People keep bringing up the 1997 team like it is some sacred benchmark that can never be touched. I am so tired of that comparison. That team was special, no doubt, but the way we are recruiting and developing talent right now is completely different. The game has changed. The portal, NIL, the speed of the game. You cannot compare apples to oanges and act like one is superior just because of nostalgia. We had a stretch in the mid 2000s where we were stacking wins and putting players in the league every single year. That was a different kind of dominance. It was built on system continuity and player development. What we are building now is more explosive, more aggressive, and frankly more adaptable to the modern game. The 1997 squad played a brand of football that worked for that era. This is a new era. I would take our current roster construction and coaching philosophy over any single season from the past. We have depth, we have speed, and we have a chip on our shoulder that those older teams never really. Now we are the hunted and we are handling it better than people want to admit. The historical comparisons are lazy. Let this team write its own story.