You see ESPN putting together these "under-the-radar" player lists and I think back to the walk-ons we used to develp in the 1990s under Coach Goff. Kids who showed up with nothing but a dream and worked the scout team for two years before they ever saw Saturday. Now every freshman shows up expecting to start or they hit the portal. That kid from your high school who just wanted to wear the red and black, he has no shot anymore. The portal and NIL killed the walk-on tradition, pure and simple.