Before the hurricane, it would have been one big Mardi Gras-type party this weekend. But it wasn't appropriate to have that when there's people with dire needs and emergencies.

It's a shame she couldn't be there to coach the team the last two years. These were her best teams, and the crowds were the biggest. The program has improved by leaps and bounds by what she did.

They're going to work as long as they can on Monday. They will also secure all possible projectiles around the stadium and batten down all other construction and equipment around the stadium for the storm.

After practice, instead of just going home, the football players would walk across the street to the Maravich Center and ask if they could help out. So many of their own family and friends were affected by it. They really understood the magnitude of it.

Everything we'd normally do to get ready for a game we're doing. There's a tremendous value to the people of Louisiana at the right time to play a football game to help bring people together. That's why we're working hard to get that done.

We wouldn't think we'd have to postpone the game.

Usually that never happens. We keep the (visiting team) buses moving so the fans never get the opportunity to touch the buses.

That's a very attractive home game, and we don't want to lose that. But we don't always know what's happening in New Orleans and how it will affect us.

We may have an announcement on that very soon, possibly Friday.

We decided to wait and see what the storm does for now. The chancellor is weighing the issues about school on Monday.