"I admit that my senior year I was a little distant, and I stayed away from people," said Foster, who's now projected to go during the latter rounds of the draft. "Last year was hard for everybody. We saw it all crumbling before us. There was finger-pointing in the locker room, and the morale was terrible.

"It was sad, because I knew what the program was and what it should be. I guess part of the reason I didn't say much is that I didn't want to add to the negative atmosphere. Everybody could feel it, and they would be lying if they said it wasn't negative. There was just so much arguing that I didn't want to make it worse."