Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

[Mangum]

Anyone have this happen? Before someone asks, I have CPU assistance turned off for everything except visit assistance. I am in week 4 of the off season recruiting. This my first HC job with Washington State and I have a pretty strong class lined up.

Again week 4, with 21 scholly's filled. I have 6 (people left on my board. 4 (four star players) of them have me number one and I have atleast a 200 point lead over the number two teams on the players sheet. For some, I am their only offer.

So I quick call all 6 players, thinking it would be a no brainer in regards of getting the four guys that have me number one. Advance to the week, and I get commits from guys I did not recruit at all. Repeat, I am at WSU, so when I inherited the team, they had 12 WRs on the roster. Do I need more? Well the CPU did, because I ended up with a scrub WR and three other players, I did not even recruit (no call, never listed on my board, etc) at all.

Edit
To add to the madness. I looked at the signings, and it shows 25 players signed. However, when I goto the recruiting board and remove the Benedict Arnolds who signed elsewhere, leaving only my commits, I have 22 players... HUH???

[prettylittlesmiles]

Walk ons brooooooo. You're 25 scholarships will be fulfilled no matter what.

[TDenverFan]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

For whatever reason, they always give you 25 players. I wish you could turn it off, but I don't believe you can.

[Deegeezy]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Yeah, I hate that they do this. It's annoying.

[Mangum]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Thanks guys for clearing that up.. I agree its annoying.

Lots of blood was streaming from WSU's 2014 recruiting class after the addition of those players.

[Zmanthegreat]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Just cut them if it bothers u.

[joshugrady]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Yeah, I hate that they do this.

[MC2]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Yes I hate this so much. I am Oregon so I use Colt Lyerla as my TE and my FB and the game thought I needed a FB so it signed one and I can't use Lyerla as both the starting TE and FB anymore.

[Soonerfan14]

Yes I hate this so much. I am Oregon so I use Colt Lyerla as my TE and my FB and the game thought I needed a FB so it signed one and I can't use Lyerla as both the starting TE and FB anymore.

Formation sub my man

[Deegeezy]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Just cut them if it bothers u.

This is what I do. Only thing that sucks though is that these players disappear from the face of the Earth when you do this. I wish they could go walk-on somewhere else. It's wasting talent out of the talent pool, talent that could help the competition.

[PocketScout]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

The game does this for the CPU and the USER. Look at the Top Classes report in week 5 of the offseason and you will notice most schools have 14-16 signings, but on signing day almost all schools jump to 23-25.

[Deegeezy]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

The game does this for the CPU and the USER. Look at the Top Classes report in week 5 of the offseason and you will notice most schools have 14-16 signings, but on signing day almost all schools jump to 23-25.

Well, I for one hate this new "feature." Why not trickle some of this talent down to the mid-major/small programs?

[Deegeezy]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

I have an 80 overall OT gem I have been going for since the start of the year and he has a soft verbal for Texas (he previously had a soft verbal to Bama for the past 3 or 4 games). I have been in third place. First I was -860, then -600, then -400, and right now I am -160 in week 11 of the season. I am the ONLY school that has offered this player a scholarship and very likely will end up with him because no one else will offer this 80 overall stud a scholarship.

How is this possible?

[PocketScout]

Re: Getting commits from players you did not recruit?

Well, I for one hate this new "feature." Why not trickle some of this talent down to the mid-major/small programs?

I was wondering why it was done this way also so I have done a bunch of simming (after the release of the new patch) to see what all they had fixed in recruiting. (Note: This isnt something that was introduced with the patch)

It appears they are trying to mimic actually signing day so there are more recruits still sitting on the board who have not committed as of the final week of the offseason. The only perk I see from doing it this way is that the higher prestige teams get first dibs of these "walkons/signing day commits" and it allows for top programs to stay good instead of falling off the map like they did in previous games. Doing it this way leaves the recruits on the board longer so the human player has a chance to recruit some, but it also mimics signing day where not every kid is 100% hard committed the entire year.

I have had a handful of kids that I am sitting at #1 on their board all offseason but they never commit and come signing day I'm sitting at #5 on their board and they sign else where. Personally I love this.

I like the way that signing day has some chaos to it, but I do wish that we had the option to turn on/off the "auto-signing to 25" for just the user.

I have an 80 overall OT gem I have been going for since the start of the year and he has a soft verbal for Texas (he previously had a soft verbal to Bama for the past 3 or 4 games). I have been in third place. First I was -860, then -600, then -400, and right now I am -160 in week 11 of the season. I am the ONLY school that has offered this player a scholarship and very likely will end up with him because no one else will offer this 80 overall stud a scholarship.

How is this possible?

This is why recruiting is too easy even on Heisman. As mentioned up top they leave a bunch of players sitting around on the board only to assign them on signing day. I think they need to fix the logic and have ~%90 of players who have an OVR of greater than 75 (player who are 76 OVR are better than 92.5% of all incoming recruits) hard commit earlier than they do. Leave a few out there but right now there are way to many who get no attention and make recruiting pretty easy.