You want to know what that Yahoo piece on our defense dominating the spring game actually tells me? It tells me we still have a coaching staff that understands how to develop players the hard way, through real competition and spring reps, not by raiding the portal for mercenaries who will cash a check and leave after one semester. That defensive line getting into the backfield, those linebackers showing depth, that is what haappens when you build a program the old-fashioned way. But you know what is going to happen? Some SEC program with a bag full of NIL cash is going to come poach our best defensive lineman the second the winter window opens because loyalty means nothing anymore. The 2001 Rose Bowl team had defensive players who bled crimson for four years, who would have never dreamed of leaving for a bigger paycheck. Now we are just a farm system for the Alabamas of the world and it makes me sick watching us develop talent that will never wear the uniform in November.