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I survived Las Vegas.

I am home.

Ari made it a while back and left me there in his town.

And I wasn't as equipped for it as you are, Ari. I'm washed, I think. I think I'm just not who I used to be. I loved it. I love it. And I was sad to leave. But a week in Las Vegas is a long time. So if you made it through unscath, then you're more battle tested than you think you are. I'm feeling pretty good. Now, I, I was very well behaved. I did not, don't believe I placed a single bet, despite many, many walks through the casino. And I did open the gym every morning at 6 a.m. So feel, feel good about that. Yeah, that wasn't quite my experience. But we all, uh, we all enjoy Vegas our own way. That's what makes it a great city, you know. Exactly. You know, it could be whatever you want it to be. So before we get into the news the weekend, and there's a lot, there's a piece of news that came down on Sunday that it's not fun to talk about. Mike Leach, Mississippi State coach, is in the hospital and don't know much more

than that, other than it's a personal health crisis. Zach Arnett has been placed in charge of the

Mississippi State program for now, and we'll see what happens. But prayers go out to Coach Leach

and his wife, Sharon, and I hope everything's going to be okay. And'll we'll just see what happens we'll keep you posted on that as far as we know but uh that was the not great news that that came out on sunday it's terrible you just you know hope hope for the best for everybody uh in that community and and coach leach and his family. Yeah, so we'll see what happens.

Other not great news on Sunday was probably going to happen.

You kind of sense even, I mean, maybe go back to the 2020 season that this was

ultimately going to happen, but Ken Neumato Lolo fired at Navy, Ari.

And that's, it's one of those things.

They're not, you know, a national title contending program or anything like that. But this is the winningest coach in program history. And I know I saw a lot of people saying, well, he's the winningest coach. You don't do that to a guy like that. I was like, no, it feels like it had kind of run its course. And I think coach Ken would probably agree with that.

It's just he's done, he's done such a great job.

And it's tough to see it in this way.

You would have wanted to see him be able to go out on his own terms and just retire and retire after an Army Navy win.

But that's just not how it's going to happen.

Yeah, you know, the thing that's interesting about the, the military academies is, you know,

when you think about what's actually at stake for a lot of the young men who are on those teams

and what they're signing up to do in their lives, like college football seems like kind of small

potatoes, you know, I think in the pregame video, what stood out to me is that everybody, uh,

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