It’s the same story every single offseason. We grind, we work, we put guys in the league, and the national conversation just skips right over us. I just saw that ESPN piece where college coaches are picking NFL draft sleepers, and they listed out like twenty-five different programs. Twenty-five. Illinois, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Duke, Northwestern. All of them got a mention. But us? Not a word. Not a single Lincoln Lion is even in the conversation as a sleeper. What does a program have to do to get a little respect around here? We produce talent. We always have. Guys come through here, get developed, and go on to have careers. But the second the draft rolls around, it’s like we don’t exist unless we have some top-ten pick. The focus is always on the same fiften power programs. It’s a closed circle. They talk about scheme changes and pressure rates at Texas, they drool over the raw athletes at Miami. This is why the portal and NIL are so critical for us right now. We can’t just sit back and hope the national media decides to pay attention. We have to force them to. When I see Oklahoma State bringing in fifty transfers or Colorado stacking a 43-man portal class, I don’t see chaos. I see a blueprint. Aggression. You have to make noise to be heard. We need to be that aggressive. We need to be hunting for those under-the-radar transfers who have something to prove, the same way our players always have. Because the traditional recruiting rankings? They’ve had us stuck in the 80s for years. That’s not a reflection of our coaching or our culture. It’s a reflection of a system that doesn’t bother to look. So while everyone else is talking about Oregon’ QB battle or how many five-stars Georgia hauled in, we’re in spring practice building something real. We’re integrating our own portal guys, we’re developing the players who chose to be here, and we’re creating the kind of team that wins...