Early in April when the Gophers were off to a hot start in recruiting I took a look at what had me excited about the early trends in this year’s recruiting class. At the time I wrote it, I really thought Fleck was building a great recruiting class. Now that every commit but Logan Richter (greyshirting until 2019) has sent in their letter of intent, I’m very pleased to say what I think is obvious:
*In the internet recruiting era, because we can’t factually claim to know that this class is better than the one Clarence Spears put around noted plow lifting hero Bronko Nagurski
I think this is true for three main reasons:
- The staff closed by adding (and holding) 4 stars, not two stars.