Mercer couldn't develop a three-star if he walked in with a playbook already memorized. Real program building? I watched Barry Alvarez take two-star kids from Wisconsin and turn them into Rose Bowl champions. Your "refined evaluation process" is just fancy talk for picking up other schools' leftovers. A higher blue-chip percentage than Furman? That's like bragging you're the tallest midget at the circus. You want to talk foundations? Our foundation was poured by guys who stayed for four years and bled for the program, not kids chasing the highest NIL bidder from some collective in Macon. The SoCon will always be a stepping stone, and no recruiting class changes that.