Speaker 1: It's mc giardano. Uh, the beauty of the green rooms
Speaker 1: that I can see that he he has a he
Speaker 1: has a background that that is a very very bedroomish
Speaker 1: and that's a good thing. It means he's got a
Speaker 1: roof over his head. So we're gonna bring in the
Speaker 1: head coach at unc Asheville mc giardano and as I see, uh,
Speaker 1: go ahead and raise that right arm there there, Mick, Now,
Speaker 1: what happened there?
Speaker 2: John, that's a that's a story for another day, My friend,
Speaker 2: that's A that's a UH. That's another story. Don't worry
Speaker 2: that was This is not UH is not weather related.
Speaker 2: This is uh. This is uh. You know how some
Speaker 2: of those radio stations they say, there's the d A
Speaker 2: of the day, and you got your your moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes I do, because uh, I don't even
Speaker 1: need a radio station to tell me about.
Speaker 3: Being a d A and UH and d A is
Speaker 3: uh A an.
Speaker 1: Abbreviation for someone who is not so smart, and UH
Speaker 1: could be associated with with if you remember the Disney
Speaker 1: movie Gus. That would be the way to break it down. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it is not related to anything recent and meteorological,
Speaker 1: is what you're saying.
Speaker 2: No, no, it is not it is. Uh, it is
Speaker 2: certainly not a fun or, I should say, one of
Speaker 2: my more intelligent moments. However, my wife does take joy
Speaker 2: and reminding me, even though she already knew she was
Speaker 2: the intelligent one, she does take joy and reminding me like, yeah, this,
Speaker 2: this just kind of really solidifies that. Enough.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm right there with you. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 1: It is definitely something where I am reminded of my
Speaker 1: my profound lack of intelligence by the boss as.
Speaker 3: And I tell her that it's like, look, you know, if.
Speaker 1: I do something stupid, I know that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: the first person to tell me, and feel free to
Speaker 1: tell everybody else I did something stupid. You know that
Speaker 1: that is perfectly fine.
Speaker 4: You gotta take it. If you do it, you.
Speaker 3: Gotta take it exactly.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm glad first and foremost that we were
Speaker 1: able to find you and catch up and see how
Speaker 1: you are d a of the day moment outstanding. And
Speaker 1: I guess my first question is how are the Giordanos.
Speaker 2: We are We're good. I appreciate it, you know we are.
Speaker 2: We are right ironic enough, My wife was actually in
Speaker 2: California on a work trip, So it was just myself
Speaker 2: and our dogs at our house which we're we're about south.
Speaker 2: We are out by the airport in Mills River. So
Speaker 2: we're all good. Our staff, thankfully is everyone is safe
Speaker 2: and everyone is is okay. So the Castos, which Joe
Speaker 2: is our head assistant recruiting coordinator, his wife is actually
Speaker 2: the head assistant on the women's side for us, they
Speaker 2: are all good, and they are out in the Raleigh
Speaker 2: area and everything. And then our others just at Ronnie,
Speaker 2: him and his wife are safe bouncing between Ashville helping
Speaker 2: people and Charlotte getting supplies and whatnot. So thankfully we
Speaker 2: all we're all very blessed and very safe.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So let me go back to when Helene came through
Speaker 1: and left one of the most awe inspiring calling cards
Speaker 1: you could ever leave. And I mean that in the
Speaker 1: sense of yeah, I'm here, and yeah you're gonna remember it,
Speaker 1: and it's it's It has been referred to as apocalyptic,
Speaker 1: it has been referred to as awe inspiring, it has
Speaker 1: been referred to as just absolute devastation. So when Helene
Speaker 1: was going through, where were you and your staff and
Speaker 1: your players? Did you tell everybody just to get out
Speaker 1: of town or what.
Speaker 2: So we we knew it was gonna be bad, but
Speaker 2: we didn't know it was going to be this bad.
