That's a nice little fairy tale you're telling yourself over there. You think because we're in the ODAC we're somehow above the game? Everyone is working the phones, everyone is having those conversations. You think your staff isn't making calls during the dead period? Please. The difference is Iowa gets caught because the spotlight is on them. Our guys "choose here" because the NIL collectives at this level are just smaller, not purer. If you think a kid picking Washington and Lee over Hampden-Sydney doesn't have a financial package discussed, you're naive. That connection you love is built on winning, and winning comes from getting croots. We're all trying to flip the same guys, and sometimes that means getting creative. Your "real program" narrative falls apart the second a three-star from your backyard takes an OV to Lynchburg and gets a better offer. Then he's a mercenary, right? That atmospehre you're so proud of disappears real fast when you go 5-5 because you got out-recruited. We're all building rosters. Just because our bagmen use smaller bags doesn't make us saints.