Here are the members of the 2018 Michigan State Spartans recruiting class. How well did Mark Dantonio and his staff fare? Here’s our grade for the class.
It was a remarkable turnaround for Mark Dantonio and the Michigan State Spartans last season as they went 10-3 and tied Penn State for second place in the Big Ten East with a 7-2 mark, one of the big wins was over rival Michigan too. This was the type of season Spartans fans had grown accustomed to since Dantonio came to East Lansing, but after last season’s three-win flop, it was a nice rebound.
And with practically the entire starting offense and defense returning in 2018, the Spartans could be challenging for another Big Ten championship and a berth in the College Football Playoff. Although, because Michigan State has so many returning starters, that means there wasn’t a ton of available scholarships to hand out to the nation’s top recruits as there would be in other years.
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As a result, Michigan State has the nation’s No. 29 class and No. 6 class in the Big Ten, which is a tad lower than they have been used to. And there shouldn’t be much drama on National Signing Day for Michigan State considering 20 recruits have already signed their letters of intent and are enrolled in school and will be able to participate in spring practice.
Of the 20 signees, the top recruit is four-star cornerback Kalon Gervin from Detroit’s Cass Technical High School, a pipeline that’s sent a ton of players to Michigan State. And considering the Spartans track record of developing cornerbacks and sending them to the NFL, Gervin could be the next special player from the Spartans secondary.
Dantonio has a nice class, but I’d stop short of calling it a great class. It will hinge on Dantonio and his staff’s ability to coach and develop these recruits for it to be great. Fortunately, for Michigan State, that’s pretty much what Dantonio has done his entire career.
Grade: B-