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New NCAA Football 13 Dynasty Recruiting Features Detailed

In case you missed the dynasty webcast, here's a quick rundown of what was announced:

Breaking into the Top 10

Prospects used to have their whole Top 10 (and thus) their mind's basically made up before you even started recruiting. Now, they will have open spots and you'll be able to break in to them by recruiting them.

School's Names Matter

If you are an Alabama for instance, prospects will listen to you much moreso than if you are recruiting from Texas State. Important distinction for sure.

NCAA Football 13 Dynasty Pitch Information
Your new dynamic team ratings. You can now see how you compare w/other schools as well.

Roulette is Gone, Pitches Are Back and They're Dynamic

Ding-dong the witch is dead! No more recruiting roulette, aka the worst dynasty idea in history.

Each school has 14 pitches, and they can all change throughout dynasty mode. Here's a rundown of each.

Championship Contender: Updated each week based upon your poll rankings, your current recruiting class and talent level. If you are winning, championship contender will go up. If you are losing with horrible recruiting classes, it goes down.

Coach Prestige: If you are reaching your goals as a coach, your prestige rises. If you aren't it falls.

Coach Stability: Before, this was two completely separate ratings. Now, coach stability is determined by the number of years you have been at a school, years left on your contract, the current job security, and the number of times you have renewed a contract at your school.

Conference Stability: This used to never change…now? Conference ratings are dynamic! Your conference prestige will be determined by the BCS ranking of the top six schools in the conference. And if you like changing conferences up in custom conferences, your conferences prestige will change based upon the changes you make as well.

TV Exposure: Your TV exposure rating is determined by your performance in front of the cameras as much as your appearances. Basically, winning big nationally TV games boost your exposure ratings, losing them hurts it (as well as not appearing on TV at all).

Pro Potential: Your pro potential rating is evaluated by looking at the draft classes from the last four seasons and improving this means you need to sign highly rated players and have them play well on the field. The way Jordan describes this on the EA blog, you will have key choices on letting players go and improving this pitch rather than trying to talk them into staying. There's a real risk/reward there. And let's not forget there are now Mock Drafts showing where your players might go, and convincing your players to stay will depend on their standing in the mock draft.

Stadium Atmosphere:  This is driven by the toughest places to play each week ranking. The more you win at home, the more this rating improves.

Playing Style:  This is a completely new pitch that evaluates how you perform on the field. If you pass the ball a lot with a pocket passer, your playing style will reflect that to a pocket passing QB prospect. To get the players you want to run your offense, you have to play the style of football those prospects are looking for. You aren't DQ'ed from getting a scrambler if you really play with pocket passers, it's just that you'll have a tougher time signing them over a school that values scrambling QBs.

Program Tradition: Winning in the regular season does provide a boost, but it's the championship games that really boost a program's tradition. Playing in conference and national title games provide a big boost, but winning them is a huge key.

Playing Time:  Basically, if you have a bunch of guys on your team who are highly rated at WR and who are young, don't expect to go get another 5 star WR.

Proximity to Home: There's no real concrete data on how this is truly determined, but the only way to get an A+ is to have the prospect be from the same town as your school. I have a feeling this will determine a players willingness to transfer for being homesick as well (more on that in a bit).

Academic Prestige/Athletic Facilities/Campus Life: These may change, they may not. Really, you will likely be stuck with these for the most part.


Give a player a call, see what they have to say about what they're interested in.

Transfers

This year transfers will be greater in number than in previous seasons. Players can now transfer for a variety of reasons. A player might transfer if a coach reneges on promises, or if a player isn't getting enough playing time, or even because they are homesick. You can try to convince players transferring to stay with a series of promises based around their reasoning for leaving. Also, if you leave a school for another school, players can transfer to follow you (or other coaches).

Phone Calls

You will be able to select the topics of discussion with each phone call -- or you can let the prospect choose. While you'll instantly find out what's important to the recruit, what they like and what you have to offer may not line up and thus the phone call won't go as smoothly.

Honestly, this is the type of risk/reward that's been missing in recruiting for awhile.

Promises

They're all now available at the beginning regardless of your coach integrity rating.

Triple Threat Athletes

Guys who can pass, catch, and run. Basically you can recruit these guys to play a myriad of positions.


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Member Comments
# 41 waytofailself @ 05/10/12 06:38 PM
So one question: are recruits and overall still linked so that I should only blindly recruit 5 star and 4 star recruits?

In other words, will I find diamonds in the rough? Will some 3 stars end up being as good as 5 stars? Will some 4 stars be absolutely terrible?
 
# 42 jjsmitty34 @ 05/10/12 08:17 PM
I just hope they fix their Depth Chart Logic..

If not, recruiting and transferring won't matter as much as it should.
 
# 43 jmik58 @ 05/10/12 10:44 PM
The transfers improvement stands out the most to me at this point. That's something that was always a glaring miss. The number of transfers out/in was pathetic, but this year's improvement coupled with the likelihood of players following coaches - I'm impressed with the effort thus far.
 
# 44 illwill10 @ 05/11/12 01:43 PM
I love the gem and busts added to recruiting.
Starting off as a 1 star OC/DC/HC will be more fun now. Before I used a 1 star school just as a stepping stone only. I would just sim 1st season while recruiting, then just try to get my coach grade up leave for a better job

Now I will be more inclined to go after 1-3 star players and not having to go after 4 and 5 star guys to get players to immediately make a impact. I can solely focus on finding gems to make my team better. I can find the Matheiu's, Ingrams, Blackmon's of the world while recruiting.
I can stay at that school and eventually make them powerhouse due to finding gems
 
# 45 cts @ 05/11/12 01:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by illwill10
I love the gem and busts added to recruiting.
Starting off as a 1 star OC/DC/HC will be more fun now. Before I used a 1 star school judt as a stepping stone only. I would just sim 1st season while recruiting, then just try to get my coach grade up.

