Really gets me about this new era of college football? The walk on. Remember when a kid would show up unrecruited, walk into Boone Pickens with nothing but a dream and a high school highlight tape, and earn a roster spot the old fashioned way? Guys like that built the heart of this program back in the 80s and 90s. Pat Jones would find diamonds in the rough at tryouts, kids from small Oklahoma towns who would run through a wall for a chance to wear the orange. Now we bring in 50 portal transfers and the walk on is a dying breed. The staff probably doesnt even know where the practice squad locker room is anymore. You had kids who would stay for five years, redshirt, scout team, special teams, eventually earn a start as a fifth year senior. That was loyalty. That was grit. Now a kid walks on, gets a cup of coffee, and transfers to Tulsa or Central Arkansas the second he doesnt see the field. The whole culture of earning your spot through sweat and blood and late nights in the weight room is gone. Replaced by a spreadsheet and a bag of NIL cash. Makes me sick.