Okay ill give some data for you then.
From 2010-2021. I took the top 30 prospects in Illinois. That is 13 recruiting classes and 390 prospects. 33/390 choose the beloved which is .0846%, so less than 1% of Illinois prep players ended up playing at Illinois, by far the lowest percentage from
ANY power-five state. On the right is top 15 players in the state. As you can see ND, IOWA and NW all do better with top in-state kids than us and have been for 13 seasons. We don't recruit the state well and haven't since 2010, so maybe its time for a new strategy, that is my main point.
| Illinois | NW | Iowa | Minn | Migh | Notre Dame | | | Illinois | NW | Iowa | Minn | Migh | Notre Dame |
2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2011 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2012 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
2014 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
2015 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | | 2015 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
2016 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | | 2017 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 33 | 35 | 38 | 17 | 7 | 18 | | | 12 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 16 |