Recruiting is a joke!

[Romowens]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Death

Be obsessive... it's how we've gotten this far... to add on to what I bolded in your post, I carry 10-12 WR's because I throw a lot. However... just because I have that many, if some 5-star WR is interested in my school, and I know he could come in and start day one, I should have the option of telling him that. "Yes Michael, I know we have 12 WR's and only one is a Senior, but trust me, you sign here, you will start. You're better than anyone I currently have." Instead... we get: Playing Time - D Another thing that is so wrong w/ recruiting.

That's where the early playing time promise comes into place. The letter grades are only stating the obvious really.

[virgil]

I'm getting pretty sick of this recruiting crap too. It's much worse than previous years. I had 25 people on my board, all of them had me in their top 3, had all their interests unlocked, I was ranked 3rd at the time, won the last 4 National Championships, and had a bunch of players in for the visit.

Won the game against Alabama easily.

After the game, not a single player soft committed to me. In fact, 2 hard committed to Alabama and 10 of them soft committed elsewhere. It's just ridiculous. I actually lost my stature with the recruits, for giving them what they wanted, gaining in rank, and beating another team on their board.

How does this crap make any sense? I've tried every strategy and none of them work consistently. What really kills me is that teams like Ohio State keep getting a ton of 5 Star recruits regardless of how they play.

[lbh24]

Quote: Originally Posted by virgil

How does this crap make any sense? I've tried every strategy and none of them work consistently. What really kills me is that teams like Ohio State keep getting a ton of 5 Star recruits regardless of how they play.

IRL, try any strategy and see how consistently it works with 17 year old kids. It's a bit random but that's because kids' thought processes and decision-making is a bit random.

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Maybe I'm just getting lucky, but recruiting has been pretty fair to me in five seasons (4 in an offline as EMU on Heisman, 1 in an online as WaZu on AA) of doing it. My first year at EMU my class was in the 90's. Only about 12 signings -- some 1*, bulk of it being 2* and a couple 3*. Second year I moved to middle-of-the-pack and got a class in the 70's. Year 3 got me into the 40's because I found a couple untouched 4* guys in the offseason, and Year 4 I was #12, mainly because of the sheer mass of the class. 22 signings -- eighteen 3*, four 4*.

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The only super-unrealistic thing I've seen was this past off-season. I was going for a 5* guy (had some extra hours to use, I pitched to him and got into his top 10. I ended up at #5 and didn't get him, which was fine, but he ended up signing with Utah State!? The teams between me and them were Oregon, USC, and Texas. All of USU's pitches were worse than mine and they didn't even offer him until week 5. The rest of the teams (including myself) did offer, but USU was just dominating. He was not a Utah boy (he was from Cali) and his Early PT there was only a B, while he was very interested in things like TV Exposure. It was odd, but ah well.