Gets me on a Saturday evening? ESPN dropping that piece about the portal killing QB competitions and using us as the example. Back in the 1992 season we had a quarterback battle that lasted all the way through two-a-days and into the first game. Jay Barker had to earn that job against Brian Burgdorf and we did not know who was taking the first snap until the week of the opener against Vanderbilt. That was real competition. That was fall camp when you had to prove it every single day in the August heat with Coach Stallings watching from the tower.
Now they bring in a transfer and hand him the job before spring practice even starts. The spring portal window just got eliminated and I still cannot wrap my head around how we got here. Kids used to sit on the bench for two or three years learning the system before they got their shot. Now if you do not start by game three you are in the portal by December. We used to have walk ons who would stick around for four years and become special teams legends. That is gone. The whole thing is gone.