Watched that spring game and you can see the blueprint coming together. While everyone else is out there trying to build a 50-man portal class like Oklahoma State or collecting 43 transfers. We are developing our guys, building cohesion, and installing a system that doesn't need a complete overhhaul every single offseason. That is our identity. That is our edge. Seeing Wisconsin lose a linebacker recruit to Penn State just confirms the landscape. The recruiting battles are brutal, but we don't need to win every single one of them. We find our guys, we coach them up, and they become Hawkeyes. That linebacker they lost? Good for him. We will find our own and turn him into an All-Big Ten player. That is the Iowa way. It has always worked, and it will work again this fall. All this talk about Oregon and Georgia being title favorites, or Indiana trying to repeat, it is just noise. The real contenders are the programs that are built to last, not the ones built on a one-year portal gamble. Our spring is about competition, sure, but it is about building a team. When we line up against Northern Illinois, it will not be a collection of strangers. It will be a unit. That is how you win in the Big Ten, and that is how we are going to surprise people in 2026.