Three years of ESPN doing these under-the-radar player lists and every single spring they pick the same type of guy for us. Some walk-on linebacker who worked his way up or a tight end nobody outside Iowa City has heard of. And you know what? I love it. We are the land of forgotten recruits who become All-Big Ten performers. That is our entire identity and nobody in the national media seems to understand that is by design not by accident. Kinnick Stadium is the loudest environment in college football during a night game and ESPN writes it off as cute. You want to talk about udner-the-radar? Try being under the radar when 70,000 people are waving and making your eardrums bleed. Our stadium atmosphere doesn't need your listicles to validate what we already know. We built that noise with walk-ons and three-star recruits who stayed in the program for five years. The rest of the sport is chasing quick fixes through the portal and flashy recruiting rankings. We are over here developing kids the old way and winning games in November because our guys actually know the system. That is what makes Kinnick special. Every single snap matters because we grind everything out.