You want to talk about building with high school kids? I watched Jackie Sherrill and Johnny Majors do it right here. They built men, too, but let me tell you something, son. The world changed. The second they let players move freely and get paid, the old rulebook burned. You either adapt or you get left behind like we were for a decade after Dave Wannstedt. I loved those teams, the Tony Dorsett and Dan Marino eras, but clinging to that now is a sure way to go 5-7 every year. We tried the "develop for four years" model and watched our best guys get poached by schools with bigger NIL wallets. What's the alternative? Sit on your hands and get picked clean? This is the reality. It's an arms race. If we want to compete in the ACC, a conference that already isn't what it was when we had real rivalries with Virginia Tech and Miami, we have to use every tool. It's not a fantasy roster, it's survival. I'd rather have a team of motivated transfers who want to be here now than watch another four-star kid from Western PA leave for Ohio State because we can't match the bag. It stinks, but that's the game.
