ESPN puts out their award candidate lists and their offseason rankings and I just think back to the 1998 Sun Bowl squad that nobody gave a chance. We built teams back then with players who actually wanted to be here not guys shopping their services to the highest bidder every December. NIL has turned this whole thing into a free agent marketplace and I hate what it has done to the sport. You cannot buy chemistry in the transfer portal no matter how much money you throw at it.