Just saw ESPN spent months on that best players by jersey number list and I guarantee you they skimmed right past TCU like we didn't exist before 2010. I sat in those bleachers at Amon G. Carter in the 80s watching guys who would have never dreamed of jumping in the portal after one bad practice. You think any of those kids today would have survived two-a-days in August with Coach Fran running things? They would have been in the transfer portal before Labor Day weekend.
The portal killed everything we built. I remember when we had to develop a kid for three years before he saw the field and he was grateful for it. Now these kids show up in fall camp and if they are not starting by week three they are gone to some other program promising them the world. Oklahoma State brought in 50 transfers and Colorado got 43. That is not building a program that is just renting players for a season. You cannot build chemistry that way. You cannot build loyalty that way.
The game was better when you had to earn your stripes. When you sat behind a senior for two years and learned the system. When you actually cared about the name on the front of the jersey not just the NIL deal on the back. But nobody wants to hear that from an old man yelling at the clouds.