You watch ESPN break down these 2026, 2027, and 2028 recruiting classes and all I can think about is how we used to find our best players. Coach Dooley would send a graduate aassistant to some small town like Thomson or Moultrie and he would watch a kid play both ways on a Friday night. Three games of film and a handshake with the high school coach was all the evaluation you needed. Now these kids are ranked before they even start high school. They commit to three different schools before signing day. I miss when Herschel showed up in 1980 and nobody outside of Johnson County had even heard of him. That was real recruiting. Not this circus we have now where a 15 year old with a Twitter account is a five star prospect.