Wait so the NFL Draft just wrapped with 87 SEC guys taken and all I can think about is how we used to recruit kids out of the Arkansas high school ranks. Back in the 80s Coach Ford would load up the bus and go watch a kid from Pine Bluff run the wishbone in a muddy field and that was your scouting report. No portal no NIL no nothing. You offered that kid a scholarship and he stayed four years because his mama raised him right and he wanted to be a Razorback.
Now we got 87 SEC players drafted and half of them started their careers somewhere else. The whole thing makes me sick. You cannot tell me the product is better when kids are swapping jerseys every December like they are trading baseball cards. I miss when a recruit meant something more than a price tag.