Hey, look, very excited to be here.

Great to see so many familiar faces.

Great to have our students here.

A lot of our alums, family, friends, supporters.

Look, this is deeply personal for me to be back here and to celebrate with all you guys here today.

I can't even express in words what Dr. Roos and just the administration,

everybody has meant to me, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be back with my wife and my daughter.

My daughter's a little taller now. You know, they've been the foundation through the highs

and lows, Carolina and Lauren, that we've been through.

They keep me smiling, keep me grounded, remind me of what matters in life.

And so these two have sacrificed a lot for us to be here today.

They sacrificed a ton.

So I love you guys and thank you guys so much for being here.

There's too many people to thank for making this happen.

There's just a ton of folks involved to make this happen.

I want to first off thank our Governor Jeff Landry.

I want to thank our wonderful LSU board, many of who are here today,

our great chairman, Lee Mallet. I want to thank Dr. Ruse, who I've worked with before.

We're going to work well together again, get that alignment. We've got he's Schroyer here.

Same chain of command as Doc likes to say, and certainly our wonderful athletic administration

and everybody involved in the athletic administration.

Their belief in me and the belief in me that this is the right time to come home will never

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