I got bored and looked up how Illinois football has done recruiting native sons to play football. It's not pretty.
National Signing Day is more or less over, at least for the Illinois Fighting Illini according to HC Bill Cubit. So how did we do?
Not great. Illinois' 2016 recruiting class ranks 12th in the Big Ten, ahead of only Rutgers and Purdue. Nationally, the Illini rank 69th, and as much as I want to make a "nice" joke, I really can't. 69th is bad. It gets even worse when you realize that only 5 other Power 5 schools had worse recruiting classes (Kansas State at 72, Rutgers at 74, Boston College at 76, Purdue at 81, and Kansas at 90).