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You see ESPN dropping these "under-the-radar players" lists for the top 25 teams and I just shake my head. Back in the early 80s when we were packing Yager Stadium for the Ichabods homecoming game against Pittsburg State, you knew every kid on that roster by the third week of the season because they stuck around for four years and earned their stripes. These lists they put out now are full of names that will be in the portal by October. Hard to get attached to a player when they are just rent...

You all can keep hyping these 43-transfer portal classes and these spring practice battles where nobody knows who is even on the roster week to week. It just makes me think back to the old days when the bowl games actually meant something. I remember sitting in the stands at the 1988 Mineral Water Bowl watching our Ichabods grind out a 17-14 win over a tough team and every single guy on that field had been in the program for three or four years. You knew their names, you knew their stories, you watched them grow from freshmen into men. Now we got kids suiting up for three different schools in three years and nobody even knows what a real bowl game looks like anymore. The MIAA had real bowl tie-ins back then and you played for the pride of your school not for whatever NIL bag was waiting in the portal. I miss the days when you earned a bowl trip by winning games in November not by having the biggest checkbook in the transfer window.

Just saw that CBS Sports article about FCS not producing a single first three round draft pick for the first time since 1978 and it makes my blood boil. I remember when Washburn would send guys to the NFL out of the MIAA and it meant something because they earned it grinding in front of 4,000 fans at Yager Stadium in November. Now every kid with a pulse transfers up to the FBS the second they get a highlight tape and the whole lower division system is getting hollowed out. We used to have real rivalries with Pittsburg State and Northwest Missouri where both sides had NFL caliber talent. Now those kids are gone before they ever play a meaningful conference game. The portal killed the soul of programs like ours and nobody in the NCAA cares because the money is all at the top.

Wait so Charlie Baker says the new eligibility rules won't be retroactive for guys who already graduated or exhausted their eligibility. Of course not. The NCAA waits until after the damage is done to change the rules. Reminds me of when the MIAA expanded back in the 90s and t...

NIL turned every roster into a free agent market and loyalty died with it

You see Clemson putting nine guys in the draft this weekend and still only winning seven games last season, and I think back to the late 90s when Washburn had a stretch where we sent three guys to the league over five years and Coach Schuler got us to the playoffs twice with w...

You see Nebraska dropping $600 million on Memorial Stadium and I just think about the old days when Washburn would pack Yager Stadium for the rivalry game against Emporia State and the only thing we needed was a full cooler and a good tailgate spot. These programs are spending like crazy on facilities and portal rentals, but they will never recreate what it felt like when we beat Pitt State in 1994 on a last second field goal in the freezing rain. The MIAA rivalries had real hatred, real stak...

You hear about Oklahoma State bringing in 50 transfers and Colorado bringing in 43 and everybody calls it bold and innovative. I call it desperation. Back in the late 90s when we were building something at Washburn under Coach Schuler, we did it with high school kids we watched for years. Kids who wanted to be Ichabods. You cannot build chemistry when half your roster has never been in the same weight room together. These programs are just renting talent for one season and hoping it sticks. The 1998 squad that put three guys into the league? We had 22 seniors who had been together since they were freshmen. That is how you build a program, not by raiding the portal like it is a shopping mall.

You watch these spring games now and it is all about which five-star freshman looks good in a scrimmage jersey, which transfer QB won the job in three weeks. Back when I started watching Washburn in the early 80s, recruiting meant Coach Schuler driving six hours to some tiny Kansas town to sit in a kid's living room and talk to his parents about what kind of man he was going to become. You built relationships over years, not NIL handshake deals over a weekend. This Notre Dame Blue-Gold game stuff looks fun and all, but these kids are on their third school before they even play a down of meaningful football. The whole system is built backwards now. You used to earn the right to wear the unifrom. Now you just pick the best offer off a spreadsheet and show up for spring ball. We lost something real when we stopped caring about loyalty.

Watching all these spring games and transfer portal moves and I just keep going back to what Coach Schuler used to tell us back in the late 80s. You cannot buy toughness. You cannot portal your way into knowiing how to block down on a 3-technique when the game is on the line in the fourth quarter against Northwest Missouri. All these programs bringing in 35 new faces and acting like they are building something. They are building a collection of talent, not a team. There is a difference and you...

