After bottles of "digital ink" was spilled over the conference's inability to recruit, is the tide starting to turn, or is it still too early to tell?
What a difference a year makes, right?
It wasn't that long ago when all of the college football writers, including myself on more than one occasion, were wringing their hands over the state of Big Ten football recruiting. Demographic trends showed more and more families leaving the Midwest for the South or West, and the middle-tier of the conference was struggling to keep up.