On Wednesday, college football teams around the country finalized their 2019 recruiting classes with the second national signing day of the recruiting cycle.

Tom Allen and IU picked up a pair of players on the day—offensive lineman Tim Weaver and defensive back Josh Sanguinetti. The pair of recruits joins what has been called the best Hoosier recruiting class in at least a decade. In fact, since the 247Sports recruiting class rankings became comprehensive in 2002, the 2019 class’s national ranking of 38 is the highest IU has achieved.

Weaver is a three-star recruit from Hellertown, PA. He chose the Hoosiers over offers from Rutgers, Akron, Bucknell, and Buffalo. Allen said that Weaver has the flexibility to play inside and outside on the offensive line, has great length, and the coaching staff is excited about his potential, but he also fits what they want in a recruit off the field. “He’s the kind of young man that matches the values we’re trying to look for academically and from a character perspective and comes from a great family,” Allen said.

Sanguinetti is yet another recruit that Allen has managed to pull from the South Florida pipeline. He’s a three-star recruit from Fort Lauderdale, FL and chose to sign with IU over offers from major programs like Auburn, Florida, Ohio State, and Miami among others. On Wednesday Allen noted that Sanguinetti had 24 interceptions during his high school career, also calling him a “very good athlete” and saying that he “will be a great addition to an already-talented young secondary that did a really good job last year.”

With the improved recruiting since the beginning of Allen’s tenure, with two of the better classes in recent history, and some of the highest rated recruits to ever choose IU, there could be some added pressure for the Hoosiers to perform on the field, but Allen seemingly welcomes that challenge. “I think that does add some extra expectation, but that’s what you want,” Allen said. “When you start playing a better level of football, then people expect you to play higher the next year and then the next year and then you start attracting really good players and expect those players to perform, and I expect our coaches to do a great job of developing them and our strength staff to do a great job of developing them. That to me is part of the expectation that we want. We’re trying to raise that here in this program, and that’s what’s happened.”

Despite the praise and accolades being given to this class, Allen and the Hoosiers plan to aim even higher in the future. “We have to stack a good class upon another good class and another good class, and obviously you like—everybody talks about top 25,” Allen said. “I like to talk about top 25 offense, top 25 defense, top 25 football team. So next goal is to be a top 25 recruiting class.”