Good morning, everybody. Appreciate you being here. Just to start off today, you know, just want to give a special, you know, thank you to all the veterans out there, you know, here on Veterans Day, you know, just for their service to our country for the work and the sacrifices that are poured in, you know, from themselves and just, you know, the time and investment that, you and investment that helps allow us have the freedoms

to do all the things that we get to do here in this wonderful country.

And so to all the veterans, definitely, you appreciate you and it's great to be able to celebrate the work that you have put in and all the investments

into our country.

And then to Coach Penske and the soccer team, just so very excited for the ACCCC championship

you're there yesterday.

I mean, obviously a great day and, you know, just an incredible season.

That's, you know, not done yet, but, you know, definitely want to congratulate, you know, that team and, you know, the way that they've worked and responded throughout this course of the season to finish as ACC champions, you know, definitely proud of them.

You know, coming, coming off the weekend, it's been, you know, it's been a really, really hard weekend. And, you know, obviously from the game, you know, as I told you afterwards, you know,

extremely disappointing to the performance, to how we played, it was a game that, you know, there, we had our moments, we had our opportunities early, and then, you know, kind of snowballed on us there in the second half, and, you know, game got away.

And it was, you know, I thought, you know, even going back watching the film, you know, I did not question our player's effort.

You know, I thought they played hard.

They tried to fight, you know,

throughout it, but, you know, ultimately, we're not good enough, you know, in our performance.

And, you know, that's in all three phases, you know, everybody involved in the program.

You know, yesterday with the decision to, you know, to change with, you know, the three coaches,

you know, obviously is, you know, it's hard. I mean, those are great men and they're great

coaches. And I mean, obviously, you know, this season and, and, you know, where we are is not to the standard of anyone,

and, you know, in all reality, not to the standard of them either.

But decision to make the change was one that I deemed was best for the program, and, you know,

obviously we are going to bounce back you know

we're going to bounce back quickly and you know obviously it's my job my task to

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