You want my honest opinion on these recruiting rankings and newcomer lists ESPN is churning out? I will tell you straight up those lists are worthless for measuring what Alabama football is about. Coach Stallings used to say you build a program in the weight room and the film room not on some website and he was right. Back in the 1992 season we had a bunch of two-star kids who nobody wanted and they went out and shut down that Miami team in the Sugar Bowl when everybody said we had no business being there. These new transfer kids coming in are all fine and good but I want to see them earn it in August when the pads pop not when they sign a piece of paper in June. The whole system is backwards now where these kids get their NIL money before they ever take a snap in Bryant-Denny Stadium and you wonder why loyalty is dead. I remember when we had walk-ons who would bleed cimson for four years just to get a shot on special teams and now kids transfer out the second they are not starting by week three. This 2026 class might have some talent but I will believe it when I see them hold up against LSU in November not when some ESPN writer puts them on a list in the summer time.