Recruiting Question

[sammcculloch]

Playing as small teams such as me, i'm using Iowa State, how do you get top recruits at small teams. What is an easy way to raise interest.

[DeskCoder]

Make sure you spend at least an hour with the recruit each week.

My little scheme is to offer the recruit a scholarship the first week they are on my board. If they move up in interest, I then recruit for an hour a week until I sign, or until it looks like I am losing them. Then as I sign or lose recruits, I offer more and more scholarships out. If a recruit's interest does not move into the Top 10, I leave them on my board until they are down to their top 5 schools. Then I remove them.

I am a 3 star team in the MAC (in my 3rd year). I have recruited 3 5*, 4 4*, 2 3* so far through week 9. I also am #1 on 4 more recruits, #2 on 5 more.

In my 2nd year, I recruited a 92 OVR DT who is tearing it up!

[oregon232]

I usally promise them No Redshirt, Decent playing time, and All- American if I am weak at the positiont they play. I just got a 5* RB to committ to me and I am Nevada

[hawkeye2188]

Promises at the end of the season are deal breakers. If you make a good promise, no redshirt, all-american your more than likely going to get him.

[blazer003]

Another way is in about week 4 or 5 do a prospect search for all the 4 and 5 stars that still have 10 schools left on their list. These are players that no one is really going after. There's usually just a couple 5 stars, and about 10-15 4 stars. Add them to the list, offer them a scholarship and go after them hard and heavy for a few weeks. Chances are you'll start moving up their list. Some don't though. I had a 5* OLB that I recruited all the way through the end of season recruiting, made promises and everything and never got on his list, nor did any other team rise (which is why I kept after him). At the end, he just chose Penn State, who had been #1 on his list the whole time, but was only half bar full till the very end.