Just saw that Yahoo piece talking about Big 12 sleepers and it made me sick. Sleepers? The whole league is just a collection of mercenaries now. I remember when you built a sleeper through development, like we did with that 2009 team that went to the Fiesta Bowl. Andy Dalton wasn't a five-star, he was a leader who grew for four years.
Now you just go shopping. Oklahoma State bringing in 50 transfers? Colorado with 43? It's a garage sale, not a football program. Coach Franchione, Coach Patterson, they taught system and loyalty. You learned the playbook, you earned the trust of the guy next to you. Now these kids show up in May with a price tag and expect to start. What are we even building? A roster for one season?
This new NIL revenue sharing cap they're talking about, it doesn't fix the rot. It just puts a number on the auction. The soul of the game died when it became a bidding war. I'd take a team of two-star guys who bled purple over a locker room of rented superstars any day of the week. We used to be proud of that.