Sitting here watching the NFL Draft coverage and seeing all these SEC guys go off the board, and it gets me thinking about what we've lost in this sport. Everybody wants to talk about five-star recruiting hauls and portal classes, but nobody appreciates the option offense anymore. I remember back in the late 80s when we had that Washburn offense under Coach Bachman, and we ran that triple option out of the wishbone like it was going out of style. And you know what? It was beautiful. Three backs in the backfield, the quarterback reading the end every single snap, nobody knowing who had the ball until it was too late. That 1991 season when we ran for over 300 yards in four straight games against MIAA competition, that was football the way it was meant to be played. You didn't need a quarterback throwing for 4,000 yards and a dozen different receiver sets. You needed a fullback who could take a pounding between the tackles, a quarterback who could make the right read on the option pitch, and a couple of speedsters on the outside who could take it the distance when the defense got too aggressive. The old Nebraska teams under Tom Osborne, the way they ran that option to perfection, that was art. Now everything is spread formations and RPOs and quarterbacks checking into different plays at the line of scrimmage. You watch these spring games now and it's all seven-on-seven drills and pass skelly. Nobody runs the option anymore. Nobody teaches the mesh point, the pitch timing, the way the dive back has to sell his block to freeze the linebacker. These kids coming up through the portal don't know what a true option pitch looks like. They've never had to make that split-second decision on whether to give, keep, or pitch. It's a lost art and it makes me sad. The option offense was about discipline and execution and trust in your teammates. You couldn't just transfer somewhere else if things got hard. You had to learn the reads, you had to earn the coaches' trust, you had to prove you could handle the pressure of making the right decision when a 250-pound defensive end was bbearing down on you. I know the game evolves and I know why coaches don't run it anymore. The passing game is more efficient, the rules favor the offense, all that stuff. But I miss the days when you could watch a team grind out a 17-14 win on the ground, running the option for 60 minutes, and feel like you'd watched a real football game. Not this track meet stuff they play now where every possession is a scoring drive and nobody plays defense until the NFL. Give me the old Washburn option attack any day of the week. That was real football.

You watch all these programs bringing in 43 transfers, 50 transfers, acting like they are building something special. But let me tell you about the real way to build a program. Back in the late 80s when Coach Lennie Sykes was at Washburn, we had walk-ons who would show up in August with nothing but a pair of cleats and a dream. They would run sprints in the August heat until they threw up. Then they would do it again the next day. And by the time they were seniors, they were starting on our defensive line against Pitt State in the rain. That is how you build a culture. Not by swiping right on the portal. Those kids earned every single snap. Now it is all about who can buy the best roster. Makes me sick.

Just saw that article about Oregon's recruiting class. All these five-star hauls and portal QBs, but they'll never know the feeling of earning a bowl bid the hard way. We used to fight for a spot in the Mineral Water Bowl or the Kanza Bowl, and it meant something. Now these kids just pick their destination from a menu before they've even played a down.

The ACC and Big Ten are just bloated leagues now, nothing like the old MIAA

They talk about Oklahoma State bringing in 50 portal guys like it's a strategy. That's not building a program, that's renting a team for one season. We had guys in the 90s who bled blue and gold for four years, not four months. This whole system is a mercenary league now, and it's gutting the soul of the game.

Spring ball used to be where walk-ons earned their shot. Now it's a portal showcase

Oklahoma State bringing in 50 portal guys reminds me of the old days when a coach like Dennis Franchione would build a program, not a fantasy team. That's not coaching, that's collecting trading cards.

Just saw the news about Washington State and Washington playing again. That's not a rivalry anymore, that's a forced corporate meeting. They killed the Apple Cup when they tore the Pac-12 apart. It reminsd me of when we had real, annual hate for teams like Pittsburg State and Emporia State. You circled that date on the calendar in July and the entire town felt different that week. Now these kids swap teams every year and have no idea what it means to build up that bitterness for 365 days. They'll play this game and some broadcaster will try to sell the "history," but the soul of it is gone. It's just another TV slot. Real rivalries are built on decades of bus rides and shared borders, not TV contracts.

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