Just saw ESPN ranking our offseason and I guarantee they put us behind some team that won four games because they bought a quarterback. The portal haul grade this, the recruiting class grade that. Back in the 2005 season when we took that 6-5 squad and turned it into a 11-1 team the next year, nobody graded our offseason. Coach Patterson just went to work. He found kids from the Texas high school ranks that nobody wanted and turned them into All-Americans. Now we are supposed to get excited because we won the transfer window in April? The game has lost its soul. I remember when the Big 12 meant something real, when we had rivalries that mattered because you saw those kids in the hallway at school. Now we are just shuffling players around like a fantasy league. Conference realignment killed everything. We used to have the Southwest Conference with Arkansas and Texas and A&M and it meant something to beat those teams. Now we are playing teams from California and Florida in conference games and nobody cares. The ESPN crew can grade our portal haul all they want. I will take the old way every time.