man, this reeks of someone whose program got left behind and now wants to lecture everybody about "the good old. we're building something biger at wheaton, and yeah, the landscape is changing, but that doesn't mean tradition is dead. our rivalry with north central, that's as real as it gets, conference realignment or not. you think our guys playing in the mccully stadium trenches are "mercenaries"? they're our guys, buying into a culture that wins and graduates men of character. that "sacred calendar" you're crying about mostly just meant your team knew its place. we're competing at a national level in the cciw, and we aim to keep doing that no matter what the structure looks like. the soul of the sport isn't in static schedules, it's in the communities that show up every saturday. our fans, our students, they don't show up for a "revenue stream," they show up for the thunder. maybe if your cobbers had focused on building a winner that could adapt instead of just clinging to nostalgia, you wouldn't be so bitter. we're not selling anything, we're building a legacy that can thrive in any era, and last i checked.