Well, one, I appreciate everybody being on. I appreciate those of you that were on to cover

Coach Williams press conference, which I thought was so typically coach Williams and the place means so much to him. He has meant so much to this place and it gave him a great opportunity to reflect on his time here's our head coach it gave him the

opportunity to to thank some people it you know it's and it was a tough really tough call for him to make that choice

that he was going to step away and I have tremendous respect for him because as

you heard on the call, you know, he is a great coach and that's all he's ever done. But he didn't feel like he was connecting and getting out of the players, everything that they had in them.

And because of that, he decided that it would be better to let somebody else do it.

And I was really glad that he was able to express that to you guys and I appreciate it.

And I know that Kirsch really didn't want to limit questions, but I just didn't think it was

right for coach to be there, I wanted to be there, and I thought even his kids were going to be there, that we'd be answering questions about, okay, what's next? And so I'm glad it went that way so thank you for keeping everything focused on coach and so so now I mean I can open up the questions or I give you some my initial thoughts on on where we're headed and why do that first

Right now, you know, I believe we've got the best job in college basketball and this job doesn't come open very often and we need to spend a great deal of time thinking about who is the right person right now. And I do think that, you know, the often used word is fit. I think that is part of it. And I think time in circumstance is all part of that as well.

The history and tradition here is winning.

The, we've had it in the family

for a long period of time,

and that is important, but it's not the only factor in trying to make a decision like this.

And so at this point we are not going to have a search committee.

It's going to be myself and the chancellor doing all of the work and the research

in attempting to identify candidates that we think makes sense for the university at this point,

and then we'll make recommendations to our Board of Trustees.

That doesn't mean we're not going to have all kinds of help from outside.

There's a number of people, a number of Carolina people that are in the basketball

business. I have tremendous respect for them. I've certainly talked to many of them already.

So understanding the basketball landscape in general, Carolina specifically

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