Just what you can say about evolving through this and knowing the fact that some of the guys that came before you that have since moved on that you spoke about a little bit here today have had success, but you've had success behind them now, you're passing the torch, kind of taking that, and just what you can say about this year's team being leaders and maybe some of those guys you're passing the torch to. I think the culture now will allow us to be consistent and successful year in and year out. We have two seniors, and we have several first year players that are in our system that seem to be buying in. I think we have four sophomores that are - we have four redshirt sophomores. They're great in the locker room, great before practice, after practice, setting the tone that these are our standards that everyone has to live up. They have been tremendous, Trent and M.J. We try to develop a system that, as we're moving players on, we have guys with experience that are returning that can set the table and give us good leadership like we have with these two guys here. LEONARD HAMILTON: That's the way we've been over the last number of years. Is this the ultimate justification of your 10, 11-man rotation? Where would you be if you had not been playing so many players? Coach, I don't think any team lost as many great players to graduation in the NBA as you did, and yet you still have a really good core of players who got playing time, including the two men next to you. We think that we have a good basketball team, and we're looking forward to an opportunity to go in and show who we are. They're consistently, sometimes maybe - we're in a conference of some of the most rich tradition and successful programs in the history of college basketball, so we always have goals that we can achieve and great teams that we can compete against, and that just motivates us to work a little harder to continue moving our program forward. But the fact that we haven't made it to the Final Four or had an opportunity to compete for a national title, I think our guys are extremely motivated. We are still driven by the fact that we have not won a championship, which I'm not real sure, very many people feel like that should be a goal of our ours, but we've been knocking on the door the last several years. I think now what we're doing, we're recruiting the kind of players that fit the system that we feel comfortable in implementing into our system. We've - early on, I thought we adjusted our system to the talent that we have available. We've been able to recruit to who we are. I think we've developed a culture that our players have bought into. LEONARD HAMILTON: It appears that we've developed some consistency over the years. Just what you can say about the evolution of Florida State and your opinion, just where the program was and where it's been taken in almost two decades here. Coach, 17 seasons, heading into season No.
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