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First of all, thank each and every one of you for coming here today. It means so much to us. Our family is excited and grateful for this historic honor. The past 17 years haven't felt like work rather, it has felt like teamwork, players, coaches, staff, and our incredible fans have made it happen, love our fans. I just hope that we can continue supporting Alabama, supporting Children, students, teachers and education through the football platform, as well as our next Kids foundation. Thank you again and roll tide. Thank you so much for being here today. Uh This is, this is no surprise to me or us because your support has always been the best in the country in terms of how you supported Alabama athletics and how you supported the football program and how you supported us. So I thank you so much. We appreciate it more than, you know, but this is *** great honor to have the field named after the legacy that we've been able to create here. But I want this legacy to represent every player who played, who worked hard, uh every coach who helped those players develop our administration who set *** foundation where we had *** chance to be successful by, by providing all the resources that we needed to be, to have the best program in the country. And to you, the fans who are always positive in terms of the way you supported our players, our program and all the things that we did. You've given more to me than we've given to you. You made us *** part of this community 18 years ago, which we appreciate. It's our home. Now, you, you've given us the opportunity to be the coach at one of the great universities in this country. And I can't tell you how much that means to me that Mal Moore and Dr Wit gave us an opportunity 18 years ago now to come here and try to elevate Alabama football to be one of the nationally respected programs in the country and it was *** great team that did it, not me. Uh My family made great sacrifices you made, had great impact on with your support and creating one of the best atmospheres in college football to play in at Bryant Denny Stadium. Uh This community embraced us when we came here and I'm also proud of the fact that because we had such great support, we created *** program that helped players be more successful in life. We could develop better people. Uh We have 668 degrees in 17 years, which I'm very proud of, which is gonna help those guys have *** better quality of life. And the number of wins and championships is all *** reflection of the team, which is the players, the coaches, you, the fans, our administration and everybody who represents the program. So I can't thank you enough for being here today, but I can't thank you enough for the support that you've given us in good times and in bad, in terms of helping our program be successful. And we want to continue to make Alabama one of the outstanding football programs in the country, but also one of the outstanding athletic programs in the country because I think it's the window that people look at this great university and the impact that we were able to have by having successful program has elevated our university. And I'm proud of the fact that we were able to contribute to do that in so many ways. So, thank you very much and roll Todd. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.