 in Plunk and Mason McMillan, and we will open it up to head coach Dart for opening remarks. Yeah, obviously congratulations to North Central and coach Spencer. His staff and players, you know, executed their game plan and won the national championship. So once again, congrats to them. You know, I lost my last game at Mount Union in a stag bowl. And this is what I shared with our team is, you know, there's no words that, you know, is going to make this feel better right now. But we fought till the end. We played hard and, you know, we're not into moral victories at Mount Union. You know, we lost the game. And, you know, that is what it is. We got a little bit of a slow start in the first half. And that's on me as the offensive play caller. I thought our defense played very well. You know, maybe besides a couple explosive plays. But at the end of the day, congrats to North Central. They made the plays and they won the game. We'll open it to questions, questions from the media or from our participating SIDs. Congratulations. And but we just want to congratulate you guys on a great season. I know this isn't how you wanted it to end. You talked earlier in the week about January 10 and that day mattered in sort of this year long journey you've been on. You want to talk about the whole season, this whole year and what it's meant to this group. Yeah, you know, a couple of the other things I mentioned when I was talking to them. I was proud of the leadership, obviously from these two, but the other three captains and, you know, I challenged the young guys. I was like, hopefully you feel this right now and it hurts. But you know, we got another opportunity and I know it sounds crazy, but it'll be in a few weeks here when we start the next off season. And you know, I think we have some talented guys. I don't think I know we have some talent coming back in. I'm not just dismissing this team. I'm proud of what this team did. All right. We made it to the national championship game. We had an opportunity when we came up short. Like I said, there's no moral victories, but what these guys did is leaders to take us to, you know, that standard of having the opportunity to do it. I'm proud of them. So, you know, moving forward, that's still going to be our goal. We're not changing our standards and expectations. Question in front, Rob. We're actually, you guys have had some pretty exciting, thrilling come from behind wins. And when you threw that touchdown pass to Wayne, what were your thoughts at that point? Just if we had a chance just to make the most of it. But, um, like Coach Start said, half hops to North Central, the great team, great players, great coaches. And I wish that we could have played a little better in the first half and I could have helped get us some points because our defense played great. Okay. Why would we not until the clock strikes zero? I mean, we coach, can you talk about the adjustments you guys made in the first half? He had 66 yards in the first half and 80 something on the first drive of the second half. Yeah. Um, you know, uh, we came into it, you know, wanting to protect and throw, you know, we identified some things in coverage, you know, they did it, you know, did some different things in coverage that we were ready for and we should have went to the run sooner. And, you know, obviously Braxton being the leader is that he could have made more plays. It's it's really me, you know, setting our guys up for success. So if we would have got to the run earlier and maybe controlled some of the clock and chunked out some first downs and gotten some better opportunities to score some points and take some pressure off of our defense, but, um, I am proud how we played in the second half and, uh, you know, we came up short. But these guys play their hearts out. Mason, the defense had some big time stops, you know, throughout the game. What can you say about the fight of the team overall? Yeah, I mean, I'm just proud of all of them. I'm proud of the alignment up front. We had a game play and I think we executed it, you know, pretty well. And the D line did a great job. Can't say enough about them. The seniors have played up there. I mean, there's a big challenge with North Central and credit to them for playing really well too. But yeah, I'm just proud of all the guys on defense. I thought they all played their hearts out to wait for our next question from the audience. Coach Darn versus quarter obviously major time of session in favor of North Central. How did you guys make that adjustment in the second quarter to make it more of an even game? Second quarter or second half really in the second quarters when you started seeing the time of session shift a bit more towards your favor? Yeah, I mean, we got some things going. We had better protection and got some things going in the run game where we were able to, you know, create our own momentum. And that's kind of what we've talked about throughout the course of the year is we have to create our own momentum on offense, defense and special teams. Defense played, you know, I mean, I know they scored 14 points, but they played very, very well in the first half. And you never know if we could have went down and scored a touchdown or at least got a field goal and created some momentum for ourselves. And you know, big fourth down stop when we drove the ball down on the first drive of the third quarter. You know, again, like that's not a moral victory because we drove the ball down by primarily running it and then getting stopped on fourth down. But I think that gave our offensive line in our offense some confidence that we could move the ball, whether we were running it or passing it. And, you know, we came up short. Additional questions from the audience. Mr. Braxton, what does it say about the team? I mean, all year you guys been fighting, but down, you know, 21 nothing, but still just just just to fight in the mentality you guys have. What's to say about your brothers on your team? Not currently. Mason was saying it's proud of him. I wish it could have been a little better for him. I got him a ring, but you know, just proud of the way they fought. Additional questions from our media members. Seeing none. Coach Dark, Braxton, Mason, thank you very much. Congratulations on the great season. Thank you.