Speaker 2: So we were all still on campus or in the area,
Speaker 2: and we had a meeting. Athletic department had a MANAGEORENT
Speaker 2: meeting last minute on Thursday, sorry on Wednesday, and then
Speaker 2: we had basically a talk of hey, on Thursday, we
Speaker 2: had another meeting saying we need to really be careful.
Speaker 2: This could get really nasty. And that was on Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: So Wednesday, the rain started around fourish in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: typical rain, but it was heavy, just a storm, but
Speaker 2: it kept going through Thursday. We started to get a
Speaker 2: little bit worried on how much rain it was really
Speaker 2: starting to hit the entire area. And that's when people
Speaker 2: started to go, this is not going to be good.
Speaker 2: But we were still all on campus, we were still
Speaker 2: at our houses, and everyone was still just kind of
Speaker 2: hunkered down. The Athletic Department went ahead and said everyone
Speaker 2: stay off campus. This was Thursday afternoon. Everyone make sure
Speaker 2: if you need last minute stop by right now. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: everyone be off campus outside of emergency personnel, which was
Speaker 2: our sport admin. And then the athletic director. So they
Speaker 2: were still kind of bouncing around, and then Friday mid
Speaker 2: were probably around four am, maybe a touch earlier. It
Speaker 2: really the storm actually hit and the winds and the
Speaker 2: majority of us lost power around five to six am
Speaker 2: that morning, maybe summer even earlier, and that's when it
Speaker 2: got real serious, really really fast.
Speaker 1: Okay, And once again, the beauty of the green room
Speaker 1: is that I can see when folks drop in, and
Speaker 1: I specifically asked you to send out the siren call
Speaker 1: just so you can try and catch up with as
Speaker 1: many folks as possible. And I'm going to go ahead
Speaker 1: and bring Andy and Andy mcnahm on the women's side
Speaker 1: is Yeah, I guys, Hey, Andy, I was asking Mick
Speaker 1: about and you came in in the green room and
Speaker 1: you might have caught a little bit of this of
Speaker 1: when the campus was basically telling everybody there at you NCA, hey,
Speaker 1: Helen's coming, get your stuff together and make sure that
Speaker 1: you're either hunkered down.
Speaker 3: Or out of here.
Speaker 1: Where were you in all of these discussions as everything
Speaker 1: was being brought into play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what everyone needs to realize is there's
Speaker 4: obviously a lot going on in these moments, and I
Speaker 4: think for us, our first and foremost as family, and
Speaker 4: our athletes and where they throughout this process as well.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think the cellular service going down
Speaker 4: didn't help this whole process. And you know, I think
Speaker 4: it's just how how do you get in touch with
Speaker 4: people and how do you make sure everybody is as
Speaker 4: safe as possible? And I think, you know, as Mick
Speaker 4: and I have spoke since we've had our devices available,
Speaker 4: as how quickly our student athletes reacted to this and
Speaker 4: and got themselves mobilized and and and out of the
Speaker 4: out of the area and being open. It was difficult
Speaker 4: being in that environment and without those communications and trying
Speaker 4: to get everybody where they needed to be. But yeah,
Speaker 4: we were, we were at home personally, and and you know,
Speaker 4: when power starts going out and and all of that,
Speaker 4: it's it's it was a scary situation for sure.
