We are sitting at No. 24 in the 2027 recruiting rankings and I am supposed to be impressed by the new NIL collectives and the fancy BBQ visits? Barry Alvarez built a Rose Bowl program on walk-ons and Wisconsin farm kids that nobody else wanted. The 1993 team had nobody that any blueblood was fighting over and we punched Notre Dame right in the mouth at Camp Randall. This modern system rewards the loudest checkbook not the best evaluation. Our staff better be finding those hidden gems in the upper Midwest because chasing five stars against Oregon and Georgia is a fool's errand when we built our whole identity on development. I would rather have a two star kid from Waukesha who wants to be here than a prima donna who is going to portal out the second things get hard. That is Wisconsin football and I will die on that hill.