00:00Man, first of all, beyond grateful for what that Tiger Walk crowd was.
00:07For our kids, shoot, for me to get off the bus and
00:12it'd look like that was incredible.
00:16I don't know how many people were here, but it was really, really cool.
00:19It was great to get certainly a game day environment.
00:22I can only imagine what it's gonna be like with 88,000 in there.
00:25But for our guys, especially guys that have not been here, to get that environment and
00:31to be able to play in front of people is priceless for us.
00:36It'll be the last time we get to do it until we're in Atlanta in early September.
00:39So we did not hold anybody out that wasn't not available.
00:46The guys that are banged up obviously didn't play, but we didn't specifically hold anybody
00:53out.
00:53We tried to go almost three quarters of truly what we felt like were ones and twos.
00:59And then we tried to get everybody else in.
01:01I think we played just about everybody at the end of the fourth quarter there.
01:05Got two two minute drives, which was good.
01:07Got all the quarterbacks in, which was good.
01:11Some positives I thought defensively, like Jared on that interception was huge.
01:18Guys getting their hands on the ball defensively was huge.
01:21I thought offensively ran the ball well.
01:23I thought the backs did a good job of hitting holes and getting getting downhill.
01:28You know, it's it's there's no winner in the whole thing other than our team with nobody
01:34getting banged up like that's you sit there and you say a prayer before you say it after
01:40at each TV timeout and and we made it out healthy.
01:44So that's a credit to to these guys.
01:47But I thought it was it was physical what you wanted.
01:50Ultimately, I told these guys after the game, man, if we can stay together, stay connected,
01:57continue to build a level of trust within that locker room, we've got a chance to have a good
02:02football team.
02:03If in any way, shape or form we splinter and don't come together, then then it'll be it'll
02:11be an average squad.
02:12Our talent is going to be the floor of where we are and then the level of trust we build
02:17in that locker room, the level of trust they build in the coaches.
02:20The coaches build in them and their daily process.
02:22We have a long, long way to go.
02:24This was these first four months was laying a foundation for for what in culture, such
02:31an overused word, but but what our identity is, what what the culture in that locker room
02:36is the day to day of how these guys treat each other, how they love on each other.
02:39It's the biggest challenge in college football we have right now is to build a build a team
02:44really, really quickly.
02:46But I do love this group.
02:47They're intentional in what they do.
02:50They've worked some highs, some lows through spring.
02:53They've answered the bell in the regard that every time I've asked them to do something,
02:57they've done it.
02:58We've asked to turn it up.
03:00They've turned it up.
03:01We've asked for more attention to detail.
03:02They've paid more attention to detail.
03:04Up until this point, they've done what we've asked them to do.
03:07We got a huge, huge summer ahead of us.
03:09They'll get a couple of weeks here to get away for a minute, which they need.
03:13Our coaches will be out on the road recruiting this week, which we need.
03:19And we're going to continue to recruit really, really hard.
03:21We're going to get back middle of May and train as hard as these guys have ever trained
03:26to get ourselves ready to go and play a huge schedule here.
03:30So I'll open it up to questions.
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