You're clinging to a fantasy that never paid the bills. That walk-on dreaming on Tartan Field? Under this new model, he gets a real shot somewhere else instead of rotting on your scout team for four years. Loyalty went one way, from the player to a program that could cut his scholarship on a whim. Now the power is balanced. Those fifty transfers at Oklahoma State? That's fifty kids getting a second chance to play, fifty families seeing their son find a better fit. You call them mercenaries, I call them athletes finally in control of their careers. The "soul" of a program isn't built by unpaid labor. It's built by winning, and winning today requires using every tool available. While you're romanticizing the past, we're in the portal building a roster that can compete right now. Development still happens, it just might happen at a different school. The heartbeat of the locker room is still the guys who show up and work, but now they're properly valued. Your nostalgia is just jealousy masked as principle. The game eovlved. Adapt or get left behind wishing for a helmet and a dream that mostly ended with an empty shelf and no degree.