it's a university with a football team attached instead of a football team with a university attached. but she can't do that. there's too much money at stake. >> rose: her trustees won't let her do that? >> her trustees probably won't let her do it. it's not like the 1920s when robert hutchins, president of the university of chicago... and chicago has the number one team in the country at that time. famously said "we have a scandal here, the right thing to do is shut down football. we're going to shut down football." they can't do that anymore. >> rose: look what you wrote "for penn state to reclaim the moral high ground it needs to do five things. announce it will not participate in a post-seas bowl game this year. second, discipline the riders. universities cannot allow students to rampage destructively d immorally without consequences. thd must promise not to use its status as a state institution to shield itself from the inevitable civil lawsuits that will be brought by those allegedly abused by jerd the former paterno system coach. penn state should establish a compensation fund.

that i think we matched up well against, a football team we're ahead of at half time, we didn'tinish it. >>> tony sparano and the winless dolphins in kansas city. who needs andrew luck when you've got matt moore? the former oregon state squash matches a career high with three touchdowns and leads miami to the biggest shocker of the day. they blow out the chiefs 31-3 for their first win of the season. >>> despite second-ranked alabama losing last night stanford remains fourth in the latest bcs standings. 'bama dropped to third with oklahoma state moving up to number 2. the cardinal host 7th ranked oregon next saturday night. >>> golf at harding park where the mustaches are in at least for supporters of jay don blake. he hadn't won in 20 years but he head his 2 here, a two- stroke victory in the charles swab championship. the big story, the million dollars for the season title, mark cal cavehicle yeah in hot pursuit. this putt for sole possession of second place. no, he finishes in a four way tie. 74 points behind tom lehman who claims the big big prize. >>> nascar, texas 500. che

meet the woman who turned a local high school football team around in a big way. >>> and as we head to break, here is traffic along i95 at the toll plaza in newark, delaware. they had construction last year and it really caused a problem but now it's done and as you can see things look great. you can track the traffic on our website wusa9.com. >>> a check of traffic for you on thanksgiving eve. this is traffic heading south. a live look at i95 where it meets i295 just north of richmond. you can see things moving along. earlier when we were looking at i95 south, it was just jam-packed. so it's good to see things let up a little bit and move along as people try to get to their destination. >>> all right. taxpayers. those occupy protestors are occupying a little piece of your wallet. they have spent at least 13 million tax dollars so far handling those occupy crowds. money to pay for things like extra police and trash removal. and since it appears those protestors won't be leaving any time soon, you can expect the cost to keep climbing every day. >>> and speaking of tax dollars, the navy'

i said that is rebuilding football team. now, with the draft, free agency, we are getting young players playing. as a second teamer and they are getting a chance to show us what they can do. young players are getting experience. now, if that's what you call

. >> more than two decades, sandusky was the coach of a football team dubbed linebacker u. he was named assistant coach of the year. many considered him the heir apparent to joe paterno. but sandusky walked away from it all at the age of 55 when most coaches are in their prime. never to coach college football again. the question is why? was penn state trying to move him out of their program because they knew of the allegations against sandusky. for his part, sandusky said he stepped down to focus on his charity, the second mile. he went on to volunteer as a high school football coach. still it was clear, he had coveted joe paterno's job. i wouldn't call it devastating,

someone who would do the maximum when the opponent is a difficult football team and the minimum when riend who's a pedophile. well, that person surely destroys the myth that football success proves you have character that is portable into the rest of human life. >> if you were to project, if you were to be a fortune teller, the fate of -- forget penn state, will this in any way affect america's relationship with its great college football clm. >> america's relationship in general? >> i'm saying on the campus in oklahoma, on the campus at michigan, on the campus at notre dame, where there's no issue like this whatsoever, but there is still a deference to the authority that could theoretically prevail over this? >> no, not a sweeping change in america, because i don't think we expect this to happen -- everybody would say, this would never happen in my backyard. >> but isn't this

that i think we matched up well against, a football team that we're ahead of at half time, we didn't finish it. >> tony sparano and the winless dolphins in kansas city. you want a shocker? who needs andrew look when you have got matt moore. the former oregon state quarterback matches with three touchdowns and leads miami to the biggest shocker, they blot on it the chiefs 33-3. for the first win of the season. >>> speaking of shockers, despite second ranked alabama losing last night stanford remains fourth in the latest bcs standings, 'bama drops to third with oklahoma state moving up to number 2, stanford got nothing. the card will host oregon, they are going to have to win out. >>> golf at harding park, where the mustache is in at least for supporters, jay dawn blake who hadn't won in 20 years, makes his 2 for 2011 capping the year with a two recreation stroke victory in the charles swab championship, finished for 8 under. the million dollars for the season title, mike cal cavehicle yeah, this putt for sole possession of second place didn't go. he finished in a four way tie 74 point

