The Champaign Room · Feb 7, 2019
Big Ten West Signing Day Recap
Singing Day came and went on Wednesday, and with it, the end of the silly season where recruiting exists in a vacuum that — at least according to fans — fails to account for the other aspects that make a football program successful, such as coaching, development of talent, and, oh, deployment of talent.
Nonetheless, recruiting rankings — and how a school recruits relative to its rivals — is a pretty good indicator of how a team will perform in the future.
So with that in mind, we break down the recruiting classes of the Big Ten West.
ILLINOIS
National Ranking: 62
Big Ten Ranking: 14
Big Ten West Ranking: 7
Key Signees: Marquez Beason (ATH); Isaiah Williams (ATH); Shammond Cooper (LB)