I heard this same tired argument back when they started letting underclassmen declare for the draft early. The system wasn't broken then and it isn't broken now. It's just different. You think Bear Bryant didn't have to manage egos and playing time? He had to convince Joe Namath to share snaps with Steve Sloan, for crying out loud. The difference is these kids finally have some leverage and a say in their own careers, and that scares the old guard. We used to watch coaches hold kids hostage for four years, and if they dared transfer they had to sit out a season. That wasn't building men, that was enforcing indentured servitude. If a kid comes to Tuscaloosa, works his tail off in spring, and still gets passed on the depth chart, why shouldn't he have options? The great ones, the ones with the right stuff, they'll stay and fight like Cornelius Bennett did. The others? Let them go. We reload just fine. This isn't an auction, it's a free market, and Alabama has always recruited at the top of the market. If you can't keep your own players happy in this new era, that's a coaching problem, not a player problem. The soul of the game is fine. It's just that the soul now has a bank account and an agent, and I'd rather have those kids on our sideline than yours.