Gets me riled up more than anythng? Seeing Oregon sitting there with five 5-star recruits in their 2027 class while we are grinding at number 24 in the ESPN rankings and everybody acts like that is just the natural order of things now. It is not natural. None of this is natural. I remember when you built a program by finding the kid who got overlooked, the farm boy from Platteville who worked the fields before two-a-days, the walk-on who had something to prove. Barry Alvarez did not go out and buy a roster. He went into living rooms and looked fathers in the eye and said your son is going to be a Badger and he is going to earn every snap he touches. That meant something. That meant loyalty. That meant a kid would sit through a 1-10 season and come back the next year because he believed in what we were building. Now you got these 17-year-olds with handlers and NIL agents and they are committing to Oregon because some booster promised them a truck deal before they even took a snap of varsity football. It is a joke. I watched the 1993 team go into the Horseshoe and beat Ohio State with a roster full of kids that nobody else wanted. Ron Dayne was a three-star. Jim Leonhard walked on and became an All-American. That does not happen anymore because the system is rigged for the schools with the biggest checkbooks. And the worst part is the NCAA sat there and let it happen. They could have stopped this years ago. They could have kept some semblance of amateur athletics alive. Instead they opened the floodgates and now we are watching programs like Indiana win a natty by buying a roster through the portal and nobody blinks. I am not saying we should not adapt. I understand the game has changed. But do not sit there and tell me that Oregon's five 5-stars are going to have the same heart and the same grit as the kids we used to put on the field. You cannot buy chemistry. You cannot buy the bond that forms when a group of overlooked kids decides they are going to prove everybody wrong. That is what made Wisconsin football special. That is what I miss. And I do not know if we will ever get it back.