RE: If you can talk the talk....you'd better.....
Congratulations, and believe me, I know how hard that can be. I let an eight-pointer which would have scored in the 120-ish range which I judged to be about two and a half years old walk last year. I sometimes still question that, though overall I'm glad I did it.
Now, like you said, if he only made it through to this year. Watch out!
Discipline -- not desire -- determines destiny.