Kills me about ESPN's offseason rankings they just dropped? They grade us on the portal haul like that means something. Back in the 90s we built this program through the Southwest Conference wars with kids who committed because they wanted to wear the purple, not because some collective put together a better PowerPoint presentation. Gary Patterson built the 2010 Rose Bowl team with three-star kids who stayed four years and developed. Now we are supposed to get excited about a bunch of mercenaries who will bolt the second somebody offers them a better NIL deal. The portal eliminated the spring window and somehow we are still treating roster churn like its a good thing. I watched us beat Wisconsin in the 2011 Rose Bowl with a roster full of homegrown kids. That team had something you cannot buy with NIL money. It had loyalty. It had pride. It had guys who bled purple. And ESPN wants to tell me our offseason grade depends on how many transfers we landed. I will take the 2005 squad that nobody believed in over any of these rented rosetrs. Every single time.