Please get rid of the offseason hidden recruits, completely unrealistic

[dbly32]

Quote: Originally Posted by DOSMedia4SC

KEVIN CRAFT!? You have got to be ****ting me. The 1 star ranking makes sense. But how in the world was Kevin Craft a 5 star?

I'm a USC fan, I'm just saying he's one of the guys I knew who blew up seemingly out of nowhere. He became a 5 star upon committing to the ruins who had just signed Chow.

[boisejames]

Quote: Originally Posted by dbly32

http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=762207 1 star http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73...=1&nid=3483189 5 star

That's also different in that he was a senior in high school when he was a 1 star and he was a JC sophomore when he was a five star.

[DOSMedia4SC]

Quote: Originally Posted by dbly32

I'm a USC fan, I'm just saying he's one of the guys I knew who blew up seemingly out of nowhere. He became a 5 star upon committing to the ruins who had just signed Chow.

Sorry If my post seemed to be ripping on you. I had no intent on doing that. I just found it hilarious that Kevin Craft of all people was a 5 star recruit.

[nikpin]

Yea this is one of the dumbest features they've added. 50% of the time the new recruits don't even receiver offers from other programs and even then not till week 3-4. I would be willing to bet $1000 that no recruit has ever gone from unranked in the summer to 5 star by national signing day. 5 star are rare talents that usually displaying several dynamic attributes separating them from everyone else on the field. Not something gained over night.

[BhamTiger]

The college hoops series did this. Recruits moved up and down in rankings from their freshman year of HS until their senior year. You might have a 1* kid as a freshman end up as a 4* senior, and a 5* freshman end up as a 2* senior. It's a great feature for CH, and they had it in the game for several years, so I don't see why they can't do it in NCAA Football.

[dbly32]

My point with Craft was that he WAS a 1 star at Mt. Sac and became a 5 star midway through his recruitment (if I remember correctly upon committing to UCLA). Of course that makes you question why they did that to begin with...

[Roggie]

I'm more for the idea of a few recruits not starting out on the list, then periodically throughout the season a few pop up as 2 or 3 stars. At the same time, have recruits move around in rankings, but even if a guy goes from a 5 to a 3, he could still have the ability to develop into a premier player. Not all of them, just one or two in a class or so. Then have some of the 3 stars that jump up to 5 stars end up really being 3 stars who played over their head, while others are legit 5 stars.

They tried to do that in NCAA Basketball 09, but if somebody moved up, they were guaranteed better than someone ranked worse than them.

[RynoAid]

yea, not a fan of the hidden recruits either... I would rather see them have movement in the grades of some of the recruits throughout the season...

like maybe a 5 star drops to 4 star... or a 2 star slowly rises to a 4 star as the season progresses. Something to make it a little more random in what you might get and it would make being diligent in analyzing the recruits pay off. You might catch on to that rising 2 star before someone else and get the jump on signing him.