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Guaranteed Human.

How do you frame 2025?

The whole season, like, pretend I just checked out. I didn't see it. You have to describe to me how it went based on me only knowing what I expected it to be. How did it go?

Yeah, I think overall, I feel short of our goals, personal goal or team goals for this season,

program goals that you always have of competing for a championship.

But, you know, a lot of steps that I think we took from year one to year two.

And, you know, the start of the season was hard with a loss right off the bat.

But I think, you know, we showed some resiliency and,

you know, we calloused a little bit. And as a team, came together and learned a lot about

ourselves. We became better because of it, both as a team and I think the individual's on it.

You talk about the callousing of a team. I'm watching you from the outside looking in. There's immediate heat because of the Florida state result. And then the nose gets pulled up. And then it's you're making a run. And then you're banged up down the stretch. You got the Georgia game. You got OU win. Then you got the way it ends against Indiana. And so there's a lot of

opportunity for a lot of people to say a lot of things about you. Your third year in here now,

does that callousing stuff start to happen to you personally, too? I mean, I guess I take it all

in personally, you know, you don't want the peaks in the valleys that are so high and so

low. You always want to be continue upward. I think for me, I just focus on right now, you got to have a

plan and you got to kind of see what you want the team to become and what we could become and how we're

going to get there. But I think it's just pouring in every day.

And so I don't get too far ahead of myself. I ask the players not to do that, the staff not to do that. And that starts with me. Third year in now, you've said many, many times, there's a way I want it to look. There's a direction we're going. there's a way that I want the identity to be, the DNA to be.

Where are you on that process? there's a direction we're going. There's a way that I want the identity to be, the DNA to be.

Where are you on that process right now?

Yeah, I mean, there's, I've never a question the guys working hard, being open to what we're doing.

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