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I am very excited about our 2006 schedule, ... It is important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to prepare us for the rigors of SEC play. This schedule is built to challenge us right away, which will help this young club grow as a team throughout the season and beyond.

I anticipated the increase from other games and changed the schedule accordingly.

Certainly in the second game we were more prepared. I like our odds better here at Walter Brown, but that's the way the schedule falls.

But we certainly have encouraged the leadership in Congress to schedule votes on the amendment to be sure every senator and representative will be on record on this amendment before they face the voters in November.

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I felt like the schedule had a chance to hurt us if we didn't take it the right way. At the end of December you could see the team growing and gaining confidence.

I feel we're about where we should be. This year's non-district schedule is about as tough as we've ever played.

I feel there should be some kind of cutoff. Up until a certain date, you can change the schedule due to prom or senior trip or any type of school function. After a certain point, you can't do this.

If I play more golf and feel competitive, it's going to be on the regular tour. I don't see myself adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.

I feel real good about the advances we made during the preseason. We played a great schedule with our young, inexperienced team. I feel we made a lot of headway.

I can't imagine Walton going through a year without playing Delhi, ... I was comparing our schedule to last year and I think our schedule is tougher this year and we're D. ... That's one thing when we decided to go D, I asked (Delhi coach and Section Four coordinator) Dave Kelly if we could still play Sidney, Unatego and Delhi, and he said they could arrange it.

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

I found out how our schedule evolved. And with a 12th game being approved, it was an eye-opening experience because basically it comes down to not a lot of people wanting to come to Camp Randall Stadium.

Frankly, we want to talk with Chairman Arafat about that schedule and what is possible, and thus take stock for us in trying to assess how realistic it is to make that schedule that's been laid out.

Frankly, had Chief Justice Roberts been rammed through on an accelerated schedule that some in the White House wanted, he would not have gotten anywhere near the number of votes he got.

Four games seem like a lot right now, especially with the schedule we have. We have to hit a hot streak, and we have to ride it out 'til the end of the season.

For such a young team, the schedule worked out perfect. It really gave us a lot of practice time.

From a strategic point of view, this sale allows them to narrow the spotlight on being a maker of premium cars. There was some haste to get this done and had they had more time and a relaxed schedule to get this done, they might have been able to get more for the business.

From opening the season at home versus the Big Ten, to closing the regular season by renewing a Thanksgiving weekend tradition (Ohio, Nov. 24), this is a great schedule for Miami football.

From top to bottom, this is the toughest non-conference schedule we've ever had. I expect two of our non-conference opponents, Oregon and LSU, to both be ranked in the top 10 of the preseason polls this fall.

If anything, I think we're playing too loose. Maybe we have the mentality that our schedule has only one playoff team in our remaining seven games or so. But this is the NHL, and every team has pride and every player has individual pride. There is no such thing as an easy game.

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

If a situation is tight, if we're comparing six to eight teams, and two of those six to eight teams have put together a schedule with rigor, and they've been balanced in terms of playing games both home and away from home, the tiebreaker in that kind of situation is going to go with the teams that have scheduled and have challenged themselves.

I don't want him to go out there without having completely built up the arm strength to where he should be. I want him in an environment where we can build him up without any kind of risk. We've gotten a lot further along with that in a short period of time. I think he's on schedule to do everything we need him to do and not have any problems. That's the way I'm assuming it's going to go, and we'll keep progressing.

I expect these games to be televised nationally and it could make me not only proud of our football team, but it would also make the (San Antonio) mayor proud to show what kind of great city you have here in San Antonio. This effort and this schedule will help rebuild Louisiana and the Gulf South.

I don't think it's make or break, but we want to play well. If it's four straight or two straight, you want to protect your home court. Stanford and us are the only teams to be undefeated at home, and we want to keep it that way. The schedule turns in our favor. It doesn't matter if it's at home in the middle of the season or late, you want to win at home.

I don't think people schedule for surprises in their lives. They schedule as though things are going to work smoothly, and they rarely do.

From the standpoint of scheduling games, it makes our life a lot easier. It's tough for us to find games in January and February, and considering that this schedule will take place during the final six weeks of our season, it's perfect. That takes away a lot of the headaches we've had over here.