Speaker 1: And as you can tell, Andy is from Bunkham County,
Speaker 1: He's a native with the accent that's there. Uh let
Speaker 1: me do this snake draft style. Uh Andy, let me
Speaker 1: ask you how difficult is it? And have you caught
Speaker 1: up with everybody there on the roster coaching staff? Where
Speaker 1: is your level of communication? In reconnecting right now with everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been in good communication now, making sure you know, players, coaches,
Speaker 4: support staff are all okay, in a good place. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'd like to use this platform to shout out our
Speaker 4: players and they were phenomenal. And you know, there's some
Speaker 4: pictures that I've been giving afterwards of them around the
Speaker 4: hood of a car with I guess they would call
Speaker 4: an old school map try to figure it a way
Speaker 4: out of Ashville. And you know, as soon as I
Speaker 4: got selling your service, was given a list of where
Speaker 4: everybody was, who was with who, which city, which house
Speaker 4: And for me, the problem solving skills there is through
Speaker 4: the roof from eighteen to twenty year olds, you know,
Speaker 4: And I think that's the biggest, the proud moment for
Speaker 4: us of they got themselves out in this moment where
Speaker 4: I personally couldn't get to them and went on campus
Speaker 4: Saturday to try and find them, they weren't there and
Speaker 4: had found out that they by themselves worked this out
Speaker 4: and mobilized everybody in those moments. So but afterwards, you know,
Speaker 4: we're in good contact now and just kind of wait
Speaker 4: to see what the next steps are and knowing that
Speaker 4: they're safe and their sound and hearing there, even getting
Speaker 4: some training in is good for them to still be
Speaker 4: in contact for sure. But yeah, we're we're getting messages
Speaker 4: out as we can, but obviously, as you can imagine,
Speaker 4: we're working with limited information right now.
Speaker 3: Mick, what about on your side, Yeah, it was it
Speaker 3: was similar.
Speaker 2: I was a little bit later to get service, so
Speaker 2: myself and then Joe Will working kind of to figure
Speaker 2: out where everyone was first and foremost and everyone was safe,
Speaker 2: and that was done Sunday morning. We were able to
Speaker 2: find out that the majority had gotten out at that
Speaker 2: point and they had done not as organized by any
Speaker 2: means as the women's team they are, they were top
Speaker 2: notch and how they were able to have it, but
Speaker 2: our boys were still quite quite positive with how they
Speaker 2: were able to manage to get everyone out and get
Speaker 2: down the Charlotte and then go from there with it.
Speaker 2: We got the last group out Sunday afternoon as they
Speaker 2: did not have any gas, so that was an interesting situation. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: some families came and helped there and we were able
Speaker 2: to get everyone safe. But now we're just communicating normal.
Speaker 2: We are scattered a touch, like Andy said, but everyone
Speaker 2: is safe. Everyone is with families. We have five families,
Speaker 2: I believe if I remember correctly, that I've taken in
Speaker 2: teammates and extras and everything, and they are some of
Speaker 2: the true heroes right now for our staffs stepping up
Speaker 2: and taking on extra and still messaging both of our
Speaker 2: staffs on how can they do more? And they want
Speaker 2: to do more, But we are We know the boys
Speaker 2: are safe, we know they're they're together, and they're in
Speaker 2: a good place. And now we just continue just to
Speaker 2: via text at the moment, and then once we get
Speaker 2: more information, we'll probably have a group a group setting,
Speaker 2: or maybe it could be a fall fall sports setting
Speaker 2: where we get student athletes together touch base, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Mick, what's it been like to see your student athletes
Speaker 1: step up like this in an unconscionable situation where, if
Speaker 1: I remember the math this morning, you've got four hundred
Speaker 1: I think it's over four hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: households still without power. I think I forty eastbound was
Speaker 1: finally opened up this morning for traffic. I twenty six
Speaker 1: was the only way in and out for a lot
Speaker 1: of this time. But I think I forty eastbound has
Speaker 1: opened up this morning. According to NCDOT, what's it been
Speaker 1: like to see your team step up in this way
Speaker 1: and understanding the gravity of the situation doing as best
Speaker 1: as they can a to stay in contact with each
Speaker 1: other and accomplish all of the things that they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I truly can't express how proud we are,
Speaker 2: myself and our staff, of all of our student athletes
Speaker 2: and all the student athletes at unc Asheville for what
Speaker 2: they've done and how they've been able to manage it.
