Robert and I after a series of discussions have mutually agreed to part ways.

And for me this is a day of gratitude and celebration.

I start with Robert and his family. gratitude and celebration.

Start with Robert and his family. It's great so much thanks for the opportunity to be a coach here for 24 years.

It's an amazing opportunity.

We received tremendous support.

We had a vision of, you know, building a championship football team here and that's

exceeded my wildest dreams and expectations.

The amount of success that we were able to achieve together, you know, through a lot of hard

work and, you know, contributions to so many people.

So I'm very proud of that and I always have those great memories

will carry with those those with me the rest of my life.

And of course after, you know, Robert, thanks to assistant

coaches. You know, I've got so many great coaches here. They've made my job so much easier.

It's a long list, but you know the amount of work preparation and diligence that they do, every one of them.

And I say this about the players and the coaches regardless of how long they were here.

How many years they were here? How many years they coach of what the position was.

You know, it was a great team effort and everybody, you know, put everything they had into it.

And that's why we're successful.

So, from the coaches, the sports staff, it's an amazing staff here that supported me in every way.

All the scouting and all the football support people

from equipment and training, security video operations, so forth, right down the line dining room I mean it's all it's all first

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