You watch Oregon load up on five star recruits and all these programs throwing money around like it is nothing and I just think about the 1980 team when Herschel Walker picked us because he believed in what Coach Dooley was building. We had no NIL bag back then, just a handshake and a promise that you would play betweeen the hedges. These kids today are auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder and calling it a business decision. I saw where we are sitting outside the top spot in the 2027 recruiting rankings and you know what I do not care. Give me the kid who grew up wanting to wear the red and black, not the one who took a six figure deal from some collective and will transfer out the second things get tough. The portal and the cash grab have turned recruiting into a circus and I hate every bit of it.