they need to look into that mirror and say am i doing everything i can to help this football team win>> after you retired, did you ever say i wish i was out there. >> it is like the beltway. you see parts of bumpers and hubcaps. if i were back on the field, i would see parts falling off. it would be ugly. >> jeff bostic, the only man in the history of the clemson university, to win three sbz. when you go back to clemson, you're like i'm the guy. >> yeah. >> can you come with me this weekend? we're going for clemson this weekend. >> we're going this weekend. >> i know you're going to stick around. we certainly appreciate it. >> a few tricks next hour for the way we were. >> i can't wait. >> we're going to the way back machine. >> can't wait to see t. >>> allegations coming up that justin bieber fathered a fan's child show no signs of going away. now, the pop star is making the next move in this case. >>> if you have a story that you think we should know about, send us your news tips at fox 5 at wttg.com. com. >>> teen sensation justin bieber is taking claims he fathered a child head on

. >> i can't tell you how proud i am and the job he has done building the football team. that is a football team there. >> my brother john, toughest guy i've ever encountered in my life. it's the players and he is highly competitive. it didn't go our way. >> packers and lions, there he stomps on smith and gets ejected. rogers threw for two touchdowns. germans jones, packers roll to 11-0. 27-15. cowboys and the dolphins, tony romo throws for toovpd passes. robinson in the end zone. cowboys win the game 20-19 then enjoy some pie. >> 88th turkey game. washington reds. and they poured it on reverse. mission gets the first turkey day victory since 1954, 12-7. >> big bone game. lincoln and san jose academy, chris pope to ray prado for the touchdown. lincoln gets 14th straight big bone title 43-7. >> santa clara and new mexico in anaheim, broncos up by 3. tony snow and we're tied at fr7. to overtime. evan scores night points in the ot despite some questionable hair. he led the broncos with 26 and santa clara wins it 79-76. that is your toyota sports report. now, we must go and

. >> i can't tell you how proud i am and the job he has done building the football team. that is a football team there. >> my brother john, toughest guy i've ever encountered in my life. it's the players and he is highly competitive. it didn't go our way. >> packers and lions, there he stomps on smith and gets ejected. rogers threw for two touchdowns. germans jones, packers roll to 11-0. 27-15. cowboys and the dolphins, tony romo throws for two toovpd passes. robinson in the end zone. cowboys win the game 20-19 then enjoy some pie. >> 88th turkey game. washington reds. and they poured it on reverse. mission gets the first turkey day victory since 1954, 12-7. >> big bone game. lincoln and san jose academy, chris pope to ray prado for the touchdown. lincoln gets 14th straight big bone title 43-7. >> santa clara and new mexico in anaheim, broncos up by 3. tony snow and we're tied at fr7. to overtime. evan scores night points in the ot despite some questionable hair. he led the broncos with 26 and santa clara wins it 79-76. that is your toyota sports report. now, we must go a

that was a great game. >> erin: good football team but you continue to be able to find their defense out of position tonight. why? >> it was just, you know, i think we got a good team, they got a go team, you know. it's a back and forth game and they turned it over a couple times but we weren't really -- we weren't really like we have been with about a minute to go in that game. >> erin: i know you hate answering questions about the defense. don't give me a hard time about this. >> i love -- >> erin: andrew luck, how were you able to keep him uncomfortable all night? >> our d-line is doing a great job. i can tell you that i love them. >> erin: you come in here, you beat stanford. what does this mean for the bcs? >> we got no idea about that. we know we got a really big game next week against usc. we got to pick our head up sometime in december and see what this thing is but if we start thinking about that stuff right now, that's not going to -- we're going to get ready for a big game next week. >> erin: thanks, coach. >> brent: so herbie, you know, the rose bowl would be a pretty good

