TCY WTF? (recruiting)

[Hijinx]

having played TCY obsessively for quite some time now, I know there's years when you're just going to have an off year recruiting no matter what, but...

I'm playing a dynasty where I've picked up the Oklahoma job in 2050+, and it's a major rebuilding job. I am getting to the point where I can win 8-9 games comfortably, and my recruiting classes are made up mostly of one or two guys in the top 100, a handful in the 200-300 range and the most rest from the top 1000 with a couple of guys that maybe weren't ranked.

Then, in one season, I picked up a commit around week 8 and got dissed by every single recruit I offered until around week 13. my recruiting class that year is one guy ranked around 184 (the first commit, a fullback), a quarterback ranked around 900, and a bunch of guys that would normally be walk on candidates. I didn't offer a full class, because it'd be a waste of scholarships - but I couldn't sign a class of only two players, either.

ouch! Anyone else had that kind of year? I'm hoping it doesn't derail the rebuilding project that's been moving along nicely.

[Ben E Lou]

How were the congeniality ratings of your coordinators? I found out the hard way during my current TCY career that it makes more of a difference than I had realized. I'd gotten my team to the point where I didn't need to sign anyone with an SAT below 1300 or so, so I stopped worrying about having enough coaching blocks to go around with so many smart players, so I stopped being concerned about Congeniality. After back-to-back recruiting seasons like the ones you just described (and this was with a team with Prestige around 90 and Academic ratings in the high 80's to high 90's), I got new coordinators with solid congeniality ratings, and my recruit classes went back up to where they had been.

[Grego]

Hijinx (or anyone else that may know), is it impossible to improve the academic rating of a team you switch to , as it is with an original team after dozen years or so?

[Hijinx]

I have to admit that I don't follow the academic overall rating *that* closely, but I've had the academic ratings of my teams improve overall in each of my last 3 dynasty games...

but I'm a real stickler for recruiting kids with good grades - I have better luck developing lower ranked guys who only need study time below 15 as opposed to the guys that need a lot of study time.

Skydog, my coordinators' congeniality rating is middle of the road... I don't expect to sign a bunch of world beating classes, but this one was so out of the range of any other class that I've signed, ever - two guys in the top 1000. I've wondered how much congeniality effects recruiting, anyone have a firm idea about this?