Wait so Mel Kiper drops his final Big Board and has Sonny Styles as a top prospect and three of. I have been watching this draft year coverage all spring and it is becoming impossible to ignore the pattern. Our guys are everywhere on these boarsd. Arvell Reese getting the recognition he deserves, Sonny Styles being talked about as one of the best players in the. Meanwhile the rest of the conference is watching their best players get drafted in rounds three through five while we. The thing people outside the program do not understand is that this is not an accident. This is what happens when you have a culture that develops players at every single position group year in and year out. We do not have one good class and then fall off. We reload. Every single time. Indiana had their moment with Fernando Mendoza carrying them to a title run and now he is leaving for the. That is not a program that sustains dominance. That is a program that caught lightning in a bottle and is now watching it fade. Oregon can stack all the five star croots they want in their 2026 class and that is impressive I am not going to deny it. But the difference between flashy recruiting rankings and actual program building is that we have been doing this for decades. We are not a new player trying to figure out how to win. We are the standard. Every single year we are in the conversation for the conference title and the national title and that consistency is. Spring practice has been quiet and that is exactly how we like it. No drama. No chaos. Just six new defensive starters getting worked into a system that has been proven to produce NFL talent at every level. The rest of the conference is dealing with portal turmoil and coaching changes and roster overhauls and we are just.