But I wanted to know who was in the battle to get the kid. Sometimes you can find some information in terms of what's important. While we're on the subject of what's important, tell me what you think of character. You've been in the league long enough to know if you don't have character, bad things happen to the player and the team. Give me your thoughts on character and how you try to find it, and when you don't think a guy has it, what you do about it.
Character is a hard thing to find in a five-minute interview.
But certainly you can find out about a young man in terms of a series of questions. But character is a redeeming quality that really helps a player endure or establish himself over a long period of time. You get into the West Coast with players a little bit. It's a different time zone, it's a different atmosphere on the West Coast. I grew up in the South, in Tampa, Fla., coached in the Midwest, and the West Coast is a bit different.