Sorry for the delay.

No, that's on me on that one.

So thanks everyone for joining us.

We have Coach Ferrence on with us now.

Coach, we'll go ahead and start the opening from you,

and then we'll take some questions and move through this.

First of all, just good afternoon.

Appreciate everybody joining at late notice here.

So first and foremost,

thought it's really important to give everybody

an opportunity to address your questions.

Certainly a lot's changed since our last conversation

and released a couple statements in a video on top of that.

So I just think it's important for everybody to have a chance to ask their questions.

And I'll give you that opportunity in a second just after a few remarks.

Just update you on a couple things.

So first of all, I just want to thank former players that have had the courage to speak

out about their experiences in our program.

And I'm very, very sorry for any hardships that any of them endured.

And if they didn't feel safe to speak truly, that that's certainly something I feel really

about.

Past 48 hours, had a lot of conversations with former players, both black and white,

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