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So exactly how excited should I be about this year’s football recruiting class?
Links:

Mark Dantonio Introduces 2009 Recruiting Class
From official MSU site.
MSU recruits: Meet the class of 2009
Photos.
Impact players: Baker, Caper, Fowler, Norman, Sims
Edwin Baker is Emmitt Smith, but with LaDainian Tomlinson’s speed!
High school football stars talk about recruiting process
Baker on “Why not U-M?”:  “They’re arrogant.”
Spartans’ [...]

This is technically a football commitment, which I don’t typically cover.  But Dion Sims clearly wants to be a Division 1 college basketball player:
In the end, the difference was the joint effort of Coaches Dantonio and Izzo, and their willingness to work with the Sims family to allow Dion his dream of attempting to play [...]

Jamil Wilson is down to MSU, Oregon, and Texas.  Marquette is out of the picture.  Wilson says he didn’t like them “playing head games” with him.
Meanwhile, his head coach is hoping he’ll enjoy playing basketball more this season:
“But Jamil needs to just relax sometimes and not get too worked up over things. Sometimes people don’t [...]

Obviously, Jamil Wilson didn’t sign with anybody yesterday.  Here’s what his high school basketball coach said:
“He is still looking into his final four schools, which are Michigan State, Marquette, Texas and Oregon,” said Jason Treutelaar, Wilson’s high school coach. “He is thinking about signing early, but that is not 100 percent. He still has to [...]

Today is the start of the early signing period for 2009 basketball recruits.  Presumably, Garrick Sherman and Derrick Nix will sign the dotted line to come play for Tom Izzo today.
The bigger question is what happens with Jamil Wilson.  Scout.com reports the following:
First topic of discussion is Jamil Wilson. There’s a lot of moving and [...]

Some good news for a rivalry week Friday: Russell Byrd has chosen Michigan State over Kentucky and Michigan.  What we know about Mr. Byrd:

Junior out of Fort Wayne.  Becomes MSU’s second commitment of the 2010 class, joining Keith Appling.
6′7″, 190-pound forward known for his perimeter shooting ability.
Ranked as a 4-star recruit by both Scout and [...]

Per Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald, Russell Byrd will choose between Kentucky, Michigan State, and Michigan on Friday:
“He felt he had enough information,” Kelly Byrd said about his son. “He’d seen enough, heard enough. He wanted to take this week to pray and discuss this with his mother and father.”
Is this a good sign [...]