Soft Commit Question

[blkrptnt819]

Wow....I did not realize that where a recruit is placed on your recruiting board had an effect. Learned something new.

That's news to me too!!!!

[chessmyantidrug]

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That's news to me too!!!!

I believe only the top player(s) on your recruiting board are really affected. I'm in the fourth year at Rice and landed the #10 HB recruit in my third season. I started out with him as my top target, but I moved him further and further down because I needed help recruiting other players. At one point, I had him around 6 or 7 on my board even though he was the HB I wanted most and had a 3-star HB at the top of my board.

Sometimes, recruits just want to go to a certain school and it doesn't matter where you have them on your board.

[Old School SD Fan]

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When it get's close like that the best thing to do is give him as much time as possible. Try to do a lot of comparison pitches to do some damage to your competitor. Every point counts. But above all else, keep hammering away!

Bingo, I've found this option is GOLD.

[Marcus34]

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Ive never lost a recruit after he soft committed to me. Just make sure you spend 60 mins w/ him a week and he'll committ

[bmxdmx]

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The pink diamond means adding them to your recruiting board will put you in their top 10 schools instantly. The open lock means one of pitches for that player has been unlocked.

Had no clue about that one

[joephillips03]

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In one of the older versions of NCAA they said that a players position on your board would have an effect on his interest. Unfortunately EA introduces new elements and then forgets to put them in the next version so who knows if it still has an effect.

[football5680]

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Super unlikely that he will commit to another school.
A soft commit is basically saying that i will sign with you.
I have never lost a soft commit or stolen a soft commit from another school.
To make him commit just keep talking to him.
Dont use too much time though.

[ZekeRoberts]

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i would really like to know if recruits "react" to their position on your recruiting board
but i'm going to assume that they don't
because every week i go to look at my board and it has been reorganized
in no discernable order?
anyone else have this problem?

[TWOSILK]

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I have a question if a player has soft committed to a school,but they havent offered a scholly, do you still try to recruit, or do you give up??

[FightinSnydersKSU]

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It'd be kinda dumb if a recruit knew about the coaches recruiting board and knew he was listed as #35 or something. When i was recruited out of high school nobody knew where they were on coaches board, so if it's in the game i think that's dumb if it affects a players recruitment at all.

[csstew55]

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i would really like to know if recruits "react" to their position on your recruiting board
but i'm going to assume that they don't
because every week i go to look at my board and it has been reorganized
in no discernable order?
anyone else have this problem?

make sure you change your settings to manual for everything or else the computer will organize your board, add recruits to it, and offer scholorships to them too.

[gopher_guy]

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It would make absolutely no sense to me if where they are on your board affects their interest at all. That list is for the coach's reference.

It's not like he goes to recruit and says "You are our 34th most valued recruit this year!"

[Bgeezy87]

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Has anyone else noticed a pink diamond or open lock next to a prospects name? What does this mean, am I missing something obvious? Saw the pink diamond next to a prospect that had a soft commit to another school just the other day. Not sure if it's related or not?

The pink diamond used to be like a player gem, meaning a good underrated player, unless they changed it.

[37]

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I have a question if a player has soft committed to a school,but they havent offered a scholly, do you still try to recruit, or do you give up??

depends how far behind u are in points

[AiDub]

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Super unlikely that he will commit to another school.
A soft commit is basically saying that i will sign with you.
I have never lost a soft commit or stolen a soft commit from another school.
To make him commit just keep talking to him.
Dont use too much time though.

I stole a 4 star OLB prospect that had soft-committed to USC yesterday. I got super lucky to get the 2x points and to have him in my pipeline. I think I got something like 800 points or so after the 6 questions where done.

It can be done, just not that often.