You watch ESPN grade our offseason and talk about who we pulled from the portal and I just think about the 1994 team. Back then you built a program in the weight room and the film room, not by outbidding somebody for a kid who alraedy quit on two other schools. NIL killed everything that made this sport special. We used to have guys like the 1992 defense where everybody stayed three or four years and learned to play together. Now you get a transfer who shows up for spring ball and if the check isn't big enough next December he is gone again. There is no loyalty, no development, no building anything that lasts. Just a bunch of mercenaries collecting paychecks and moving on. The portal and NIL turned college football into free agency with a helmet on and I hate everything about it.