College Football 25 All-In-One Recruiting Guide: Do This, Not That

[Steve_OS]

With the first "true" week of the 2024 college football season in the books, I wanted...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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[ChaseB]

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Just about 6,000 words of advice for those who want to get a handle on just about all aspects of recruiting to either understand the mechanics, get a leg up on peeps in online dynasties, see what's strong to help implement your own House Rules, or just compare to what y'all do already before telling me what a FOOL I am.

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[Ghost Of The Year]

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Good stuff here. Still, I just recruit 25 players instead of 35. I don't get everyone I'm originally after, but do get what I ''need''.

[Hooe]

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Definitely got bit by the arrow count vs hours thing my first season in recruiting and didn't discover my error until it was too late. Good to see that call-out here as well.

[mtoo22]

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Great stuff!

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[leoribas3]

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This was such a fun read! Whats interesting to me is I legit recruit exactly like your guide.

When the game dropped I ran 3 dynasties for 1 season each, mostly to understand how the recruiting game worked. Looking into the strategies ive used for both hits and misses. And I can say this is pretty spot on, from my experience with the game.

I already like this recruiting system, Its engaging and its pretty good for a game that has been rebuild from scratch. But it makes me way more excited to think about whats ahead in the next CFB games, I think adding a little more complexity to the whole process and more realistic classes (way less white guys basically lol) could make dynasty really shine in the future.

[jeff29626]

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With the first "true" week of the 2024 college football season in the books, I wanted...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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Thats a great article with a ton of info. Thank you! Do you have any other similar articles for other aspects of the game? Specifically coaching archetypes combos to build your coach.

[UtahUtes32]

Re: College Football 25 All-In-One Recruiting Guide: Do This, Not That

Fantastic guide. I've spent a good amount of time watching various recruiting videos and this one article gleaned from all of the tips and tricks.

[ChaseB]

Re: College Football 25 All-In-One Recruiting Guide: Do This, Not That

Thats a great article with a ton of info. Thank you! Do you have any other similar articles for other aspects of the game? Specifically coaching archetypes combos to build your coach.

I think most of the recruiting-related ones are linked in this recruiting guide so you can find them there. I do still have one player progression guide coming soon but that's more a "here's how it works" than a guide to some extent -- though the coaching skill tree certainly plays into it as well.

And then we have plenty of gameplay guides, you can find them most easily by just looking by College Football 25 articles on our site.

[DLev4552]

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Two things related to recruiting that I still haven't been able to decipher:

1. Does the Pipeline tied to your head coach and assistant coaches have any effect at all?

Ex: Your head coach has a pipeline for Hawaii and you are coaching Jax State. I haven't see where Jax State now gets a 1-star (bronze) pipeline for Hawaii.

2. If I am wrong about #1, do the pipelines stack?

Lets say you are coaching South Alabama, with a 2-star silver pipeline for Mississippi. If your head coach and both coordinates all ALSO had Mississippi as their coach pipelines, you would think Mississippi would now be a 5-star mega pipeline.

I don't believe this is happening.

3. What is "National" pipeline?

My DC in my dynasty has national for his. But of course, if the answer to the 2 questions above is that the coaching pipelines actually have zero effect, then this point is moot.

[tessl]

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Great article. I learned a lot. I have to say I disagree the statement that you shouldn't scout after the first week. He gave a list of the most desirable physical attributes. The only way to find those is to scout. The only way that would work is if you were oversigning just to find players with top level attributes and then culling the herd to get rid of players when they become sophomores by encouraging them to enter the portal.

That might work in the game but that's a pretty cutthroat way to do business. Aside from that great informative article.

[fballturkey]

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I kind of agree that you probably won’t scout everybody when you are at a small school. If I’m at a small school frankly I’m taking almost any 4* no matter what.

Later on at bigger schools you’ll have more hours than you know what to do with after a few weeks, and you can scout to find gems or good matches in players you add later to your board.

[DLev4552]

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Great article. I learned a lot. I have to say I disagree the statement that you shouldn't scout after the first week. He gave a list of the most desirable physical attributes. The only way to find those is to scout. The only way that would work is if you were oversigning just to find players with top level attributes and then culling the herd to get rid of players when they become sophomores by encouraging them to enter the portal.

That might work in the game but that's a pretty cutthroat way to do business. Aside from that great informative article.

The not scouting part is really small-school specific.

When you are 1-star prestige school with only 350 hours/week, poor pipelines, bad pitches, and some players in the 50s already on the roster, you just need to be dumping hours on 3-stars that you can actually sign.

You can only send the house on 7 guys/week, or hard sell on 8 guys/week as-is. And that's not including visits. Whether they are a gem or bust, or what their abilities are isn't really that material. Mostly anything is going to be better than what you've got.

Now when you are at a 5-star school with 1,000 hours/week, mega-pipelines, and players in the 80s that are 3rd string on your roster, that's a different story. You can STH on 20 guys and hard sell on 25 guys, while you probably only need to sign 15-20. That's when you get picky.

Alabama doesn't want a 4-star bust with no abilities, so it's worth their while to find that out beforehand.

But South Alabama doesn't care. They would be over the moon to land him, period.

[packmanuk]

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I'm just starting a dynasty and had 400 hours recruiting hours. I setup my board of 35 players and did some scouting of players and went all in on a couple of players using up my hours

This was all in preseason. Now I'm in week 3 but have had zero hours to use in week 1, 2 or now week 3. Will I ever be given any more hours or should I have not used the 400 hours during pre season ? I now don't have any hours to offer scholarships etc.

[DLev4552]

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I'm just starting a dynasty and had 400 hours recruiting hours. I setup my board of 35 players and did some scouting of players and went all in on a couple of players using up my hours

This was all in preseason. Now I'm in week 3 but have had zero hours to use in week 1, 2 or now week 3. Will I ever be given any more hours or should I have not used the 400 hours during pre season ? I now don't have any hours to offer scholarships etc.

The hours are still there being spent on the guys on your board. Go look at your board and guys will have 50/40/25/15, etc. hours assigned to them. Those remain week-to-week unless you go into actions and take them off, or until they sign with you or sign elsewhere.

So if you are showing 0/400 hours, you have used up all 400 with your actions, and you would need to remove "send the house - 50 hours" on one of your recruits and change it to "DM player - 10 hours," and then you would show that you got 40 hours back, so it will be 40/400.

IOW, instead of making you go back and re-assign all 400 of your recruiting hours to the same guys every time you advance, EA just made it carry over every week.