How a 20-year-old got arrested for shooting Ahmad Hardy and Missouri fans are still strutting around like they own the conference? That kid is lucky to be alive and I am glad they caught the guy but the real story here. Hardy is a special talent no question but let us not pretend one player makes a program. We have seen this movie before. A team catches lightning in a bottle with a transfer portal star and the fanbase starts talking about dynasties. Meanwhile we are in the dead period grinding in voluntary workouts and building the kind of depth that wins in November not September. Nobody remembers the running back who got shot in April when they are freezing in Jordan-Hare in late October. That is what these Missouri fans do not get. We have been through the portal carnage and the coaching changes and the NIL chaos and we are still standing. We are not a program built on one player or one class. We are built on the foundation of guys who have been in the system for two and three years now. Let them have their preseason hype. We will be there in December when the real games matter.