You watch ESPN put out their award candidate lists for every team and I just think about the walk ons we used to develop. Back in the 1990s under Coach Stallings we had kids who showed up for a chance to earn a spot, not for a bag of cash and a promise of playing time. They practiced against the starters every Tuesday and Thursday, made the whole unit tougher, and some of them became legends. Now you got kids entering the portal the second they dont win a job in spring ball. Nobody wants to grind anymore. They want instant gratification and a revenue share check. The walk on culture built the backbone of this program for decades and we are losing it to this transactional nonsense. That defensive lineman working his way back from injury in that Yahoo article, that is the kind of kid I respect. The one who stays, who fights, who doesnt pack his bags the first time things get hard. We used to have whole units of those kids. Now we are lucky to have a handful.