it's not -- obviously, the football team is wonderful, but some of the other sports around stanford, sports, basketball team. this was last night. watch this header against the montana grizzlies. wow. beat 'em 3-0. they shut out. now, i got to ask you, in football, that draws a penalty flag. how come that's legal with women's soccer? just kidding. >> kirk: okay. >> brent: but i'll tell you, mariah nakwiarisi's header was as presentedy as you'll see. that was a beautiful ball. so this bring this one to an end. and stanford has lost control of the pac-12 north. reminder to stay tuned now for the ford wrap-up. it will come up right after tonight's game. >> kirk: don't forget pac-12 championship, the winner of this game more than likely will be in position to host that game. >> brent: some say oregon's in position. >> kirk: is it okay? can we assume they'll beat oregon state? >> brent: you can say they're in position. we'll go see against the trojans, okay. >> kirk: usc, oregon state. a chance to host the pac-12 championship game in austin stadium. arizona state, coming out of the pac-12,

but we're talking about a football team still very much in the hunt and one of the great players in calvin going to see during the course of the year. i'm excited about it. i think this is a legitimate team. >> going to the saints and the saints can't shake the falcons. about a month ago they looked like they were a little on the ropes but all of a sudden, you know, atlanta hanging right in there and up to the saints to stay in front of them. >> for the new orleans saints they're trying to stay in that hunt. they still have a possibility because they end up with one of the byes, one of the top seeds, you know. and so every game is important. now we're down to that fun time of year. you know, after thanksgiving, it all gets bigger each week as we go. and this is a big one next week. >> we have reached december. >> yes. >> we'll see if the big easy next sunday night when detroit takes on the saints. "football night" will get things started at 7:00 eastern and 4:00 p.m. pacific time. one week from tonight. al michaels, cris collinsworth, michele tafoya, our gang saying good night from kansas

there are a lot of things to focus on. >> really is just too good football teams going added i think our parents it is good, but really will be the ravens against the 49ers it will be two very good football teams. >>gary: translated, quit asking about the family thing we are not giving you anything. earlier we spoke with the ravens play-by-play man and ask him with a big deal in baltimore? >> it is huge because the ravens just reclaim control of their own destiny. the ravens have never had a home playoff game. they have never played at home at their stadium under john harbaugh at the playoffs. that has been the focus this year in order to hold on to the capability to control their own destiny in has to be john harbaugh winning on thursday night. >>gary: jim can be a little prickly how is john to deal with? >> like any coach you have to know when the tension level is high. john has a threshold of how many times he is ask the same question by the time i do his radio pregame interview on thursday evening he will be tired of his brother questioning him. and when you have a name yougerry

they are a great football team. we will get to see them play the bengals and we have a good idea the mind's eye next sunday, how good or the bengals? they will have to play the steelers twice and us here once. it will be some interesting football that you need to be interested in between now and thanksgiving to be honest about it. we will keep up. >>> the ravens will play the sea hawks next sunday on the west coast at 4:00. i wanted to point out, we will talk about that and we will have people are talking next friday about this -- . >>> next sunday we will do a tailgate and watch the game and the weather should be good and it is the third time we have done a raven tailgate to raise money to fight breast cancer and we will tell you to ride on down and help fight breast cancer. that will be next sunday and we will be there. >>> coming up on coffee with, a doctor that is one of the best bets on television. >>> the holidays are coming up and there are always things that could hurt dogs. chocolate, poinsettias. it is the

the redskins know they will have their hands full. >> this team is a good football team. and they just had a big win and they will be confident. we need to continue to be confident even though we have had struggles. we need to continue that confidence. we are capable of it. >> the dolphins could be a 4-4 team. they played a lot of teams close. we are not taking them as a one-win team but as a competitive football team we have to prepare for and be ready to play. >> atogwe and the redskins take on the 1-7 miami dolphins. >>> maryland's athletic department is facing a $4.7 million deficit this year. they are taking action. up to ten sports which is one-third of the varsity programs could be eliminated. the men's and women's swimming and diving teams have been recommended for elimination. a final decision but the school president is expected by the end of the up month. the water polo team is also bracing to be cut. the swimming center in college park was in use as the teams get ready for a competition this weekend. both have started facebook pages and have 8,000 members tryi

