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"The thing for me is, it's been a long time since I was, as it were, on the dating market," he tells BBC News.

"It's really a positive thing for patients and for the University of Iowa."

"The most important thing for me at this moment is to create the principles, the identity and the character we had in the past," he said.

“I’m not saying there’s still not some value there,” Riley said Thursday, “but I think the bigger thing for us is we’ve obviously been on the cusp all year and the team has hung in there, has obviously fought their tails off, and I just think it’s important to the group to really finish the right way and continue to lift this program up.”

“It just was never, I think, completely the perfect thing for either side,” Riley said.