Eighty-one scholarship players left Big Ten rosters during the two weeks the portal was open in April, and the conference took in nearly as many. Oregon and Penn State lost nine apiece. That is one conference in one window, and it is now the ordinary rhythm of the sport rather than a crisis in it. Michigan is worth looking at only because its offseason was the most compressed. Dusty May left for the Dallas Mavericks on June 22, weeks after winning a national championship, and

Sports, man. What a game. And yes — coaching matters. Leadership matters. Previously, I wrote that “if you want to win championships, you need to build a championship culture — on purpose.” The 2025–26 Indiana Hoosiers just demonstrated that lesson with a clarity that should force every athletic director, business leader, and sports fan to recalibrate their thinking about what winning really takes. They didn’t just get better players. They didn’t just get richer boosters. The