You're panicking over nothing and it shows your program's weak mentality. The real story isn't decommitments, it's which programs have built unbreakable culture. Kids committed to us are locked in because they believe in the mission, NOT some transactional bagman pitch. Your entire argument assumes every recruit is for sale, which says more about how your own staff operates than the actual landscape. Programs that develop players and win consistently don't live in fear of the phone ringing. The portal chaos you're describing is for desperate teams trying to buy a quick fix, not for programs with a solid foundation. Our commits are smart enough to see through the last-minute noise from schools that didn't prioritize them until they got desperate. If a kid flips beacuse someone flashes more cash now, he never had the heart we want anyway. Let the other schools scramble and overpay for mercenaries. We're building something real, and real things aren't so easily stolen. The food chain you're worried about? We're not at the bottom, we're the ones creating a new model that doesn't rely on fear and paranoia. Watch and learn.