Speaker 2: You know, we as a program, we've personally talked about
Speaker 2: you know, adversity is just an opportunity, and they certainly
Speaker 2: saw this as adversity to say the least, but they
Speaker 2: took it as the opportunity to make the most of it,
Speaker 2: and they took the opportunity to be able to help
Speaker 2: one another find the positive route, not paanic, and be
Speaker 2: able to go Andy will tell you, we're in this
Speaker 2: with eighteen to twenty two year olds that sometimes our
Speaker 2: knuckleheads and everything, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: it's our job to try and help them be ready
Speaker 2: for the real world. There's nothing more real world than
Speaker 2: what they're going through right now, and what they had
Speaker 2: to go through Friday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That
Speaker 2: is true real world experience on a different level of everything.
Speaker 2: So to know that they've been positive and successful navigating
Speaker 2: this adversity and navigating these challenges, it shows that they
Speaker 2: are preparing themselves correctly and they are getting ready for it.
Speaker 1: Micjer Dono and Andy McNabb in charge of both programs on
Speaker 1: the soccer side at unc Asheville, hanging out with us
Speaker 1: and giving us an update. Andy, I've been extremely remiss
Speaker 1: up to this point. How are you?
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, as there's people in much more situations
Speaker 4: and than us, and you know, we really relocate to
Speaker 4: Duntee Charlotte a couple of days ago, and you know
Speaker 4: it's for us, it's the best situation at the moment.
Speaker 4: Just try to figure out when to go back to Ashville,
Speaker 4: how to go back to Ashville, and but yeah, I
Speaker 4: think looking back in Ashville there's much worse circumstances. So
Speaker 4: now we're okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: So with your side of things, when it comes to
Speaker 1: seeing the maturity from eighteen to twenty two year olds
Speaker 1: and what is facing them right now, and I'm not
Speaker 1: talking athletics. I'm just talking about what's facing I mean,
Speaker 1: real worldlife kind of lessons here.
Speaker 3: What's it been like to see them respond as well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the point of this platform is so
Speaker 4: you can hear us talk, but I think it's the
Speaker 4: same as mikets. It's almost speechless of how well they've
Speaker 4: dealt with the adversity and truly we didn't know what
Speaker 4: it was going to be like this, and for the
Speaker 4: way that they've handled it with each other with humility
Speaker 4: and organization and just we're going to help each other out.
Speaker 4: I think there's lessons for life that have definitely been
Speaker 4: learned here. If we get to play again at some point,
Speaker 4: hopefully you know that together they've shown here translates in
Speaker 4: there and for years to come. But it has been
Speaker 4: truly remarkable, and my staff and I have been immensely
Speaker 4: proud of the way that they've stepped up and handled this,
Speaker 4: and especially with so many people out of state, out
Speaker 4: of country going through all of them going through this
Speaker 4: for the first time in their lives, I think it's
Speaker 4: an immense immense proudness of how they've how they've done this.
Speaker 1: So Mick, let me let me ask you here as
Speaker 1: a part of this since uh Andy kind of broached
Speaker 1: the subject playing, I know is furthest from a lot
Speaker 1: of folks minds, and I know that both of you
Speaker 1: would have to find your rosters bring them back to
Speaker 1: wherever the location is. But what has the response been
Speaker 1: like from the university and the conference about Look, we'll
Speaker 1: get there when we get there, just focus on being together,
Speaker 1: staying together, and making sure that you're all found in
Speaker 1: the you're all healthy. What is the Have there been
Speaker 1: any conversations when it comes to schedule resumption.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's ongoing conversations currently right now as we speak.
Speaker 2: There's things going on with the conference. I'll first start
Speaker 2: was just saying the university and the Big South, our
Speaker 2: athletic director and the athletic department, we're all tremendous and
Speaker 2: first and foremost, get everyone out, get everyone safe, go
Speaker 2: from there. But then also keeping in mind, we will
Speaker 2: navigate this, we will work through it. There's many uncertainties,
Speaker 2: but just stay patient and we will make this possible.
