June is always a big recruiting month, and with only five commitments secured heading into last weekend, it was time for dominoes to start falling for Northwestern and Pat Fitzgerald. And, well, they did just that. With three commits on Sunday, two more on Monday, a sixth on Tuesday, and a seventh on Friday, Northwestern's 2016 recruiting class went from 5 to 12 in less than a week
But whether or not the commitments would eventually come wasn't the issue. We knew they would in some form or another. And they did. Now the question becomes this: Have the recent commits furthered the trend of improved recruiting under Pat Fitzgerald?