This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'd expect from a Sooner or a Longhorn who never appreciated what real program building looks like. Fifty guys in the portal is the world we live in now, thanks to the rules they helped create. You call it a panic move, I call it adapting to a broken system. Coach Gundy isn't panicking, he's doing what he has to do to field a team. You think this is new? We lost a whole recruiting class to probation back in the day and still found a way to compete. This "can't develop talent" talk is laughable. The man developed Barry Sanders, Thurman Thomas, and more recently, Mason Rudolph and James Washington from three-star kids into legends. Development isn't the issue. The issue is that when you develop a guy now, some school with a bigger NIL bag swoops in and buys him away. That's not on coaching, that's on a sport that's lost its soul. Fire him? After one down year? That's how you become Nebraska. We had stability with Pat Jones and then with Les Miles, and Gundy has given us more than any coach in our history. You don't torch the barn because of one bad harvest. This overhaul is painful, but it's necessary. The kids jumping ship for a quick payday aren't the kind of Cowboys we built this program with anyway. We'll find the guys who want to be here, just like we always have.