Speaker 2: The Big South has communicated via email and a few
Speaker 2: messages to individual sports but then also collectively about their
Speaker 2: desire to make everyone aware we're going to do everything
Speaker 2: we can, but at the moment, just hang tight and
Speaker 2: we'll have more information as it goes. So, you know,
Speaker 2: we've been given as staffs, we've been given some small projects,
Speaker 2: some small tasks to try and figure out and navigate
Speaker 2: what some things would look like and how you could
Speaker 2: potentially manage some aspects of it. But again, I think
Speaker 2: the big thing, the big thing everyone kind of really
Speaker 2: took on board was make sure everyone's safe. And then
Speaker 2: once we all get safe, appreciate the opportunity of where
Speaker 2: we are and the opportunity of being safe, because so
Speaker 2: many others are still missing, so many others are not
Speaker 2: in the same fortunate situation that we're blessed with right now,
Speaker 2: and that understanding, it is just sport, but also given
Speaker 2: some time, sport can help bring people back together and
Speaker 2: help heal some wounds. So that's kind of where it is.
Speaker 1: And you have fifteen internationals on your roster, if my
Speaker 1: math is right correct, what's it what's it like for them?
Speaker 1: In the conversations that you've been able to have with
Speaker 1: your international players, and Andy'll eventually asked you the same,
Speaker 1: because I think you have seven or eight, But what
Speaker 1: is it like with the international players who are away
Speaker 1: from home in the first place, and they are in
Speaker 1: this new environment and they're learning things about you know,
Speaker 1: unc Asheville and get chasing degrees and being student athletes
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff and integrating here in
Speaker 1: the United States. What's it like for these internationals of
Speaker 1: yours in this situation and how are they holding up
Speaker 1: being so far from home in the first place, and
Speaker 1: now having this on top of.
Speaker 2: That, I'll say, I'll even add in because we do
Speaker 2: have a fair amount from even the West Coast as well,
Speaker 2: so they're kind of all similar. It has been scary.
Speaker 2: It has been eye opening. The majority of them I've
Speaker 2: never remotely ever had to be through, go through a hurricane,
Speaker 2: or be in any type of situation like that. Thankfully enough, Again,
Speaker 2: their teammates, especially the ones from the southeast, North Carolina
Speaker 2: and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, they've all kind of rallied
Speaker 2: around them and picked their spirits up. But several have
Speaker 2: made the comment of coach or Mick or Joe, I
Speaker 2: have no idea what was going on, and that is
Speaker 2: possibly the scariest I've ever been. When I saw all
Speaker 2: the flooding and I saw everything happening and whatnot, and
Speaker 2: thankfully they were all safe, mostly on campus, but there
Speaker 2: was a lot of down trees and a lot of
Speaker 2: downpower lines and everything, and they'd never seen anything like it,
Speaker 2: they said. One I know said it looked like someone
Speaker 2: just blew up part of Camp BIS. So they were
Speaker 2: they were shocked, and they were rattled a bit as expected.
Speaker 1: Andy, what about you and your internationals and conversations that
Speaker 1: hopefully you've been able to have with all of them
Speaker 1: and if not most.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was going to echo exactly what makes said.
Speaker 4: We've got so many from you know, California, Michigan, all
Speaker 4: over the place. I think what you've saw with the
Speaker 4: community that we have, you know, our players are good people,
Speaker 4: Our families are good people, and we probably had more
Speaker 4: families reach out to make sure that the staff is
Speaker 4: okay than anything else. And I think that says a
Speaker 4: lot about them and wondering what they can do from afar.
Speaker 4: But you know, our players, as you can imagine, scared
Speaker 4: and worried about what happens next. And I think at
Speaker 4: the same time kind of a priest of you know,
Speaker 4: the people that they have around them and helping them
Speaker 4: through these moments, which I think inevitably will bring them
Speaker 4: closer together and the individually. And but yeah, I would
Speaker 4: agree with mit. Just scared and wondering what the next
Speaker 4: steps are.
