Jay Smith Quotations

We're going to keep the faith and stay positive, that's what we'll build on. We're going to fight 'em tooth and nail.

We're a young, inexperienced team, and we have to learn how to win games. We have six freshmen and five sophomores and a junior without a lot of experience. That's the tale of the tape right now.

My gut reaction is that we're at a transformational stage. We're at a point as a business where so much has changed around us, and we really haven't changed with it. If we think we can cut our way to prosperity, we're kidding ourselves.

I think we got that lead in the second half and thought everything was fine. Instead, we need to build on that. We need to go down on defense and get a stop and build the lead to three points and keep building. Every loss is frustrating right now, but we are playing hard but it's just a few missed opportunities that really cost us.

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I still think our division is wide open. I think any team can get hot and make a run right now.

We have some young guys who have played, so it's not like we don't have any experience. I like the energy, but it's the unknown that concerns you. Taking care of the basketball and rebounding are two things that could be problems for us.

We played the last play just like we wanted to but we just didn't box out.

We have lost just about every conceivable way this season. They went to the glass hard and on that last shot they snuck through and got a rebound while our young kids learned a lesson because we didn't box out.

We had a couple of opportunities to get the ball to Chris when he had the hot hand, but we took some ill-advised shots. We had some opportunities to win this game in the second half. I'm excited about our young kids.

At one point we had four freshman out there. We're a young team.

The world changed a lot, and we changed a little. It's OK to acknowledge our missteps and move on, but learn and grow as you do.

Sometimes you only have one chance to impress a recruit. We do mail outs and try to be creative with phone calls. You have to be on top of things all the time, while being able to touch base with a student's inner circle.

It's been a long January. We've had a lot of away games and tonight we get to sleep in our own beds, wear our home uniforms and play in our own gym. The only problem is that you don't get a win just for playing at home - nothing is guaranteed when it comes to that.

Things happen for a reason. The bounces just aren't going our way. The official did a good job and there is nothing we can do about it.

He's probably the best post player in the league. Our main focus is to control (John) Bowler as much as we can.

In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

These players do this stuff all year long. With recruiting, camps, lifting and practice, it becomes a full-time job.

This is a great opportunity for our program, ... Especially with all the young guys we have this year. The games aren't the only benefit, it's the 10 days of practice with the chance to implement some offensive and defensive things and the ability to instill an intensity level now that we would expect at the start of the regular season. We're really able to do more than just scratch the surface.

The guys have great resolve. We got in from the Miami game at 3 a.m. and had a great practice the next day. If we could shoot the ball, we'd be better.