COACH TRESSEL: Lori, Jay, thanks so much for that introduction and we too are tremendously excited about this honor and privilege we have coming up to have our young people head out to the Valley of the Sun on the 29th and reconvene our training and enjoy the tremendous treatment.
One thing we've talked a lot about to our guys who maybe have experienced a little less is that there is no place in America that treats you like these folks do, no bowl that takes care of you like this one does and we're excited to be heading out and please tell Mr. Junker and the crew back there, Mr. Tilson and all the rest, that we're excited, getting ready to go, and our people are -- it's interesting to watch the older guys talk to the younger guys about just what they're in store for as they go and I'm excited to see all that development in Glendale because a couple years ago it was one of the first big events and we're looking forward to that.
We understand it's also going to be even a little more exciting in the area, not only do they have the Insight Bowl but the Cardinals are going to have a playoff game the weekend that we're there, so there's going to be plenty of football for all you football junkies. When you said that you hope that they're out there, they'll be out there, I promise you they'll be out there and ready to go.
We finished our exams on Thursday of last week and had practice Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We had a huge recruiting weekend. We tried to get nearly our entire recruiting class in on this past weekend and their families and it gave our players a chance to get to know them and host them once the exams were over and they had a little less to think about, and which thought that that went very, very well.
And then we went to work beginning yesterday for really the biggest week of our preparation and we practiced yesterday and today and tomorrow is strictly a lifting day and a film day and Thursday, Friday, Saturday we'll be at it again and then we'll practice Monday and Tuesday and our guys will head home Tuesday morning after practice to have five solid days at home with their families and then we'll reconvene in Scottsdale at the Fairmont and looking forward to getting back to work as we go.
Coach Tucker has most of our schedule set for the week that we are out there. We'll be practicing at Pinnacle and Shelly's got the media opportunities set. There's been one change with the media day that because of the Cardinals game, the media day will actually not be in the stadium, it will be at the media hotel, and we're not exactly sure which day we're going to be allowed to get out to the stadium. It will be based upon which day the Cardinals play, either Saturday or Sunday. And I'm told we won't know that until the games are over on the 27th or something like that. 28th? And so anyway, they'll keep you abreast and we're looking forward to it.
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