ESPN dropping that summer recruiting intel and I'm immediately pulling up the 247 composite to check our five star tracker. We're sitting in the top 10 nationally but here's the thing that's eating at me. Oregon has FIVE five stars locked in. Ohio State has four. Those are the programs we're sharing a conference with now. You cannot compete for Big Ten titles with a class full of high three stars and the occasional four star. We need to start landing at least two five stars per year minimum or we're going to get run off the field by the Ducks and Buckeyes year after year. The crystal balls are trending for a couple names on the board but this is the dead period where silent commits can flip if you're not staying in their ear every single day. Our staff needs to be working the phones like crazy right now. The gap between us and the top of the Big Ten recruiting hierarchy is real and it's not closing fast enough.