Turnover margin as a great equalizer? That's a cute theory, but it sounds like someone forgetting the 2005 Mineral Water Bowl where we forced five turnovers and still lost because you can't rely on luck. I've watched this game since Schurig was dropping back for the Ichabods, and sustainable advantages are built in the trenches, not on fluke interceptions. You mention your secondary returning, but I remember when the MIAA had real defenses, like our '87 unit that would have picked apart a system built on hoping for mistakes. Ball security doesn't win championships, line play does. And don't get me started on the portal circus you mentioned, that's the whole problem. Your coach is probably grabbing kids who will leave in a year, while we used to build men who stayed. That ESPN mock draft is just more proof the sport has lost its soul, worrying about who leaves early instead of who stays and builds something. Your +8 last year? We had seasons like that under Coach Collins, and you know what it got us without a dominant running game? A nice stat and a .500 record. You can't blueprint a season on hoping the other team hands you the ball.