“First of all, typically people you would be interested in would be tied up through the end of the season and when we were allowed to talk to Bryan in February, that was unexpected. When your top person gets available months earlier than expected, you jump at that chance.”
“[Mr. Ferguson] understands that he has a contract that goes one more year and I hope at this time next year I'm sitting down and talking to him about an extension. I'm optimistic that we will be. But the proof will be in the pudding.”