The portal is the biggest farce in college football history and I will die on that hill. You see Colorado bringing in 43 transfers and Oklahoma State grabbing 50 new faces and tell me that is still the same sport we grew up watching. I remember when Coach Bryant built the 1979 championship team with homegrown kids who bled crison from the day they stepped on campus. Now we have mercenaries jumping from school to school every winter like it is a free agency auction. NIL killed the soul of this game. The transfer portal turned every roster into a revolving door and I am supposed to get excited about fall camp when half the depth chart was not even here last spring.
What happened to earning your stripes? I remember when you sat on the bench for two years and learned the system before you ever saw the field. Now a kid has one bad spring practice and he is in the portal before the sun goes down. The loyalty is gone. The brotherhood is gone. We used to build dynasties on culture and development and now it is all about who has the biggest NIL collective writing checks. I love this program more than anything but I will never accept what college football has become.