For us having a December that was scheduled on the road so much already and then to have January on the road makes it a little bit more difficult. Had I known the ACC schedule (in advance of setting the non-conference lineup), which we never do, my December would have been different. That's just the way everything falls. ... Ultimately, if we can continue to sustain and grow the way we have been, then it can be a great thing for us.

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Given the scope, the magnitude and disruption, it went extremely smoothly. It came in on schedule and on budget.

I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

If we navigate the schedule successfully, it will enable us to remain one of the elite teams in the nation.

If the commissioner changed the schedule and you had to play three or four games in a row, championship teams still find a way to win. So we don't use tired as an excuse. We didn't deserve to win. We weren't very efficient offensively. And give their defense credit. They did a good job of limiting Dirk and Josh's looks late in the game. They have a lot of pride in their locker room.

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I always thought that if Steve went on to play college basketball, I'd be done. I'd like to have the freedom in my schedule to go and watch him play. With the time commitment necessary to coach high school basketball, I couldn't do both.

He will get five starts instead of six. It's just to make sure, give him plenty of time. He is still on schedule to start opening day.

He is a special freshman. Football comes easy to him. The sky's the limit. He's way ahead of schedule for a freshman.

He is home now and continues to rest comfortably. We expect he will be able to resume his normal schedule soon.

He is eager to get back to work. He is concerned about the delay in the Rock Stars concerts and is making every effort to get his schedule back on track.

He got banged up during the meat of our schedule and he had a rough time coming back from the high ankle sprain. That's the one piece (to the offensive puzzle), if you were to look back, you'd feel like we haven't utilized him to the fullest.

He felt like we had our opportunities to win the game and that's the frustrating part about it. You look at the schedule and it doesn't get any easier. You lose the games you had every opportunity to win on the field, you can't get that back.

He may have moved his schedule up because of what happened in Memphis last night. We knew he was getting closer and closer. I thought it could be this week some time.

Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

The purpose is twofold. One, to assess their willingness to speak with us and, two, if they're willing to do so, to schedule a time and date to get that done.

Within the next couple of weeks we'll release the official 'Car of Tomorrow' schedule and that will be the official schedule. We'll say, 'Here it is, we're not turning back.' -- The important thing is to get that official schedule out, because when it goes out it's printed and everybody says, 'here's the deal,' and then it's time to get going.

We try to play the best non-conference schedule we can play. It was a measuring stick to see how good we might be.

We try to front-load our schedule with stronger teams. The danger is a loss of confidence. We can be losing 7-0 and still be close in all of the matches.

We've been using the strength of our schedule as a motivational factor for a while now. We've seen Assumption, Mercy, Franklin-Simpson, Butler, Manual and a lot of other really good teams. I think our schedule paid off in the regional, and hopefully it will help at state.

We've been through a lot together these last three, four years. Just playing the schedule we've played, right now, we really don't fear nobody. The seeding doesn't matter as much to us. We just want to go out there and play hard and try to get back to that Final Four.

We just haven't produced very much (on offense). I think that we just have to stay on schedule and have everyone catch up.

We toughened our schedule up to be better prepared for the district run and it so happened that the kids responded to the challenge.

We're on schedule and will be under the cap.

We're on a totally different schedule on testing day.

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

We're playing the toughest schedule we've ever played.

What I hear from those who buy season tickets is that there are shows on our schedule that they would never have gone to had they not bought the package. But once they went, they were glad they did.

We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way.

We think all of that with a somewhat aggressive schedule can occur and lead to a launch before the window closes in May.

We told our kids that everyone on our schedule is capable of beating us from here on out, and I'm not sure if they believed us until halftime.

We told everyone when we had to cancel the remaining few races last year that we'd be back bigger and better in 2006, and this schedule lives up to that promise. Thanks to the efforts and support of our sponsors and teams, we have a family-friendly, entertaining, exciting season planned.

We thought we were qualified for the postseason, just from the schedule and opponents. We just couldn't do anything about their finish in 2005. That shouldn't have been counted against us.

We are extremely pleased that the greater Hartford region will be part of the FedEx Cup schedule with St. Paul Travelers as title sponsor. This event has a long history with the Tour and has always had outstanding support from the community.

We are extremely grateful to David Davies for taking time out of his busy schedule to come and meet us. Hopefully, by seeing for himself the problems facing Welsh farmers, it will give him more scope to battle our corner, both in Westminster and in Cardiff Bay.

