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I'm thinking about today
and standing out here and looking at all

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the building that's going on around us
and thinking back to about 17,

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18 months ago when a lot of you
stood with me over there,

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just beyond the old tennis courts
with a swamp out behind us.

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The same thing out here,
talking about all the great things

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that were going to happen
in the next 18 months.

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Well, thank goodness they have.

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Our predictions were true

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thanks to the Osprey Club
and to the students who put money

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into the trust funds
and the support of people like Curtis

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Pollack, President McRae, vice president
Quinlen, Student Government Association.

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Michael Holmes, representing them today,.

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They were able to put together
a complex out here.

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That's the first step towards meeting
the needs that we have

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with the burgeoning university
that we are becoming.

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The students beginning to live on campus
with a lot more activity going on.

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You can see over here, the gym over there,

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over here

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for the underneath area
we intend to build, starting

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right over there by those bricks coming
right on around here behind home plate.

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We intend to have a good time.

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As you'll see underneath the stadium,
we intend to build visiting and home

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locker rooms,

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concession stand, laundry room,
equipment room, those kinds of things.

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So we're really looking forward
to getting started.

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Howard Gilbertson has come up today
from Orlando to be with us.

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Then Brock Industries will be doing
[inaudible] stadium part of it.

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[applause]

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Pleasure.

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Thanks.

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[inaudible]

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I'm sure that we could

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show them a thing or two [inaudible]

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Very pretty [inaudible]

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I think that speaks of extraordinarily
high quality growth.

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And for that reason, I'm extremely pleased

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with [inaudible] this project along.

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It's a great deal to [inaudible]
That kind of signal the kind of statement

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to this community that other people
are going to be supported as well.

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So I want to say congratulations
to us all.

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Congratulations to UNF.

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It's another great day
and the whole series of ceremonies

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that we seem
to have here without stopping.

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Thank you very much for coming.

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[applause] One thing I would like to say
is to indicate I came on

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because I was interested

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in athletics and interested in baseball,
but I [inaudible] on the docket

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for a little while ago.
I've since become interested

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in total university
and baseball just one facet of a

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very exciting university for

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the community
and for the economic impact of

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[inaudible].

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The first game of HARDBALL,
believe it or not,

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[inaudible]

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And we sat down

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[inaudible] do

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to have a baseball program in 1987-1988.

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And he said,
you need to do this, this, this and this.

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And we said, well,
we can do this, this and this.

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But we also one some other things.

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Administration at the university

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made a commitment to support us
in every endeavor.

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I'm happy
to say that this commitment is coming

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true today
with the [inaudible] groundbreaking.

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The administration has just been
so supportive of the Osprey Club.

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The Osprey Club
and so the rest has bring us together

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[inaudible] month period, [inaudible]
the university, the board of Regents,

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the students, all people who've been major

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benefactors in particularly [inaudible].

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[applause] Another gentleman
who's been instrumental in the development

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of the [inaudible] money
to complete the stadium in the area.

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I just like to call [inaudible].

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[applause]

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Thank you
as far as the baseball committee,

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[inaudible]
the chance to see what's going on.

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I've been charged with the responsibility
of raising a quarter of a million dollars

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with the other members of the Osprey Club.

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I'm happy to announce today

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that the quarter of a million dollars
[inaudible] over the next three years.

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[applause]

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With the

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with the support [applause].

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A year ago this time I did not.

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[applause] First of all, I'd like
to thank everybody for coming out today.

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They don't realize how important it is
when you start a program like this

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to be first [inaudible].

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The people [inaudible]

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that's what makes it worthwhile.

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Right now, we have built a stadium
with people from the East Coast

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to the West Coast to know
that we're building a program here.

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[inaudible]

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Everyone in the town of Jacksonville is

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trying to help this program.

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[inaudible]

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[inaudible] All-Star Game.

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So those type of players coming in here,
not only are they good players,

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but they're good academic [inaudible]
and that's the main thing.

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[inaudible] [applause]

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And it's our program.

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[applause]

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Dr. Walter Grant,

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who has come on to the board,

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[inaudible].

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[applause and people talking]

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