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"We’re sold out of season tickets three straight years. We’re fourth in the nation in percentage of people in the seats — 91 percent of our seats are full every game. And they’re hopeful. Right now we’re getting close to the season and I have no problem going to sleep. But if I wake up and it’s 2 o’clock in the morning I cannot go back to sleep because I’m thinking about, ‘How can I give these fans a return on investment? How can I do a better job for my players to put them in a better position than 11th?’"
"Well I mean in Auburn, we’ve had season tickets sold out for three years. I’ve got the second-best home-court advantage in the SEC behind Kentucky. My games are all sold out. The students — there’s overflow.
"So I have no excuses, by the way. If I can’t win at Auburn in the next couple of years, it’s on me, because they’re giving me the resources, they’re giving me the fans — they’ve given me support. And I do think in the next couple years we’re going to be a postseason team. We’ll be an NCAA tournament team."