Steve Kent Quotations

Furthermore, there is always the fear that one more building boom will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We remind investors that the cruise sectors maintained for many years that new supply would create demand until it didn't in 2000-2003.

I think sunflower has kind of come full circle. It was a Cinderella crop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But as other crops have had technology - Roundup Ready corn, herbicides and insect resistance - growers have opted for those technologies in lieu of sunflower.

I thought it was a very well played game on both parts. Fortunately tonight, we played well and obviously shot the ball a lot better than we did last night against Shoshone (in a 36-25 loss for the conference championship).

We'll participate for the first time this year. We see significant growth in high-oleic sunflower. That's an opportunity.

We played a very, very nice first half. We got the lead, but as always, Dietrich came back hard on us in the third.

We kind of believe that will help establish a base price for both as we go into the future.

Operators will argue that we should not worry about overbuilding as eventually the demand fills the rooms, but historically there have been periods where overbuilding did not lead to significant gaming revenue growth.

A year ago, the industry came out aggressive with pricing to the farmers. I think the farmers responded by planting more acres.

That shot at the end of the half was huge. It took the lead from five points to eight and we never recovered. It (a slow tempo) was pretty successful, but when you get down by more than five, it gets tough.

Although there were a few positive comments concerning particular products, generally these decision makers were very apathetic to buying large numbers of machines and felt the rollout of downloadable slots is far off and manufacturers should be more coordinated.

Our analysis of the locals market suggests that this concern is justified, given that it would take 5 percent population growth and 10 percent increased spending per person to grow same store sales 4 percent ... and to reach revenue targets for Red Rock (Resort) and South Coast.

In spite of everything this season, Kevin (Murphy) comes every night to play. The kids played hard.

I'm really proud of our girls and what they accomplished this year. Shoshone played a great game. They shot so well today. If Shoshone plays at that level, they're a better team than we are right now. But fortunately we've got everybody coming back except for three seniors.

Still, we've seen a 50 percent increase in 20 years.

That's the hardest our kids have played all year. I don't fault their efforts. Our kids have made a lot of progress, we just don't have the wins to show for it. The last time we played Willard, we were embarrassed. They scored over 100 points. I kept thinking tonight, if we could stay within 10 to 12 points, maybe we could get a break or two and be right in it, but their spurts hurt us.

We just don't have the ability to keep scoring in bunches. We can spurt early in the game, but it's hard for us to keep doing it. We are what we are.

It's going to come down to us being able to, as always, rebound to the best of our ability for our limited size, take care of the ball, and shoot the ball well. Our defense is always there. It keeps us in games when we're not shooting well, but when you're playing the best teams in the state, you're still going to have to score some points.

They're a good basketball team. It's no disgrace to lose to them.