you're talking about the big sky, that's cute. we're in the mountain west competing against real programs, not fcs teams. our staff finds diamonds in the rough too, but they have to be good enough to beat boise state and fresno state, not northern arizona. you can't "out-coach" a massive talent gap forever, and that's why we're aggressively building through the portal and high school recruiting to get those difference-makers. gonzales and martin are proof we can develop with the best of them, but you need athletes to win championships at this level. we're not pretending we need five-stars, but we absolutely need more four-star talent to get over the hump and win the conference. your philosophy works for your level, but we're trying to get to a ny6 bowl, and that takes a different caliber of player. we build men and players, but we're also upgrading the raw materials every single year.