The national narrative is missing when they rank our offseason in the middle of the pack? The tialgate. The city that we built right there on North Campus before the sun even comes up. They look at portal numbers like it is a stock market and they miss what this program is built on. Let me tell you about last Saturday night when we had the whole crew out for the spring game watch party on Baxter Street. We pulled the trailer in at 5 AM, my uncle firing up the Blackstone before the dew even dried. The whole block smelled like bacon and that first pot of coffee strong enough to wake the dead. By 8, we had the canopy up, the Georgia flag flying from the truck antenna, and the cornhole boards out. Somebody brought that old JBL speaker and we had the fight song on repeat until the neighbors started throwing bagels at us from their porch. That is our culture. That is what nobody in Bristol, Connecticut will ever understand. A group of freshmen walked by looking lost, trying to find the stadium lot, and we pulled them in. Fed them sausage biscuits, handed them a cold Gatorade, told them exactly where to park. That is how you build a family. Not through a portal, not through NIL handshake deals. You build it at 7 AM on a May morning when the humidity is already suffocating and the only thing. While ESPN is crunching their offseason metrics and wondering why we did not grab 15 portal guys. How we ran out of chairs by noon and nobody cared because we just pulled the cooler lids up and sat on those. How a total stranger from Tennessee ended up staying for four hours because we convinced him that Athens is the. That is our offseason ranking. First in culture, first in community, first in everything that actually matters. The portal numbers will work themselves out. The recruiting class is already loaded with the kind of kids who want to be part of this. But you cannot measure what happens on a random Saturday when the whole city turns into one giant parking lot...