When we started this season 2–9, there were a lot of outside opinions, a lot of noise, and a lot of people ready to define this team before they were fully built. What people did not see was what was happening underneath the surface. They saw the record. We saw the growth. That start tested every part of this program. We traveled through Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida with a young team, inexperienced arms, injuries, weather issues, field flooding, constant bus ri