I hope it'll be a lot different, but in terms of what's going to be in the crowd, it's going to be a lot different today.

Absolutely.

There's going to be a big crowd at Hard Rock Stadium tonight.

It's going to be rocking.

We're expecting we have 60,000 distributed in the community.

That's a lot.

I don't take that for granted.

What's the best way to get make sure you have something scheduled? Everybody has a time reserved and individual issues can be taken care of.

Explain what Canes for South Florida is, what people that are potentially eligible can do, and just why this was important for you to do for the University of

Miami.

Thank you, Danny.

You know, I'll just bring this up quickly.

During my time at the Miami Dolphins, there's a gentleman there who's no longer with us by the name of Jason Jenkins, the longtime head of communications for the Dolphins.

And I worked with Jason for two and a half seasons, and Jason was omnipresent in the community.

There was not a place he didn't go building bridges for the community and the Miami Dolphins organization, somebody who's left an indelible mark on me and so many people in South Florida.

success of the team the investment of the program just the whole deal how are those things going for you having been here through the lean years you you can compare apples to apples you've been here before and you've been around the block how is it going right now

What role do you think the Chinese will have in all of this, if any, given the fact that they were there at the beginning of the Saudi-Iran agreement?

Well, I think I would actually look at the normalization agreement from twenty twenty-three first and foremost to actually assess what exists now that the conflict has happened.

So from my general perception, I identify the deal virtually as dead, and that any of the initial commitments that were made between the two, whether it was investment, has virtually collapsed.

What remains on the back end was this trilateral forum dialogue that Beijing, Tehran, and Saudi had, so opening up dialogue channels in Beijing to have a conversation.

So the big takeaway is that you can have virtually a deal collapse for all of the reasons you raised, and justifiably, that if one partner is targeting the other, naturally that does not necessarily look like the most effective deal.

However, if you have effective established channels in Beijing, it means that China can actually play a larger role in facilitating Iran or dialogue between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing.

That is an important development to take away from this, and I think it sets the stage not even for the post-war peace architecture in the region, but just what role China can actually play.

What are we missing looking from the outside in that you're hearing about this conflict and thinking about what a post-war environment looks like that people should be thinking about based on your conversations with Chinese, with Middle Eastern, with American, and other stakeholders?

And we're gonna get to the specific stuff with the tickets and everything, but just you personally, how did some of your journey and the experiences you had at Northwestern, with the Miami Dolphins, other places, help prepare you for this opportunity as UM tries to go to a whole nother stratosphere?

You know, great question.

And everybody has their own path on how they do stuff, and it can, it can happen in many different ways.

But, you know, starting with the Dolphins, uh, just seeing as, um, how Tom Garfinkel and that whole organization, Stephen Ross, run the Miami Dolphins and what that enterprise has become, and having a front row seat, not involved in every aspect of it, but watching it develop, I learned a ton there.

And just the best professionals and leaders I've, I've worked around are, are at the Miami Dolphins.

And seeing that, that sort of prepared me for this new, uh, I don't, uh, professionalization or commercialization of collegiate athletics a little bit.

I, I, I know where it's going.

Like, how you can use this platform to really, um, engage the fans, improve the fan experience and, and adjust, right, as you learn more about, as you get more information and take it in, and then do things differently because you have more info on what's happening in the stadium.

And when being transferred about it, when talking about it, it increases the probability that something will happen.

Yeah, I totally can relate to that.

I think it's hard, but as much as I can, I try to take Like, those moments as, like, something to get excited about because it gives you an opportunity to then do something different.

We recently got some feedback from some other funders that, like, we should change some of what we do.

And half of me is like, oh, gosh, this sounds like such a pain in the ass.

And then the other half of me is like, oh, wow, this is really exciting, a new challenge, we can be better.

And certainly one of my flops has been not moving quickly enough to bring on a bigger team to support route making for us.

Like, I think that's a big flag that someone makes, right?