Now I will be more inclined to go after 1-3 star players and not having to go after 4 and 5 star guys to get players to immediately make a impact. I can solely focus on finding gems to make my team better. I can find the Matheiu's, Ingrams, Blackmon's of the world while recruiting/
That's how I'm thinking.

But not just that, it should make for some interesting stories in the lower-tier schools and conferences as a whole, since there should be more gem-type players sprinkled throughout those conferences and schools.

Like I said before, that could be a very interesting dynamic.
 
# 46 illwill10 @ 05/11/12 02:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Smith.0
That's how I'm thinking.

But not just that, it should make for some interesting stories in the lower-tier schools and conferences as a whole, since there should be more gem-type players sprinkled throughout those conferences and schools.

Like I said before, that could be a very interesting dynamic.
Exactly.
I expect to see lower schools like FIU or even a 3 star school be able to get a 2-3 star player that can change their team around.
Look at Baylor or Stanford. RG3 wasnt highly recruited and Luck wasnt the highest QB(7th in ESPN) coming out, but they were able to turn their team into good programs.

I want to see a school like Minnesota or a Kentucky get a few 2-3 star players(over a few seasons) that turns into gems and makes their school into a good program.
I also want to see a few powerhouse teams like Alabama or Texas or OSU get a few 4-5 star players that are bust, eventually turn them into a average school and lower their conference and pitch grades

If implemented correctly, this could be BIG
 
# 47 iromerliciousi @ 05/11/12 02:57 PM
I would also like to know the the percentage of early commitments to go into it deeper - there are numerous prospects that have their dream schools and wait on a certain school to offer then completely close off their recruiting. This shouldn't mean that their recruitment is over, you would still need to contact them throughout the week to keep tabs on them. If you fail to, this should lead to a decommitment. Pulling offers should also be in factor but at the cost of your integrity rating.
 
# 48 DorianDonP @ 05/11/12 03:14 PM
Yeah, I made a thread last year saying it would be nice if they reworked the recruiting a bit so that you could decide to fill up your class with instant commits or wait on guys that want to decide late in the recruiting cycle or on signing day.

As of right now in real life.

Florida has 15 verbal commits.

Texas has 14 verbal commits.

Notre Dame as 12 verbal commits.

Ohio State has 11 verbal commits.

Texas usually has close to a full class before the season even starts.

On NCAA, you're lucky to have 2 or 3 commits before the season starts. I think it would add a huge element of strategy if they had more guys willing to commit instantly, especially before you are able to scout them to see what kind of player they really are.
 
# 49 iromerliciousi @ 05/11/12 04:43 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DorianDonP
Yeah, I made a thread last year saying it would be nice if they reworked the recruiting a bit so that you could decide to fill up your class with instant commits or wait on guys that want to decide late in the recruiting cycle or on signing day.

As of right now in real life.

Florida has 15 verbal commits.

Texas has 14 verbal commits.

Notre Dame as 12 verbal commits.

Ohio State has 11 verbal commits.

Texas usually has close to a full class before the season even starts.

On NCAA, you're lucky to have 2 or 3 commits before the season starts. I think it would add a huge element of strategy if they had more guys willing to commit instantly, especially before you are able to scout them to see what kind of player they really are.
I would like to see this option implemented during recruiting, because like you said a lot of the programs jump start before the actual season even starts. Would be nice to also see Early Enrollee's added just to add some more depth into recruiting, but that's kind of asking a little too mcuh for right now

Texas always has a full recruiting class before the season starts because of the style Mack Brown likes to go with when it comes to recruiting. Most of their commits give pledges during Texas Jr. Day, that's how big of a grasp Texas has within the State.

Just based on what I've read and the majority of the posters on this board, a lot of us are really excited and are now hopeful that 2013 is going to be a hit. I can't wait for it to come out, because I haven't used my XBOX since I finished Dead Island 3 moths ago lol
 
# 50 cts @ 05/11/12 05:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DorianDonP
Yeah, I made a thread last year saying it would be nice if they reworked the recruiting a bit so that you could decide to fill up your class with instant commits or wait on guys that want to decide late in the recruiting cycle or on signing day.

As of right now in real life.

Florida has 15 verbal commits.

Texas has 14 verbal commits.

Notre Dame as 12 verbal commits.

Ohio State has 11 verbal commits.

Texas usually has close to a full class before the season even starts.

On NCAA, you're lucky to have 2 or 3 commits before the season starts. I think it would add a huge element of strategy if they had more guys willing to commit instantly, especially before you are able to scout them to see what kind of player they really are.
Definitely agree with the bolded statement ... that's what makes this a great idea.
 
# 51 illwill10 @ 05/12/12 11:40 AM
Even though I said I love the gem and busts, I hope there isnt a overabundance in gem and busts.
I dont want see a significant part of recruits be gems or busts. I also dont want there to be a easy way to finding gems and busts. I want to have to scout to find recruits.
I just dont want to CPU to know who the gems and busts. I dont want to see a powerhouse team go after a ton of 2-3 star players and find out they are gems
 

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