The Spartan football team got hot on the recruiting trail and even jumped into the top 25 nationally in terms of 2026 recruiting classes and the basketball program extended a plethora of interesting offers and also landed one of the hottest point guard recruits in the country, Carlos Medlock Jr. It feels like the effects of hiring a new athletic director were becoming evident.
J Batt was hired away from Georgia Tech after turning the Yellow Jackets around both on the football field as well as on the basketball court. Georgia Tech had also been known as one of the best up-and-coming NIL schools.