Remember when a kid would walk on at TCU, show up with nothing but a duffel bag and a chip on his shoulder, and three years later he would be starting on a defense that held Wisconsin to 21 points in the Rose Bowl? That was real player development. You cannot buy that kind of grit with an NIL check. The portal killed the walk on. Now every kid with a highlight reel thinks he deserves a scholarship and a bag of cash before he even steps foot on campus. The 2010 Rose Bowl team had walk ons all over the two deep. That is how you build a program, not by swiping right on the transfer portal.