I feel like I have been hearing also sorts of comments about MSU recruiting or lack of recruiting or severe drop off in recruiting, or what-have-you for months. But, nobody seemed to have a lot of hard numbers to back anything up. So, I decided to pull those numbers and visualize them. What I have done is to pull the recruiting data for 6 of the top teams in the Big Ten back to 2007. We could argue for days about the best way to quantify recruiting and we could argue for several more days about whether these number actually mean anything. But, let’s put all that aside for a moment. In my view, the best way to compare recruiting classes, based on the numbers in the Rival’s database (such as they are), is to use the average rating for each class. This gives a little more information than simply a 2-star through 5-star rating and unlike the Rivals ranking, the total number of recruits does not matter. First off, let’s look at the comparison of MSU, OSU, and UofM (with some photos to remi