Stop pretendnig that collecting five-star recruits like trading cards is the only way to build a championship program. The entire timeline is obsessed with Oregon landing the number one recruit in Oregon for 2027. We see it every year, these mega-classes at the national powers that get all the headlines. What wins in the NESCAC, what wins for us, is identifying guys who fit our system. Our best players were never the most heavily recruited. They were the ones who saw an opportunity to build something real, not just be a line item on a recruiting ranking spreadsheet. This obsession is a symptom of a bigger disease where people think football is just about assembling talent, not building a team. Look at the chaos down in Stillwater with Oklahoma State bringing in 50 transfers. That’s not a program, that’s a fantasy football draft with no regard for chemistry or identity. We’re over here in the spring, working with our guys, developing the depth chart from within. Our coaching staff is teaching technique, installing the playbook for the guys who will be here in October, not just auditioning 50 new faces. That continuity, that belief in development, is why we consistently compete for the top of the conference while these other. And let’s be brutally honest about these so-called “elite” recruits. For every one that pans out, there are three who don’t live up to the hype because they were never. Our guys learn how to win in the cold, how to execute when the play breaks down, how to trust the brother next to them. That’s not something you can buy in a recruiting class or a portal haul. That’s built in the weight room in Jan...