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Recruiting help for NCAA 10
Posted on 7/20/09 at 6:33 am
Posted on 7/20/09 at 6:33 am
Is it better to bring in your recruits to earlier games and lock them up quick or is it better to bring them in late? Also, how early do you offer scholarships?
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Posted on 7/20/09 at 8:29 am to You will Artichokes
As soon as you can schedule the visit do it. The upside to being able to schedule it early is that you have better choice of which game for them to come to. For instance, if you are stanford and the recruit is between you and USC, you want to schedule the recruit for that home game assuming you can beat usc.
I dont think it matters as to whether the visit is early or late in the season. Its more important to schedule them for a tough opponent/rivalry game that you think you will win assuming you have their most and very highs that are compatible with your schools strength.
There are 2 schools of thought on offering scholarships. One is to offer everyone as early as possible and the other is to hold out. I personally offer early as it gives me a boost when the competition is the greatest, but i am usually not a powerhouse program. I would think that if you were florida, your prestige and the other recruiting tools could carry you to the end where you would make the offer.
I dont think it matters as to whether the visit is early or late in the season. Its more important to schedule them for a tough opponent/rivalry game that you think you will win assuming you have their most and very highs that are compatible with your schools strength.
There are 2 schools of thought on offering scholarships. One is to offer everyone as early as possible and the other is to hold out. I personally offer early as it gives me a boost when the competition is the greatest, but i am usually not a powerhouse program. I would think that if you were florida, your prestige and the other recruiting tools could carry you to the end where you would make the offer.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:03 am to puffulufogous
Here's how I did it last year. I'm doing the same this year, but I don't know if the AI has changed.
Fill my board with 35 prospects in Week 1. I only choose players with me in the top 10, and try to stick with Top 3 if there's a lot of Top 10s at a certain position. I'll also grab studs from the home state.
Week 1 - offer everyone a schollie that has me number 1. This year, I got 4 commits out of 8 prospects right away. Much higher than last year, but I don't know if it's a fluke. I'll also lose a couple that commit to someone else. I don't replace them unless it's a position of need.
After that, I offer whenever I bump up to Number 1 on their list. I quick call guys for the first 4 weeks. I generally go 30 min to 5* and 20 min to 4*, but I may go more on a position of need or less on a position I'm loaded at. Not everyone gets called each week.
By Week 4, I start calling the guys that are ready for visits. As soon as I have their Most and 2 Very Highs, I bring them in for a visit. I try and schedule the visits for mid season or soon thereafter. This gives me time to bump their interest and get a commit after the visit. The visit should be against a rival team, too. I just quick call them the rest of the season after I schedule their visit. I will start negative recruiting with guys that are soft commits to other schools.
Everyone gets a schollie offer before their visit, regardless where I rank on their list. In the offseason, Promise, Promise, Promise. But make sure you can deliver those promises.
These comments apply to running a team like LSU. I follow the same principles for a small school, but change the 4 and 5 star recruits to 1, 2 and 3 star recruits.
Fill my board with 35 prospects in Week 1. I only choose players with me in the top 10, and try to stick with Top 3 if there's a lot of Top 10s at a certain position. I'll also grab studs from the home state.
Week 1 - offer everyone a schollie that has me number 1. This year, I got 4 commits out of 8 prospects right away. Much higher than last year, but I don't know if it's a fluke. I'll also lose a couple that commit to someone else. I don't replace them unless it's a position of need.
After that, I offer whenever I bump up to Number 1 on their list. I quick call guys for the first 4 weeks. I generally go 30 min to 5* and 20 min to 4*, but I may go more on a position of need or less on a position I'm loaded at. Not everyone gets called each week.
By Week 4, I start calling the guys that are ready for visits. As soon as I have their Most and 2 Very Highs, I bring them in for a visit. I try and schedule the visits for mid season or soon thereafter. This gives me time to bump their interest and get a commit after the visit. The visit should be against a rival team, too. I just quick call them the rest of the season after I schedule their visit. I will start negative recruiting with guys that are soft commits to other schools.
Everyone gets a schollie offer before their visit, regardless where I rank on their list. In the offseason, Promise, Promise, Promise. But make sure you can deliver those promises.
These comments apply to running a team like LSU. I follow the same principles for a small school, but change the 4 and 5 star recruits to 1, 2 and 3 star recruits.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 1:13 pm to Dave Worth
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I will start negative recruiting with guys that are soft commits to other schools.
Your strategy sounds very good, but how do you negatively recruit? I've seen it mentioned on here before, but nobody ever explains how it is done.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 1:55 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
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Your strategy sounds very good, but how do you negatively recruit? I've seen it mentioned on here before, but nobody ever explains how it is done.
The one guy I got from negative recruiting was "very high" on early palying time but his soft verbal was to a team that could only offer him "c" at early playing time while I could ovver him "a". Got him that very week.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 2:26 pm to SouthOfSouth
if you negative recruit someone you have to have a better grade at the thing you are pitching than the team you are recruiting against. And it really helps if it is one of their top 3 catagories.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 2:52 pm to Alabama Slim
I don't know how to negatively recruit yet, except for what I'm reading here. I'll figure it out as I go, with some help from the web. Like others, it seemed to hurt me a lot when I fooled with it. At first, I'll experiment on Soft Commits where I've got little to lose.
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