Speaker 3: Were you scared at any point?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you have to be and been through
Speaker 4: this moment, and scared for the city of Ashville, scared
Speaker 4: for unca Is, scared for my own family, and then
Speaker 4: inevitably the extended family that we have through our teams
Speaker 4: and colleagues. And you know, when you start hearing that
Speaker 4: there's no water, there's no power, and then you can't
Speaker 4: speak to anybody for forty eight hours, I think just
Speaker 4: even looking from a personal level, not being able to
Speaker 4: speak with family back home, not being able to speak
Speaker 4: with in law of family, and people just not knowing
Speaker 4: you're safe as an individual, I think is scary in
Speaker 4: any moment. But when you take an entire city and
Speaker 4: it's been decimated into account, I think there has to
Speaker 4: be a lot of anxious moments and uncertainty. And I
Speaker 4: think it's okay for everybody to say that they were
Speaker 4: scared throughout this this tragedy, because I think they'd be
Speaker 4: lying otherwise, quite frankly, from some of the things we've
Speaker 4: seen and even now on the back end, once we
Speaker 4: got cell service back, looking at what has actually happened,
Speaker 4: because when you're in that environment, you maybe don't you
Speaker 4: understand what's going on, but it's when you get that
Speaker 4: cell service back and that power back. We're the lucky
Speaker 4: ones that did. It's just one of those ones where
Speaker 4: you start hearing comments from people of well did you
Speaker 4: see this? Did you see this? And you start actually
Speaker 4: seeing what has happened, and your heart your heart breaks
Speaker 4: and jaw drops, and for us, it's just we just
Speaker 4: hope that you know, things can start improving as quickly
Speaker 4: as possible.
Speaker 1: Nick, when it comes to help aid anything, What what
Speaker 1: do you need?
Speaker 3: What I mean?
Speaker 1: And this is for both of you, and we'll start
Speaker 1: with you, Nick, What do you need? What do what
Speaker 1: do folks around you need?
Speaker 3: Right now? How can folks help?
Speaker 1: I mean other than maybe being present and you know,
Speaker 1: if you you know, if you send out a text, hey,
Speaker 1: shoot me a text back, so I know that you're
Speaker 1: that you're you're hanging out with me and that you empathize.
Speaker 1: How can folks help right now?
Speaker 2: John? It's a hard it's a hard one to say,
Speaker 2: just because so much of the infrastructure is gone, and
Speaker 2: I think that is the scariest part of it all,
Speaker 2: and it's it's probably just basic, you know, basic essentials
Speaker 2: right now, continuing to send water, continuing to send food supplies,
Speaker 2: continue to send baby wipes and diapers and formula and
Speaker 2: just the basic essentials of what it is. The hope.
Speaker 2: The hope is that Duke Energy is able to get
Speaker 2: the majority of the central areas power by Friday, which
Speaker 2: then then hopefully get at least through I twenty six,
Speaker 2: get gas tankers up there, because that's the next issue
Speaker 2: is the gas situation, and then the big one right
Speaker 2: now for the city is the water situation with many
Speaker 2: of the the pipes just completely not even broken, but gone,
Speaker 2: and crews not even be able to get to them
Speaker 2: to be able to fix. So I think, you know,
Speaker 2: for for our program right now, again, we're very blessed
Speaker 2: and very fortunate. Everyone is safe, everyone is away. We
Speaker 2: we couldn't really ask for much outside of just thoughts
Speaker 2: and prayers, the people that are still there, for people
Speaker 2: that want to try and help. It's just continuing to
Speaker 2: try and get supplies, basic essentials again of water, simple foods,
Speaker 2: you know, baby formula, those sorts of things up to them,
Speaker 2: and then just hopefully the linesmen and powers they're working
Speaker 2: around the clock, just hopefully they can get some of
Speaker 2: at least some of the area back with power, so
Speaker 2: then gas tankers, food trucks, those sorts of things can
Speaker 2: start to come back into the area for the for
Speaker 2: the shops and the grocery stores and everything.
