Welcome to On the Bench, I am your host, Brendan Sinone. I am joined today by Josh Newburgh.

Hi Josh.

Chris Knee, hello Chris.

Good morning, buddy.

And, and joining us today a special guest, Florida State football coach Mike Norvell.

Mike, welcome to On the Bench.

How are you doing this morning?

Man, doing great.

I appreciate you guys having me on and hope everybody's doing well.

Thank you. Well, we appreciate you joining us. I did save the best for last. I appreciate having the

Zoom call with you in a little bit different context because the Zoom press conferences you were very generous with your time this year Mike

But I have to imagine you would much rather be doing this in a more intimate either in person or

Am I is it fair to say that the Zoom calls were a little

a little taxing for you by the end of the year when you were doing four times a week?

It was a it was definitely a different experience you know the thought we did a pretty solid job limiting as many technical issues as we as we could, but you know, it's something to be in person and to be able to, you know, get a sense of the emotion of people, you know, you know, that day-to-day interaction is one of my favorite things about the job that I have.

And, you know, just even looking back throughout the year just the different zoom meetings

we had to do with our players you know obviously the interaction or lack thereof with the with

the media and you know so many people that that invest so much time within this program.

You know, it definitely looking forward to getting back to normal.

You know, I don't know if I'll, you know, you mentioned having more intimate setting with you three guys.

I'm not sure about that, but I mean, hey,'re gonna we'll we'll roll forward here with this and you know I'm sure we'll see all

everybody in person here soon and I all right so let's get going on some really positive news and to me that's the use of the

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