The curtain won’t rise on Missouri high school football again for six months, but already the 2018 recruiting class — next fall’s seniors — are receiving rave reviews.
“It’s one of the best in recent memory, if not the best ever,” second-year Tigers coach Barry Odom said. “It’s always important for us to recruit the state of Missouri, and the class of 2018 is obviously very critical for what we want to do.”
Odom’s staff understands there’s an unusually deep in-state well from which to pull this year, creating urgency to capitalize.
“It’s been awhile (since I’ve seen a class like this),” MU defensive coordinator and St.