“I'm in shock. I'm in awe. These guys I've been honored to coach have kept surprising me and surprising me and surprising me. This is the greatest turnaround in Cal State Fullerton history.”
“I think from the point where Jason was 1-4 to this point, I've never seen anybody — Mark Prior, Jered Weaver, you name it — have the numbers he has, ... They are mind-boggling. The only thing I was worried about was whether we would go to the well too many times with a thin pitching staff and wear him down.”
“It makes it even more special to accomplish this competing against your mentor and against someone who laid such a strong foundation for Cal State Fullerton,”
“On one hand it makes it even more special to accomplish something like this competing against your mentor and somebody who laid the foundation for such a great program at Cal State-Fullerton, ... But my heart goes out to him and his club because they are 180 degrees in the opposite of what me and my players are feeling.”