This is exactly the kind of arrogance that gets teams beat. You talk about building your guys, but I watched Barry Alvarez build a program from nothing with discipline and toughness, and even he knew you had to aapt. The game has changed, whether we like it or not. Sitting back and pretending the portal doesn't exist is how you end up like our 2018 team that got out-athleted by everyone. Remember when we had Russell Wilson? That was a transfer, and it won us the Big Ten. You think Ron Dayne just fell out of the sky? You develop talent, absolutely, but you also go get it when you need it. This isn't the 1999 Big Ten anymore, where you could just line up and run iso all day. Those days are gone. If you ignore the tools available, you're not building a real program, you're building a museum piece. We tried the "ignore the portal" approach a few years back and watched our depth chart get thin. You need a mix, like the 2011 team had. Pure stubbornness is a losing strategy.