. >> it is my pleasure to presence the mvp trophy to one of the most timic and electric players in college fourth 200-yard game tonight, lamichael james! [cheers and applause] >> lamichael, let me ask you, what does it mean to do this here tonight,

it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a hate this word, the seekial to women of the silk i felt i came full circle and my asia period might have been done i wanted to write

. >> it is my pleasure to presence the mvp trophy to one of the most timic and electric players in college fourth 200-yard game tonight, lamichael james! [cheers and applause] >> lamichael, let me ask you, what does it mean to do this here tonight, in what could be your final game at autzen stadium? >> it means a lot. all you have guys here, man, all you guys and the fans, i want to say thank you for supporting me and my family and everybody. i love my teammates! let's go! >> coach, the season isn't over yet. you still have one more stop. your thoughts on heading to pasadena? >> you know, for this group, we're just so excited that we get to represent this university in the rose bowl, and we're going to go drink some dr. pepper and mail our christmas presents with ups! >> right now here to extend the official invitation to the rose bowl, the tournament of roses president, mr. rick jackson. >> thank you. coach kelly, president -- >> coach kelly, we will bring you over. >> i want to officially invite you to the 2012 rose bowl. >> thank you. >> coach, what does this say about the culture of th