I agree and since some of the menus look the same as NCAA 14 I suspect we will get something along those lines.
What's new about pipelines is now the user created coach has a pipeline in addition to the school pipeline. What's also new is the pipeline doesn't change. It is permanent. In 14 only the school had pipelines and they changed depending on the number of players on the roster from a state.
What's unknown is whether the coach pipeline and the school pipeline stack. We know head coach and coordinator attributes stack. If pipelines stack we could use the same state as a pipeline for coach and school and get 100 points instead of 50. For example if I have Missouri as both coach and school pipeline assuming Missouri only has 1 pipeline I get 100 points for every recruit in the state. If a recruit has the proximity to home motivation we could pitch that and with the 100 bonus points for pipeline we would have a big advantage in recruiting the state.
I'm guessing in teambuilder you pick your pipeline(s) when you create the school and then are locked in. It's great that they took so much time to add this much depth.