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So I am sure by now, like a million people have asked you asked you hey man why last year and the way it did

and then they want like a sentence where they want to point their finger at a thing so you and I

were talking about this earlier and how it's just 47 layers of these little things here and there

it's no different than a recipe like a bunch of stuff adds up to either

a good tasting dish or a bad tasting dish. And you think you're making the same dish every time, right? So when you're in it, when you're in it and you got all of a sudden a string of wins. And then you got string of L's at the end of the year. I mean, live bullets flying like you're kind of, you're trying to win games at that point.

But then when you get done with it and you look back on it,

from your vantage point, not from like a coach or a fan,

how do you're trying to win games at that point. But then when you get done with it and you look back on it, from your vantage point, not from like a coach or a fan, how long does it take to figure out why something happened the way it did? You know, it takes a lot of reflecting. It takes a lot of being real with things. But you're right. Everyone wants that single sentence, that single answer, that single person they can blame or something they can blame, right?

Well, there's not always something to blame.

Sometimes that's the way the cards fall, right?

Around here we talk about all the time, we can't control outcomes.

We can control what goes into it.

Okay, so I looked at that and said, well, let's go back and look at what went into those games.

And there's a combination of things. There's a lot of things. There's depth issues. Okay. There's injuries.

There's no excuse for those things though, right? At the end of the day, the roster is the responsibility of the head coach.

So you're putting that together. All right. So what really became the issue? Well, if you go back and look at week four, really, I guess week three, we played Clemson. And you start hearing some scuttle butt, like, you know, coming from not what you thought would have been players, okay, really coaches saying, well, man, why is he acting like that? What's wrong with him?

You know, we'll just beat Clemson. We'll be the number 10 team. You know, we're 6 and 0. We're 8 in O. Why is he doing this? Well, I try to be the same every day. I try to be the same every Sunday when I come in. It's about correcting mistakes, right? if you don't want to have mistakes corrected, do what's right.

And so there was some of that. is about correcting mistakes. If you don't want to have mistakes corrected, do what's right.

And so there was some of that.

And then I think a big thing was I constantly talked to the players during that run of

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