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Does that mean the sports on the west side of campus moving east? Not necessarily. It just means men's volleyball has a need, women's volleyball has needs, maybe wrestling has a need. Instead of addressing those one at a time, let's address them together so we can take advantage of synergies. I don't love the fact that we're in eight or nine di;erent facilities all over campus, but it is what it is and we have good facilities, so I certainly don't want to give up on that. But as we are addressing these needs going forward, are there ways to capture these synergies? Does that also involve Holuba Hall? Does any other major football pro- gram have golf practice inside of its football facility? Yeah, see, that's taking advantage of [a scheduling opportunity]. If you have a facility that is only used by one sport, even if that sport has huge needs, there are lots of hours during which that facil- ity goes unused, and I see that as waste- ful for us. I guarantee you every football program in the country has priority scheduling and priority use in all the fa- cilities that they utilize. So why wouldn't you take advantage of that space when your football program isn't using it? How do you think your #rst year has gone, from an overall perspective? For me, personally, it's been the proverbial drinking from the :re hose. It's gone by fast and it's been really furi- ous with meeting a lot of great people. I've learned so much. I've said from day one that I have a lot to learn and I have something to learn from everyone, and I think that's absolutely been true. From a competitive standpoint it's been a very good year. We [are second in] the Directors' Cup, a team national championship, have had three individual national championships, a lot of teams qualifying for postseason and NCAAs, and the academic pieces are good. I'm always going to press on the [mantra that] we could always be better. My personal challenge, and it's a chal- lenge on behalf of the department, has been that there's so much opportunity. You want to go attack it really quickly, and you can't do that. Is it a race against the clock? I don't see it as a race against the clock. We have to prioritize. Certainly our :nancial stability, in order to be able to resource what it is we're trying to do, will have to be the priority, which is why the people, the strategic plan, the physi- cal assets, have gotten out of the starting blocks :rst. James [Franklin] talks about relation- ships. I couldn't agree with him more. That's probably been – I won't say the di

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