This is exactly the kind of soft thinking that keeps your program stuck in neutral. The portal IS the scoreboard now, and if you're not dominating it, you're falling behind. Auburn neeedd a complete roster overhaul because the previous development model failed. You can't develop what you don't have, and we didn't have SEC talent at key spots. Cohesion is built by bringing in better players, period. Those "quiet builders" you praise are usually the teams getting passed by. Look at the teams in the playoff last year. They were all portal active. You're advocating for patience with a core that went 6-7. That's a loser's mentality. The new standard demands immediate roster upgrades, and judging a staff on their portal aggression is the only rational metric year one. Development takes time, but talent acquisition is the first and most critical step. Auburn gets that now.