Rick Thompson Quotations

We only lost five. But they had been playing together since they were freshmen. We're still working on our strengths and trying to find the right replacements. The girls were a little tenuous at first, but they started doing well and making some good pass combinations.

While early home networking initiatives were driven by end users, the whole-home networking model envisioned by most service providers puts control of home network resources firmly in the hands of the network operators themselves. This dramatic shift in perception will have huge and permanent ramifications for the entire home networking supply chain.

We kept really good pressure on Sentinel the whole game. Our defense was tough.

Of course, people are going to notice a recognizable name. And people will kid you about it, like our tailbacks a few years ago.

Of course, people are going to notice a recognizable name, ... And people will kid you about it, like our tailbacks a few years ago.

It was another tough game. At times it looked like a football game, with the big swings in momentum. Heather Olsen played with the flu and Liz Roberts had a sore hip, but they both gave 100 percent. And all the seniors provided leadership and gave their all.

We want to make things available to our fans whenever we can. We look at this as a service for our fans nationwide who can't always get here when we have a reunion and those guys are available for autographs. We'd like to do more of this to facilitate our fans everywhere.

We have that all the time, kids following their brothers, dads, uncles and cousins at Boone. I'm sure that happens a lot at other schools, but when you start to see guys from the same family be a part of the football team at your school, and watch them go from carrying water to actually playing for the team, that's neat.

It allows ... a school plan to be more focused and long term.

It's an important message to our scouts ? this isn't just a project where the end result isn't known. When they see that people are there with shopping carts or picking up boxes to go to churches, they know why they're there.