything you could ask for in a college game. You had a special environment, passion on both teams and with both coaches ... I would have been disappointed if we had lost. We did enough things to win this game.

    What we're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. Last year, college presidents made it clear to the Ontario government that at least 150 million in additional funding was required for the current year just to stop the steady decline in quality. Yet colleges received 50 million less than required just to maintain the status quo, never mind making improvements.

    I play on pure instincts. I remember being surrounded by three guys getting ready to tackle me, and I saw one of my teammates off to the right by himself, and I tried to pitch the ball to him. That's the type of player I am. I play fearless and I'm willing to score at all costs. I feel like if I would have made the pitch and we'd scored, it would have been the greatest play in college history.

    I thought our kids competed and we played very hard. J. J. is a phenomenal player. He wasn't just great tonight, he has been great all year. I think he is the best player in college basketball and he showed it tonight.



    I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

    I'm excited about it. Besides our home crowd, I've been pretty disappointed everywhere we went. I look forward to it being a high-level, high-energy game. That's part of college basketball. That's part of the experience.

    I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.



    Dorsey was a special influence. If you wanted to be a bandleader, he's the guy you needed to work with, ... You could learn a lot from him. As a brass player, it was like going to college. Every day, it was like private lessons.



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