You're talking about identity and cohesion like we invented it. Let me tell you something, we built this program on junior college transfers and overlooked kids long before the portal was a glimmer in some administrator's eye. Coach Pat Jones used to bring in guys from every corner of the map and mold them into a team. That 1988 team that went 10-2? Loaded with transfers who bought in because they were given a chance. This idea that you can only build trust with four-year guys is nostalgia talking. Real trust is built on the field in August, not in a dorm room over four years. If fifty guys want to come to Stillwater to play for this staff and wear that orange, then we'll teach them the Cowboy way just like we taught Leslie O'Neal or Thurman Thomas. You think those legends didn't have to earn the trust of the guys who were already here? They did, and they became brothers. This staff knows how to develop men, whether they've been here one year or four. While you're clinging to some romantic idea of the past, we're adapting and finding players who want to be here now. The game has changed, but our ability to build a team from hungry players hasn't. We'll see who's laughing when that new-look defense is flying around Boone Pickens Stadium come fall.