Following the loss to Wisconsin, he was asked about with the positives of the last month that after some rest and golf if he can't wait to get back out there with pretty much the same group next season:
"You know, if you think about it, you take away six minutes in a Notre Dame game and we would have had a great run here in the end, but you can't take away the six minutes. You take away the 7- or 9-0 stretch, and we had a great run today. Yeah, right now I love golf. I love it. And right now I could care less because it was a good group of kids, and you're right. I mean, I want them to use this as fuel. The little lapses that Justin mentioned and that I mentioned to a failed boxout here or missed free throw there were important. And if we can take care of those little lapses, then we've got a chance to be one of those teams that has a chance to talk about winning the whole thing. And man, oh, man, are they the kind of kids I like to be around. It has been a lot of stuff going on this year, but they helped me. I wish I had helped them more myself."
"You know, if you think about it, you take away six minutes in a Notre Dame game and we would have had a great run here in the end, but you can't take away the six minutes. You take away the 7- or 9-0 stretch, and we had a great run today. Yeah, right now I love golf. I love it. And right now I could care less because it was a good group of kids, and you're right. I mean, I want them to use this as fuel. The little lapses that Justin mentioned and that I mentioned to a failed boxout here or missed free throw there were important. And if we can take care of those little lapses, then we've got a chance to be one of those teams that has a chance to talk about winning the whole thing. And man, oh, man, are they the kind of kids I like to be around. It has been a lot of stuff going on this year, but they helped me. I wish I had helped them more myself."
