NCAA 2014 recruiting

The first dynasty I played in, the first season I think I only got like 5 recruit
It's extremely different. I really like some parts, such as being ale to just set points to a recruit and it stays that way week to week, instead of having to basically reset it every week like in old games.
However, I absolutely hate two things:
If you don't get a jump on even just an average recruit and pretty don't just put the max, you're falling waaaay behind in only like two weeks and it's nearly impossible to catch back up.
Two, I really hate how easy it is for practically any other school to get a jump on you. This happened to me one season where I had at least 5 guys that I really needed who I had the Max on all season, led for all season, but then all of a sudden was in 2nd by like 3500 points in the second to last week for some of them. I know there's a "lock break" feature, but I don't mean specifically that, I mean in general. I was scrambling like hell just to get any kind of commits, even if they were in the 60s