I care less about how they are rated and more about what other offers they have. We seem to still be recruiting kids with 1-AA offers or maybe 1 or 2 1-A offers. We rarely get players who have P5 offers. This program should be able to beat out Purdue, Syracuse, and other low level P5 schools for recruits. If not, then we will never get to that next level of play. You can only win so much with low level recruits. We don't currently have a coach that is capable of making up for recruiting defecencies.

I could care less about all the previous walk-ons and players that only had an NIU offer and turned out to be great players. Jordan Lynch, Chandler Harnish, Chad Spann, etc. are the exceptions not the rule. We also had better coaching staffs when we had those players. I have little faith in the current head coach to get more out of players.