You want to know what really gets me going about this whole offseason talk? Its the complete disappearance of the walk on culture at Alabama. I remember when I was sitting in the stands at Legion Field back in 1989 and we had a kid from some little town nobody ever heard of who showed up to tryouts with nothing but a dream and a work ethic that would make you ashamed to complain about anything. That kid became a special teams legend and stayed for four years and never asked for a dime. Now everything is about who can bring the biggest NIL bag or which portal shopping spree lands the most five star names. Coach Stallings built championship teams off the backs of walk ons who wanted it more than the scholarship guys. The new CFP structure and the revenue sharing model and all this nonsense about the SEC Championship game being on the chopping block just tells me we have lost the soul of what made this program special. You cannot buy heart and you cannot portal your way into a kid who will bleed crimson because his daddy did and his granddaddy did before him. I miss the days when a walk on from a town of 500 people could earn a scholarship by pancaking a starter in August two a days. That is real football. That is Alabama football.