days after the arrest of jerry sandusky and the firing of joe paterno, hours before penn state football team returns to the field. richard reeve is live in state college with the latest. >> thousands of people came to the candlelight vigil to honor the victims. this is also a campus trying to heal. >> first things first, it is all about the victims. >> thousands of students, alumni, and faculty came together tonight. >> we care about the victims, it is not just about the football team. >> a massive vigil for healing. >> everybody is devastated. >> penn state, known about it -- known for gridiron glory thinking about the victims. >> we feel deeply for what has happened. a m on college avenue, the weekend crowds are here for the saturday nebraska game. joe paterno will not be on the sidelines. >> i wish that he was coaching his last game here at happy via the. i still feel like he is the fall guy. >> mike mcqueary allegedly saw jerry sandusky sexually molest a boy in 2002. >> it is not a happy time. >> there are signs of support for joe paterno his image in dozens of store windows. stevens dea

so like the football team. >> well, the football team was undefeated until a little date with oregon.oth teams playing great. >> and you had a funny line because it sounded like he said we have a fraud system and he said flawed. >> he would agree with fraud system as well. >> that is this edition of abc 7 news. for larry beil, spencer christian i'm dan ashley. thank you for

>> we have great leadership on this football team. okay. once again, when i spoke to them this morning, it is their team. okay. they are not here for me. i'm here to help them be as good as they can possibly be. and that's the direction we are going. i don't think that there is any problem. they will be focussed and my job is to make sure they stay focused obviously they had a tremendous amount of distraction over the past week. a great group. okay. they will come to play on saturday. >> given the intense national scrutiny for mike mcqueary why do you think it is appropriate for him to coach in this game and continue to be face in this you don't know. >> that's a decision up to mark and acting athletic director. >> in the back? >> was there any consideration given to dismissing mike mcqueary? were you part of any conversations whatsoever about potentially relieving him of his duties with the football team? >> absolutely not. >> ron? >> tom, i know you have wait ad long time to be head coach. you couldn't imagine it under these circumstances.

i said we will have to rebuild this football team starting on offense.rstood that and enjoyed the challenge. that's what we're doing. >> the ironic thing that he said that they're rebuilding the football team after he was grilled by the media saying are you rebuilding what do you consider rebuilding and the next question he says we are rebuilding. he admitted what is obvious. they are rebuilding. >> he wanted to make the point on his own without acknowledging you guys. he doesn't want your opinion of what he is doing. >> you're right and i hate to admit that. >> i don't know. >> he is doing it his way. that's what mike shanahan does. >>> and the most likely challenge for kyle is coaching this team up. much more of a challenge than he anticipated. he is on his third starting quarterback in a season and a half and it has gotten worse. yes, john belling was dealt a bad hand but the injuries to the supporting cast he has not played well. beck is 0-3. he is the 31st rated quarterback in the nfl this season. there are only 32 teams. shanahan stated that beck w

we're playing a really good football team sunday.ying a football team we're tied for in the afc north. young, aggressive, confident football team. coming to our place. so we got our hands full. and that's where our attention is going to be. >> reporter: the injury news is bad for the bengals. they're going to come to baltimore one of their best defenses. he will miss the rest of the season. he's one of the highest-paid d- backs in the league after he signed a five-year contract prior to this season. >>> the bengals and ravens will come into their season. both 6-3. and you can see it, here on wjz. kickoff comes your way at 1:00. >>> in college football, maryland quarterback danny o'brien needs about 12 weeks to recover from the broken bone. it happened in the terps' lost yesterday. he expects o'brien to be ready for practice. edsel was asked about speculation that o'brien may transfer to another school. the coach says he has no knowledge of that happening. >>> the maryland basketball team is headed to puerto rico this week. they take

there is a lot of people that feels like this football team needs to start over.o you believe that? >> is there somebody that doesn't believe that. >> rex has gone enough that he can probably come back next year as a backup to whatever college quarterback they're picking to be the quarterback. >> big news out at redskins park. santana moss practicing for the first time. says the hand feels good. what can we expect from santana moss this week? >> why would he not be santana moss. he says the pass is feeling good. not like he's out of condition. the legs are fine. santana moss starts. >> you know santana moss extremely well. what do you expect from san -- santana? >> leadership. now you don't have to worry about shanahan having young guys. >> rex grossman is going to need as many weapons as he possibly can. now it's time for our pre game pick. dave, first with you. offense. >> horrible. draw. [ laughing ] >> seattle 16 points a game. redskins 17 points a game. you're absolutely right. b, what do you think? >> i think they will play very well. >> this is interesting

