re: OLD CFB25 Thread - THREAD IS OFFICIALLY ANCHORED

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But, is this a good strategy or should i hold off on scholarship offers

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its a good strategy. Carpet bomb offers ASAP

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I'm curious how it impacts a recruit early on, or later, or if it's no different than a pitch.

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idk if there is a difference but in my experience, you want to wrap a recruitment up ASAP. Get your offer out, go all in on the recruit, have him commit before he can take visits

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Additionally, do you try to spread out your hours to all your players, or just go hard on your top 10 and worry about filling in the gaps later?

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I go all in on the kids and then fill in after. To maximize this strategy, I use coordinators who are also recruiters. This usually gives me enough points to where I can recruit 15+ kids at a time even when sending the house on all of them

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To maximize this strategy, I use coordinators who are also recruiters. This usually gives me enough points to where I can recruit 15+ kids at a time even when sending the house on all of them

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I'm confused. I picked the recruiter archetype for my HC. I had 900 hours to spend on week 1 (after preseason). Are you saying you can switch who is recruiting the player, from HC to OC?

Also, do you give your coordinators skills or just spend your points on your HC?

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It’s worked for me lol. I’ve lined my arrow up perfect and timed the accuracy in the green and still missed. I dunno

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It would be nice, if EA would provide you with a freaking game controls manual, considering this is a brand new game that hasn't been out in 11 years.

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It’s worked for me lol. I’ve lined my arrow up perfect and timed the accuracy in the green and still missed. I dunno

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You have to hold the A/X button down for power. The arrow will fill up, but you hold it too long and you will shank it

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Questions on recruiting.

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Pretty much what WestCoastAg said.

Scholarship offers to players that remain on your board continue to gain influence whether you spend additional time on them. I fill my board to 35 and offer every single one in the offseason. This takes some luck because if you scout a bunch of busts you waste hours looking for replacements. I went balls to the wall on the recruiting coaching tree so it only takes 20 hr to 100% scout each player (at every position)

Then after that I look for the players I really want or need and max their hours. Send the house (and whatever else you can do) until you find their top pitches, then switch to “hard sell”. You can usually guess the correct hard sell when you have 2 green checks - you can also do it if you have 1 green check and a ton of red (fwiw).

I also comb my board for players I want but don’t want to go all out for them. A lot of times you can let the scholarship influence ride and no one else is recruiting them. Easy way to gain influence without spending hours (yet).

If one of those players starts getting recruited I usually just replace them on my board. You’re not going to keep up with just the scholarship influence so you might as well cut your losses.

The last part is visits - I typically cannibalize the recruits hours to schedule the visit (40 hr) and then re-apply the hours the next week. I have lost some ground on those recruits while doing that though, so be warned that you can be in a healthy lead, schedule a visit, and then be in 2nd place the next week. The alternative is taking 40 hr from another recruit but you’re sure to lose ground there.

Sorry for consecutive long arse posts

ETA: your recruiting hours are tied to your team prestige and whether you have a game that week or not. So, the above is for a high prestige team. You’ll have to be more selective with filling, scouting, and offering with lower prestige teams, but I would likely approach in the same way.

I’ve got that but where do you time the thing that goes left and right? In the center green?

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LSU defense is bad in this game

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Sounds like it’s accurate to RL expectations?

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So say you have 40 hours (25, 10, 5 pitches). You remove all the pitches and sub it out for a visit?

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Yeah, I don’t know if that’s the best way to do it but that’s what I do. Just for that 1 week and then it’s back to 40 hr.

I figure it’s better than taking those hours away from another recruit and risking losing them.

Forgot to mention earlier, sometimes I go all out for a player then realize I’m the only one recruiting them, so then I reallocate those hours to another player until I can come back to them. It seems like if you jump to a huge early lead the other teams will back off until later in the season. Seems the AI uses a similar approach to what I do to manage their hours.

ETA: just had my first 4* insta-commit in the offseason. Don’t know if that’s a glitch but I’ll take it. I don’t have the insta-commit coach ability.

EA servers are down right now




Is anyone else having trouble scheduling visits? I’m in a couple guys’ top three, they have their list narrowed down to their top 5 or 3, and it won’t let let schedule a visit. It says ‘Visits will become available once the recruit has narrowed down to his top five schools’


I’ve missed on a ton of guys because of this

So question about the passing still. I know that blue is what you want, but how do you throw a bullet if the blue meter for that throw distance really only gives you time to tap the button or vice versa? Say I want to lob it over a linebacker but to get the blue meter requires me to hold the button down longer?