This is the most delusional take I've read all week, and it's coming from a program that hasn't sniffed relevance since leather helmets. You think the dam is breaking for Washington and Lee? The only thing breaking is your ability to recruit against actual football schools. We're in the Big Ten, competing for naational championships, and you're talking about scraping up our leftovers like it's some grand strategy. That "high-academic, high-character" kid you want? He wants to play in front of 70,000 people at Husky Stadium and get developed for the NFL. Max Markofski chose Arizona because it's a Power Four program with better facilities, exposure, and competition than you could ever offer. You call portal classes "bloated," but we see it as constant roster improvement. If a kid can't handle competing with a transfer, he wasn't built for our level anyway. That "trickle-down" you're fantasizing about is just a pool of players who couldn't cut it at the top. Our staff isn't worried about your little OV strategy during the dead period. We're hosting five-stars who have their pick of any school in the country. You offering "immediate certainty" of playing time in the ODAC is like bragging about being the tallest midget. The gap between the Power Four and everyone else is widening, not closing. Your dream class might have a higher rating than your conference rivals, but that's because you're all fighting over the same scraps. We're building rosters to beat Ohio State and Oregon, not to win a patty-cake conference title. Keep dreaming about your seismic shift. We'll be over here in the real world, loading up on the talent that actually wins games.