“Yeah, watched the game Saturday night, slept on it and thought about it a lot throughout the night. Didn’t sleep much. Thought about it a little bit more Sunday morning and just felt like it was the best interest of our program, both for both for this year — because we still have a lot to play for, we still have a really cool opportunity in front of us — and for the future that we needed to make the change. We simply weren’t making the progress I think that we that we all expected that we would make. It’s tough because these decisions when you make them there’s no guarantees in this game. We’re two football snaps away from being undefeated in this conference, right now. You never know exactly how these things are gonna go.

“Alex is a great coach, a great person. He’s proven that a lot throughout his career and I’m disappointed that it didn’t work here. I know he is as well. But we’ve got to move on. We’re gonna move on. Excited for coach (Shaun) Nua and coach (Brian) Odom, their opportunity. Excited for Taylor Mays. Excited for our team. We got a big time challenge, but a big time opportunity right in front of us here with these last two games. We win these two, we could put ourselves in a pretty cool position. So that’s our focus, my focus going forward. If we were in a situation where we didn’t have a whole lot left to play for in terms of a conference championship and having an opportunity there might feel a little bit different, but we’re still we’re very laser-focused on these opportunities ahead and then whatever comes next after that we’ll deal with at the appropriate time.”