204 is in the rearview mirror now.

When you just look back on that in totality and people ask you, hey, how 2024 go for you?

Like they were in a freeze chamber and they didn't watch anything last year.

How did 2024 sit with you?

It sat with me, I would say, along the lines of tons of progress and got right to a point

where we had a chance to really get over the hump and at the end of disappointing

ending because we were basically a drive short of qualifying for the ACC championship game and

getting into the playoffs. That being said, I can't ignore the progress part because Miami's come a long

way in these last three years and it's led to another great class,

and it propels us into the future. But I would sum it up like that. Do you ever find yourself kind of

having to balance? I mean, if you're a driven type A kind of person, the success is great, but you tend

to focus on what's not right. You want to get what's not right fixed. But then at the same time,

okay, you can do that behind the scenes. But when you're front facing, when you're at a press conference or when you're talking like this, you've got to make sure that you're acknowledging,

hey, we went five wins, seven wins, ten wins. That's linear progression. That's about as clear

cut as it gets. We're winning double-digit games, which we haven't done around here, at least collectively for a long time. I mean, do you kind

of find yourself having to say, hey, you know, there's still a lot to scrutinize, but it's okay

for about two nanoseconds to, hey, good job. We're better than we were two years ago. I mean, I approach every single press conference like a team meeting,

like almost like a PTA meeting, right? Parents, Teachers Association meeting because you want

clarity and transparency for everyone in the organization and the family's involved as well. And

how do you do that? You acknowledge the facts. You set goals and plans for the future, but you make

sure that everyone is very, very aware and understands exactly where we are, where we plan to go,

what's going to be tolerated, what's not going to be tolerated. So I think if you use that approach

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