Eli Drinkwitz and friends have been on a fiendish tear of scouring the JUCO ranks for additions to the ‘22 class, seemingly taking a page from their basketball brethren and trying to beat the competition by finding market inefficiency in less-looked corners.
But is that, truly, the best way to build a roster in the modern game? Sure, Bill Snyder did it in the ‘80s and ‘90s but those were the days where the veer and options were still viable offenses run by blue-bloods and that’s certainly not the case 30-40 years later.
Well, let’s test the ROI on JUCO recruits for our dear, beloved, University of Missouri football Tigers, shall we?