You watch these 2027 recruiting rankings come out and we are sitting there in the middle of the pack while Notre Dame is loading up top 300 prospects and I just think back to the 1994 Rose Bowl team. We did not need a top five recruiting class to punch people in the mouth. We had Joe Panos and Mike Verstegen who developed in the weight room over three years not in a transfer portal window. The whole sport has forgotten that toughness is built in January not bought in June. I do not care how many stars a kid has next to his name. I care if he can move a defensive end off the line of scrimmage in the fourth quarter when the wind is blowing at Camp Randall. That is what made us Wisconsin. Not a BBQ visit with a fancy NIL pitch.