ESPN drops their 100 days until Week 0 piece and I see Oregon vs Georgia for the CFP favorite and all this talk about who has the flashiest roster. You know what that piece does not mention? What built this program in the first place. Back in the 1980 season under Coach Dooley, we did not have 5-star rankings or NIL collectives. We had Herschel running behind a line of farm boys who worked the offseason on tractors not in weight rooms with nutritionists. That 1980 team had something you cannot buy in the portal. It had continuity. It had a quarterbcak who took snaps for four years and a defense that knew each other's tendencies because they had been in the same system since they were freshmen.
Now I watch Oklahoma State bring in 50 transfers and Colorado stack 43 new faces and everyone calls it "bold roster building." I call it panic. You cannot build chemistry in spring practice. You cannot replicate what happens when a group of 18 year olds grow up together in the same p...