Pat McAfee can sit there and defend Kirby Smart all he wants about the Big Ten having an edge, but the real story is what NIL has done to this sport. You watch Notre Dame swoop in and land a 2027 receiver over some Big Ten program and it is just another reminder that loyalty means nothing anymore. Back in the 1990s when we were building those Rose Bowl teams, you recruited a kid and he stayed because he wanted to wear the Wisconsin jersey, not because some collective promised him a better dea...