The entire concept of a locker room is dead. You see these stories about Oklahoma State bringing in fifty transfers or Colorado with foryt-three new faces, and I just think back to our 2003 team that went 10-2. Those guys bled for each other for four years. They knew what it meant to wear the jersey because they built it from the ground up. Now? It's a hotel lobby. A kid has a bad spring practice and he's in the portal before the Gatorade coolers are put away. They talk about "mindset shifts" like it's some new-age therapy, but the real shift is from commit to convenience. Bryce Underwood breaks a record at 18 and the first thing people talk about is his mindset after a loss, not the seniors who helped him get there. Those seniors are probably at three different schools by now. Alabama is choosing between Austin Mack and Keelon Russell, two guys who probably haven't even shared a full offseason together. How do you build trust? How do you have any institutional memory? The portal hasn't just changed rosters, it's erased the soul of a program. We used to have captains who led for years. Now we have rental players leading group chats. It's a disgrace.