Nice chart, thanks for posting that!
so extrapolating some data about our 500-mile radius:
Illinois: Averages 7.8 Blue-chip recruits/year
Oklahoma: 3.8
Missouri: 3.2
Colorado: 2.6
Wisconsin: 1.4
Kansas: 1.4
Minnesota: 1.2
Iowa: 1.2
Nebraska: 0.4
I think we should be hitting Ill/OK/MO/CO really hard. Close enough proximity to have a geographic advantage, and plenty of guys to pick from. I know we would be competing with large nearby programs, but that is really the case everywhere. To some extent we are already doing this, but I'd like to see more.