I don't know how much longer we'll have a post-spring transfer portal, but we got one.

Okay, so if I walk in and I take over a program year one, on one hand, I've got just the way I want to do things.

I'm going to go, go, go.

It used to be that the roster you had was the roster you had.

Now it's like that little quarter machine down at the casino game in the beach where it could push the quarters off the edge and I've heard you say before I don't coach in fear of the

portal in year one how mindful do you have to be at least that I got some guys I think it'll

work out if they stay here but if I run them off in spring I'll never know or is it just I'm

going to do it my way whatever comes comes yeah I think I'm going to do it my way, whatever comes comes?

Yeah, I think I'm going to do it my way.

And I think my way has just changed and evolved over the years.

We put clear-cut expectations in front of our kids.

They understand exactly what we're asking for.

We don't try to drive them to levels of insanity, like maybe back in the day when old school

coaches could just push kids off that cliff or off that quarterback as you're talking about.

And I think the way we run our program, we're able to be very demanding, very hard, push the limits of it,

but get the full buy-in that we're looking for.

I think with the way we coach and present and create the expectations of what we're trying

to do, if a kid's not on board with that, it probably won't work out and it probably

won't get where we want to go.

When you first took this job, which is a year ago, a little over a year ago now,

what are some of the first conversations like? I assume you meet with players, you meet with

everybody you can. I mean, what kind of feedback are you looking for from players? What kind of,

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