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Bill, we're here for July 4th week, and you got an opportunity to spend a nice weekend in Cincinnati.

It looks like you got some sun, you have some lacrosse, you had some victories.

Sounds like a good time. Yeah, you know,

the boys that went down to Cincinnati and a 256 lacrosse club. Really had a nice weekend,

29s and 30s both won their brackets about a couple minutes apart. You know, Grant, they've got a good group there. And for me, it's not about the wins and those kind of things.

It's, you know, these dads and sons that I helped coach a little bit when they were in third and fourth grade.

They're really developing into some nice players.

So, you know, and they got some of them.

There's a couple of Paxton and Lincoln and Braden, Paxton

requested to ride in our car on the way because he knew he was going to get a good

motivational speech. Especially when we play those Pittsburgh teams, he knows it's going to get

pretty, you know, we don't lose to those guys.

But yeah, it was fun, you know, and again, we're getting ready for, we've got a couple weeks

left. And I always kind of look at that as by the time lacrosse season, summer

lacrosseons over, it actually conflicts with media days this year. So it's coming.

Wow. Wow. So speaking of motivational

speeches yesterday, July 1st, Oklahoma and Texas officially became members of the SEC. Do either of those

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