You sit there watching these programs bring in 43 and 50 transfers and I just think back to the walk ons we used to develop. Coach Patterson built this program on kids who showed up uninvited and earned every single snap. Remember the early 2000s when we had walk ons starting in the secondary and they played like their lives depended on it because they knew what it cost to get there? Now everybody wants the shortcut through the portal and nobody wants to grind on scout team for two years before they see the field. The walk on culture is dead and that is a tragedy because that is how you build real toughness. We had kids who would rather die than lose their spot to some mercenary who showed up for a bag of NIL cash.