The absolute best value in the entire 2026 recruiting year is going to come from the junior college ranks, and any program not dedicating a full-time staffer to scouring every JUCO field in America is committing gross negligence. Everyone is so obsessed with the high school composite and the portal feeding frenzy that they’re completely sleeping on the ready-made, physically developed monsters playing at the NJCAA level right now. For a program like ours, this isn't a secondary straegy, it's the lifeblood. While the Georgias and Oregons of the world are writing seven-figure NIL checks for five-star high school kids, our bagmen are building relationships at places like East Mississippi and Iowa Western, finding the 6'5" edge rusher who just needed a year to focus or the 330-pound mauler who was an academic qualifier away from being a Power Four starter. The crystal ball predictions and the 247 composite rankings are a joke for these guys. They're often unranked or have a generic two-star label because the services don't have the bandwidth to properly evaluate them, but our coaches see the tape and get them on campus for an OV and it's a done deal. This is how you win in Conference Carolinas. You can't out-bid Appalachian State or Coastal Carolina for a four-star in-state kid, but you can absolutely find a JUCO linebacker who runs a 4.6 and has three years of eligibility left who wants to prove every big school that overlooked him wrong. I'm hearing noise about a couple of these sleepers right now, guys who had FBS offers out of high school, went the JUCO route to get right, and are now looking for a home where they can play immediately. That's our sweet spot. The winter portal window being the only one now actually helps this, because high school kids who sign in December see the portal chaos and sometimes get cold feet, but a JUCO kid is signed, sealed, and delivered, a hardened player ready to contribute day one. We need to be all over this. Our last few classes have been solid, but the real bump, the game-changing talent that flips a close game against a rival, is sitting in Kansas or Mississippi right now, waiting for a call. The staff knows it. They've b...