EVANSTON -- With players lounging around Northwestern's locker room during the down time before or after practice, conversations often spring up. Competitive by nature, these conversations often turn into debates. These are football players after all; competition runs in their blood. The debates are mostly playful, until it gets personal: Which recruiting class is the best.
Players from each class jockey for their group. Arguments are tossed out left and right.
"It's not even close," says redshirt sophomore linebacker Anthony Walker, a proud member of the 2013 recruiting class. "I mean, just look at this. Godwin Igwebuike.