Speaker 3: Andy, let me ask you this when it comes to.
Speaker 1: The sport there on campus, how would you describe the
Speaker 1: family aspect of it? What does you and c Asheville
Speaker 1: soccer mean to the Ashville community. What does the Ashville
Speaker 1: community in turn mean to you and CAA from your
Speaker 1: time there, How did the two, how did the two
Speaker 1: blend together? And what does one mean to the other?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think Ashville itself is a big soccer community.
Speaker 4: I think from you know, you've got different entities around
Speaker 4: the town and it really has become a big soccer family,
Speaker 4: as you would say, in that sense of things. And
Speaker 4: I extend that into the club scene. I think we've
Speaker 4: got some very unfortunate instances where one of our local
Speaker 4: clubs has lost everything from fields and from the river breaking.
Speaker 4: So I think looking after each other in these moments,
Speaker 4: I think is massive and we're going to need each
Speaker 4: other moving forward to rebuild everything that we have. But
Speaker 4: I think family is thrown around very easily around a
Speaker 4: lot of programs by I would say that the githerness,
Speaker 4: even hearing our athletic director talking about you during the evacuations,
Speaker 4: sport on sport, not just soccer, but sport on sport,
Speaker 4: helping each other get out of this environment and get
Speaker 4: to safety, I think just shows in itself, and it's
Speaker 4: the actions speak louder than words that we tell our program,
Speaker 4: and I think that just shows the way that unc
Speaker 4: Ashville is for any resport, regardless of soccer or track
Speaker 4: and field or baseball or whoever it is. I think
Speaker 4: that shows the togetherness of the community and then not
Speaker 4: just helping athletes, helping others in that community at the
Speaker 4: same time as well, and I think all of that
Speaker 4: does go hand in hand. That's what it's been like
Speaker 4: and hopefully that's what it continues to be like and
Speaker 4: even stronger as we navigate the what is going on
Speaker 4: when we eventually hopefully have the opportunity to come back
Speaker 4: and eventually play for the city.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it, And obviously just know that we
Speaker 1: love you all very much and we send nothing but
Speaker 1: obviously warmest vibes and love and everything to to everyone
Speaker 1: up there and everyone that is in your circles, no
Speaker 1: matter how broad they are. Guys, thank you for doing this,
Speaker 1: and Mick, thanks for sending out the bat signal and
Speaker 1: making and making and dropping and dropping Andy in as well.
Speaker 1: Now it was Uh, I'm glad that we were able
Speaker 1: to do this. And I'm going to go ahead and
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Speaker 3: We do that a lot here in the morning show.
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Speaker 1: Helpful a lot of you for about a week now,
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I'm just gonna give you two
Speaker 2: quick updates so you know as well, from these McCrae
Speaker 2: men's soccer talking to their head coach, they're all safe.
Speaker 2: They're all evacuated and they're okay. Same thing from Mars
Speaker 2: Hill they're actually still there. Wow, they have power. They are,
Speaker 2: they're okay and they're safe. But Mars Hill talking to
Speaker 2: Greg Marcell men's soccer, they're they're all safe as well.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to give you those two updates.
Speaker 2: Just hearing from them too, and and just want to
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Speaker 1: All right, So just be safe guys, and we'll catch
Speaker 1: up soon. Go get some coffee and some breakfast, Okay,
Speaker 1: go get like a you know, like do you guys
Speaker 1: ever eat Get to eat crappy now, you guys like
Speaker 1: just get like you know, twinkies or something or you
Speaker 1: guys still trying to be as vigilant as possible.
Speaker 4: Where we ever. I don't know for or ever vigil
Speaker 4: but I think it's uh doing what we can.
Speaker 3: No worries. All right, guys, be good we'll catch up soon,
Speaker 3: all right, all
Speaker 4: Right, thanks Jan.