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to you as always by State Farm Agent Russ Borges. Many things from many departments today. Ira,

we got player retention, we got a portal commit, we've got setting the course for the new

era of the front office under Mike Norvell and Mike

Alford.

Where would you like to begin?

Should we spin a wheel?

What do you think?

Yeah, and you said player retention.

That doesn't necessarily mean that they were successful in retention.

It was a topic.

Yeah, let's start with the press conference.

And Corey and I did a wrap up video from that so people can watch that, but maybe we can

touch on that real quick.

You know, I do think it was, it was just a weird, I know why they did it.

I mean, I really felt like they felt like they should do something to just give some information to the fan base because

it's been so long since the fan base really has gotten anything concrete from Florida

State, you know, since honestly the week of the Florida game, you know, you go through the

whole month of December where, you know, you know that Mike Norville is coming back, but coaches

are leaving, coaches are coming, some coaches are coming and then leaving where you know you know that Mike Norvell is coming back but coaches are leaving coaches are coming some coaches are coming and then leaving you know the transfer

portal all this you know for a month there's kids going into the portal but they can't go you can't

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