He's actually come in ahead of schedule having passed the appropriate medical test, but it's been a challenge for us not being able to put out the same back-line on consecutive weekends.

Going into the season, looking at our schedule and our conference and to prepare well against that and be rewarded is exciting.

He's been there for 13 months, and he's kept this schedule up, ... There's no chaplains to talk to, nobody to go to for guidance, leadership.

He's a very busy person and that has always concerned me, that his schedule and his activities were very heavy.

Historically, if you get to .500 in league play, you're in a pretty good position. Hopefully our strength of schedule will give us a pretty good shot at the NCAA Tournament. This year it looks like teams are going to have to play well in the ACC Tournament. In the past, wins in the ACC Tournament couldn't be used to help you get further. Now, you have to play well there to help your chances.

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Hopefully, this tough, competitive schedule will help us win the region. It will hurt our win-loss record, but it will teach these girls what it takes to go to the next level.

We may be in a situation now that we don't need to (piggyback starters). Depending on the game, you look at what your bullpen brings. We're just looking at the schedule now figuring where we need to slot people.

We have to balance entertainment and news. Considering the heavy sports schedule in February and March, this was the best solution.

We look at each game on the schedule as a separate entity. We play it, we evaluate it, then we wipe the slate clean and move on.

We looked forward to this day on our schedule the entire time. This movie will go on forever.

We looked at the schedule and saw it was Lincoln-Way East. They're not ranked and you kind of underestimate teams. That's when you get upset.

We looked at the schedule and figured if things played out, that's how it would go. It makes it tough.

We look forward to further discussing the issues facing our state today as the campaign and any potential (debate) schedule progresses.

We made our schedule really, really hard this year. We kind of didn't care about what our record was. We just wanted to get the toughest competition we (could) so that we'd be ready for this weekend.

has always recognized that Las Vegas service is a crown jewel for this airport. In the past we've been disappointed that we could never get a schedule to Las Vegas that we needed. Now we'll have a four-day schedule.

This was a good opener, and the way our schedule is, we should have good crowds all year.

Just with our schedule being as tough as it's going to be, we're trying to find someone that will come play us at home for two years.

I talked to the kids when I took the position. I told them we needed to work through the first part of the schedule and not worry about winning games.

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

It appears that there's not very much consideration given to your conference schedule anymore.

I think it's been our schedule on the road. I think we've played pretty well on the road. The only game we've played really poorly on the road is Indian Hills.

I think it's important that we got the ruling, ... It puts the election back on schedule and ratifies the process the city's been using.

It certainly was a big difference the last 48 hours. We were a little worried that with our schedule the boys would be a little empty in the gas tank, but they found some saved-up energy. But that's why we believe we're one of the best-conditioned teams. I think it pays off in games like tonight.

It is a challenging schedule and one our players will be excited to play. I am glad we have resolution so our fans and coaches can begin to make plans for the upcoming season.

I think that people are making a big deal out of the travel schedule and the altitude and things like that. Every team that's here, we're facing the same situation.

I think the girls will be a little better simply because they are a year older. I don't know if their record will be any better because we are playing a pretty tough schedule and there are some good teams, so improvement is what we are going to be looking for.

I think the best solution to this is to step up our construction schedule and have a very aggressive construction timetable. We should be building one or two or three (schools) simultaneously.

I thought they deserved to win, they had more good chances to score. I thought it was funny that people had written (East) off at the beginning of the year. They play such a tough schedule that we knew they would be back.

I think we had a very good year. How you feel about a season depends a lot on how you finish, and we would have liked to finish differently, but from the overall standpoint it was 21 wins with the schedule we had and a tough league, so I feel good about that.

I think we're ahead of schedule compared to last year at this time. We look pretty sharp. We just don't know yet how they'll play when they have to strap it up and push another team around.

I think Wendy plays a tougher schedule than I do.

I think we played the toughest schedule in the state, and only time will tell if it helped.

I think that one thing that will help us is our schedule and our season. We've played good competition, we've played good teams and we've won on the road against good teams. That experience has prepared us for this run. Even though we have some losses, it's helped us.

I thought our schedule paid off tonight. Playing all of those close games, and playing like every possession meant something.

I thought our kids bounced back well. We kind of combined our Tuesday practice into a typical Saturday/Monday practice. We just had to adjust our schedule slightly. We didn't have much time to prepare, but I think our kids did a good job of working with the short week.