You're just mad because your program can't adapt. The portal is the great equalizer and it's exposing coaches who can't evaluate or develop talent. Oklahoma State is being smart, not sentimental. They're building a winner right now, not promising fans to wait four years for some high school kid to maybe pan out. That "brotherhood" you romanticize often just meant trapping kids in bad situations with no recourse. The portal gives players agency, and programs that whine about it are the ones losing the arms race. Culture isn't about how long someone sits in your locker room, it's about winning and a shared immediate purpose. These "mercenaries" play harder for a second chance than some legacy recruit ever did on entitlement. Your fear of change is a nostalgia for a system that benefited schools over students. The game's heart is fine, it's just beating faster now. Adapt or get left behind, permanently.