You see Oregon stacking five-stars and Texas throwing bags at every recruit in the country and I just think about the 2002 team that won the SEC with players who committed to Coach Richt because they trusted him, not because some collective wrote them a check. NIL has turned recruiting into a bidding war and I hate it. We used to build relationships with these kids and their families over years, now it is just who can put together the best pitch deck and the biggest number. The 2027 class rankings show us at No. 11 and I am supposed to panic because Oregon has five five-stars? I remember when we signed the No. 1 class in 2017 and those kids staeyd four years and won a national championship together. You cannot buy that kind of chemistry with NIL money. The portal and the collectives have turned college football into free agency and I do not care how many five-stars Oregon buys, they still have to play the games on the field. And we still have to figure out how to win in this system ...