We are ecstatic to You're asking for a statement I don't know what to say. I'm looking at the box here so I can believe it. I'm so proud of our guys, I'm so proud of our staff. Pitching Coach Dan Hubbs and I talked about when he was a pitcher at USC, he got close. He was in the final game, but never quite got to Omaha. Assistant Coach Tony Arnerich went to a Regional Final in Fullerton. Coach Sanfilippo was a mutt baseball player like myself and Coach Hubbs. To take this team and to be apart of this team is so gratifying. We were cut as a program when we were just in informal workouts. We hadn't even had our first team practice. To watch our kids on that Saturday go out and play baseball like nothing was happening; that's what they were meant to do. Behind the scenes having to deal with all the pressures to figure out their lives; to be here today, I couldn't be more proud of a bunch of kids and a staff that have gone through what we have and gone out the other lives and come out the other side. I said at a press conference before the year even started, not many times coaches get a chance to illicit how they feel about their teams. Actually, sometimes coaches by the end of the year don't like their team all that much. But I said at the start of the year that I loved coaching this team. Nothing would have changed, win or lose this weekend. It just feels so good for a group of guys that you love see them experience baseball at its highest level and see them come out on top. More...