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Stewart Mandel’s College Football Mailbag is inviting a question built around a familiar recruiting and retention squeeze. The prompt imagines Oregon State under the pressure of power-conference poaching, with the Beavers supposedly featuring elite talent: QB Braden Atkinson as the nation’s No. 3 passer, WR Jesse Legree as the No. 2 receiver, and coach JaMarcus Shephard sparking immediate momentum. With NIL money described as tight and “Power-4 vultures” circling, the key issue is how a rising program keeps one, two, or even all three pillars in place as success increases attention from bigger schools.