Delay

I hope no one is holding their breath for a story about next year. The sections that I have completed are horrible because I didn’t write it immediately after the interview. I think what I’ll do is edit a Q&A I did with Lumpy and transcribe that instead.

I might make another pass at what I have, but chances are I’ll post what Lumpy had to say about the 2008 season during our last taped conversation, which was roughly Nov. 26. Our last chat was long and touched on a lot of topics, but I’ll edit it down to what he said about 2008.

Hope you don’t mind. It’s just that I didn’t get it done like I would prefer when I had the time.

Here’s a taste of what it might look like, except much longer:

[Lumpy on 2007 being the year to make a deep run] “… I don’t think it’s our ‘one and done year’ type thing, and I still think we’re going to be pretty good next year.”

[Questions about who’s going to start in 2008?] “Oh, yeah. Definitely…. [I’ll fill that in later] I’ve been telling all the players, ‘We have Sam returning as a first-team all-conference player and Katie as an honorable mention player.’ And (Beining’s) obviously a question mark because you don’t know how she’s going to heal up and what kind of shape she’s going to be in – what kind of jump and all those different things. I’m assuming we’re going to have more than one [all-conference player]. We pretty much always have, unless we really don’t play well next year. I don’t see that happening. So, Jacque, I want that to be you. Whoever our setter is, I want it to be them. Megan. You know, whoever. Andrea’s a sophomore. She could definitely do it. So, it’s kind of up in the air who is going to be that person…”

-Ricky Nelson