2014 Recruiting Notebook: July 17, 2013
/We are inching closer to the halfway point between National Signing Day 2013 and its namesake on the 2013 calendar. It has been a little over five months now since Kevin Wilson was able to bring in more four-star recruits in a single class than his predecessors did in the 11 previous seasons combined. However, the momentum that the staff had to close out the 2013 class did not seem to carry over to 2014. Indiana received their first commitment to the 2014 class on June 2nd, 2013 from Michael Barwick. Just over a week early, to the day, from when the coaches heard from Isaac Griffith back in 2013.
While on its own merits the news was exciting, Barwick is still arguably the highest rated recruit to join the class thus far, the fact of the matter is that it once again signaled a late start for Hoosier recruiting. While other programs had already signed handfuls of players, Indiana has just one. But that’s when the dominoes started to fall again.
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