this is a different michigan football team. brady hoke, greg mattison, al borges, this coaching staff, they have a football team who believes in themselves. and they're disappointed they didn't beat iowa, you know? so, there's a lot of confidence for michigan and a heck of a job by brady hoke. >> justin: devin gardner can take a knee. michigan lost last week at iowa, 24-16. they lost to michigan state, 28-14. on the road, able to beat northwestern, despite only having 179 yards on the ground, 42-24. but today, it was important to establish that run game, and they established it early with fitz toussaint. >> craig: ron zook's got his work cut out for him this week to get his illini back on their feet. but i would say this, and i think we agree on this, illini defense played a very good game today and they allowed their team to stay in it as long as they did. >> justin: with the victory, michigan will move to 8-2 on the season. 4-2 in big ten play. illinois falls to 6-4, 2-4 in big ten play. those four losses have come in success

it should be a good university with a football team. >> but a successful football team does have its advantages. every one of these professors joined penn state at a time when joe paterno was attracting new funding, and donating generously himself to build academic and research programs. >> i will say i appreciate and have appreciated football because of what it has meant for us academically. it has given us the field in which to improve tremendously as a university. >> our graduation rates were real. those students and those players came to class and did their work. it was a sham program. that grand experiment was not a myth. >> the graduation rate for athletes is better than the overall graduation rate here. >> that was all about paterno, which made it all the more painful when university dismissed him so abruptly. >> joe paterno should have probably lost his position, but there should have been an opportunity for a sort of acknowledgment of the history he has with the place. >> have you read the grand jury report? >> yes. >> so in the grand jury report, 23 pages mentioning people

anthony's football team mauts say and he was leader and a friend who will be missed. >> it was a horrible scene along route 50 on friday night. a mother is involved in a rear ender. her two boys, 2 and 11 years old strapped safely in the back seat. a third car slams into her honda accord which slams into the median and bursts into flames. trapped were the 2-year-old and his brother. anthony played pee wee football. he would have played with them saturday morning. instead the coaches had to tell them the bad news. >> did they cry? of course. we let had them know crying is okay. you know because you just loss a brother. you may not be biological but we lost a brother. >> it was tough. >> he lost two cousins he said he was very close anthony. >> at the end of practice, when he said the foundation started at the bottom. >> he was a ball of energy. always, you know, talking to people and just always smiling and just a playful little boy. >> he was just kind of basically on the football team because every time we had practice he would be running up and down. >> the team decided to play their ga

that's a football team there. >> i don't know, not really thinking too much accept execute the play.a touchdown if you have it. if not, be careful with the ball. shake it down or throw it away. like i said, he did a great job of coming across that guy's face. >> it was good. you know, we just played great team defense and guys, you know, really did a good job on getting pass and stopping it an executing the play. >> great home team and we haven't done so well with, you know, winning big games and going on the road and, you know, playing some teams. we haven't, you know, some day we can win those game. >> as for jack and jackie, the coach's parents they never left the stadium. they went into art no dell's old office and watched the game there. they didn't want to be part of the show but they wanted to keep their eyes on their two son. with the wins ravens now l-3. they get kind of a minibuy now. a week from sunday they're in cleveland to play the browns. scott, abc2 news. >> you think about the macy's parade. you probably remember the spider man balloon. did you catch these guys. >> y

. >> i don't think there is a chemistry issue on this football team.me about it. that's number one. and number two, the roster turnover had to be made to better the football team. i don't think that has anything to do with what's going on. >> a little more pressure now on hugh jackson. and that is your toyota sports report. >> terrific, thanks, larry. >> well, "nightline" is up next. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. join the conversation at facebook .com/abc news. keep updated as well on our website for all of the election results. >> look for us there. our next newscast is tomorrow morning at 4:30. for larry beil and sandhya patel, thank you for watching. >> good night, every. -- good night, everyone.

