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\u201cGreat day. Had an opportunity to get out and play some ball. I want to thank our fans for showing up the way they did on a beautiful Rocky Top day. Vol Walk, it was awesome to have them there and in the stadium as well. We got a lot of (former) players, players\u2019 families that are back this weekend, so appreciate them showing up.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso want to say thanks to A.K., Alvin Kamara<\/a>, just (for) what he\u2019s done since I got back with this program, coming back, pouring into our entire team, being around every time he gets an opportunity. Then you look at him stepping up and his commitment to this university, this athletic department. The gift that he made, I can\u2019t thank him enough for everything that he means to us.<\/p>\n \u201cGreat having a lot of players back, too. Having Alontae Taylor<\/a>, D-Samp (Dylan Sampson<\/a>) back, getting a chance to spend time with them, but as much as anything, be a part of this weekend with us, too \u2013 I want to say a special thanks to all of our former players that came back as well.<\/p>\n \u201cWith that, I\u2019ll open it up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening statement: \u201cGreat day. Had an opportunity to get out and play some ball. I want to thank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-864351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116388822008259018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}