WKU Recruiting: Where The Tops Stand After the First Day of the Early Signing Period
The first day of the early signing period is in the books and the Hilltoppers essentially cleaned house, garnering 17 announced National…
The first day of the early signing period is in the books and the Hilltoppers essentially cleaned house, garnering 17 announced National Letters of Intent and a couple of unannounced by the school (from, what we are assuming, preferred walk-ons).
All things considered, Tyson Helton and his new, revamped staff did a pretty good job — they only had two official visit weekends and were not only able to retain a handful of long-time commits, but garner new surprise signees.
While I think the Hilltoppers may be done in the early signing period, there’s always the case they get one or two more before it ends. But, as it stands, lets take a look at what the top recruiting services say regarding the Tops’ class of 2019, so far.
247Sports
247Sports’ rankings have the Hilltoppers 86th overall and sixth in Conference USA, behind MTSU, UAB, La Tech, Southern Miss and North Texas.
While it is still the early signing period, and traditional NSD is still to be had in February (a period which WKU says they expect to get more NLI’s having intentionally left space), the Tops class this year is comparable to last year’s, where they finished 84th in the overall rankings and sixth in the C-USA ones.
Rivals
Rivals sees eye-to-eye with 247, having the Tops tied for the 86th (along with Maryland) best class in the country and, currently, the seventh best in the conference, also slating Marshall above the Tops (something 247 didn’t have).
WKU turned in Rivals’ #83 overall class and #6 C-USA class a season ago.
It’s been a very strong year for C-USA recruiting so the Tops sitting middle of the pack, all things considered regarding coaching changes and everything, is in no ways negative.