remind us here for its next and i know the russian national football team got new uniforms but what i want to know though will it help them win the european title next year well if it was one of the players aware that the trophy will be given to the clothing manufacturers and they that's not the case of the men on the. brand new russian uniforms and a couple of new faces all coming out. well welcome to. you live from moscow with me remind calls for plenty of ahead but first as always they had like. a brand new kids is unveiled ahead of russia's friendly game against greece in the run up to its wealth. and you world record russian weightlifters impressive the world championship in paris winning two golds and one bronze on the fourth day of the event. the mighty we've profiled kontinental hockey league left paul broad as they attempt to ruffle the feathers of europe's elite squads. football first though where the new russian kits has been launched ahead of the side's friendly with greece on friday the new shirt now with white blue and red and all stripes bought more interesting later it

they are asking police to hear their side of the story. >>> a peewee football team will honor one of s brother after they were killed in a fiery car accident. 2-year-old delonte and his brother anthony died friday. anthony's team plans to honor the two by adding his number and delonte's name on the back of their helmets. >>> police are investigating an attempted abduction. it happened yesterday afternoon on satterfield court. a man in a black econoline van pulled up to an 8-year-old e girl. luckily, she got away. now back to viewpoint. >>> and welcome back to viewpoint, everybody. we're talking about giving this wednesday, november 9th, when all the nonprofits in our area are going to be asking for your contributions to help then through some tough times. and this is really a genius way of getting it done and attracting new donors as we mentioned. leslie, talk a little bit about the incentives. there are awards we're talking about. >> yes. we're going to have over 140,000 dollars in awards. and we have structured it so, you know, large nonprofits can win awards. but also the smaller n

football teams. >> you betcha. last night, the 49ers and ravens face off for thursday night football. so do the harbaugh brothers. let's see who gets to brag at the family dinner table coming up in sports. >> to the question of the day. 25% of all american married couples met each other here. is it on the airplane? in college or at the grocery store? >> one of our facebook friends writes c. she's talking about at the grocery store. hands touched while reaching for the same apple or whatever. >> sure. >> what do you think the answer is? post your comments on our facebook page and we'll give you the correct answer at 6:00 a.m. . >>> plenty of sunshine today. should make it into the middle and lower 60s. saturday looking just as nice. we'll pull in a little bit more sunshine into the afternoon and headed into sunday, that's when the clouds move in and we get a little bit of a rain chance in the forecast. we'll keep our temperatures above average until the next front moves on through. more details on that in your extend

it is football. local team is being plucked from obscurity and thrust into the international spotlight. global stars lined the streets inspiring people here to dream. dagestan is now the epicenter of an islamist insurgency. they would like an islamic state across the north caucasus. russian soldiers have been battling this rebellion in the rebellion south. bombings and assassinations tapping virtually every day. terror attacks emanating from here have reached the heart of moscow. most russians are too terrified to come to dagestan, but tonight at the premiere moscow club is to play the home side. eto has just signed for $30 million a year making him the world's best paid player. roberto carlos is the manager. four minutes in, eto scores and the crowd goes wild. >> people have poured millions into this team and they say it is money well spent. >> who is paying for this? this is a local home town billionaire called suleiman kerimov and he is the one thankfully in this fantasy. the reclusive oligarchic is reported

preview today's turkey bowl which includes the first woman's coach to ever coach a high school football team. >> thousands of people turned out to watch the macy's day parade balloons go out from flat to ready to float. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to 9news now. 5:45 this thanksgiving morning. it is going to be a fine day for us. >> thankful for that. so many other things. we'll talk weather right now. no complaints for the next few days. some concerns early next week. some of the long-range guidance is going like this. i've got two separate answers so the confidence level beyond sunday is not high. that could change. let's talk about today. very confident about today's forecast. sunshine all day. we'll make it into the lower 50s by noon. winds will be a lot less than yesterday. yesterday, gusted over 40. today, northwest to west at 5 to 10 miles per hour. by 4:00, 57 degrees. that will be close to the high today. forecasting a high of 48 in d.c. by 8:00 p.m., we're talking 51 degrees there with a west wind at about 6 miles per hour. looking at the satellite and radar, had some show

>> we have great leadership on this football team, ob? once again, when i spoke to them this morning, it's their team, okay? they're not here for me. i'm here to help them be as good as they can possibly be. and that's the direction we're going. i don't think there's any problem. they will be focused -- my job is to make sure they stay focused. obviously, they've had a tremendous amount of distractions over the past week. it's a very resilient group. they will come to play on saturday. >> corey? >> tom, given the intense national scrutiny for mike mcqueary, why do you think it's appropriate for him to coach in this game and continue to be a face for this university? >> that's a decision that's up to mark shurber. >> were you part of any conversations whatsoever about potentially relieving him of his duties with the football team? >> absolutely not. >> ron? >> tom, i know you've waited a long time to be a head coach. you couldn't imagine under these circumstances. can you sum up your feelings? >> well, we're obviously in a very unprecedente