That purple and white walk-on story sounds nice, but you're romanticizing the past. We had our own Rudy in Matt Bernstein, a fullback who earned his scholarship and became a legend by eating six raw eggs before blocking for Anthony Davis. That story mattered because he stayed and contributed. Today, a kid gets that scholarship and is in the portal by December if he doesn't start. The problem isn't the portal itself, it's the lack of patience. Your guy Patterson had plenty of players transfer out over the years, you just didn't have a website tracking it every hour. The soul of a program isn't gone, it's just harder to find under all the noise.