What NCAA Recruiting Should Be

[stewart#28]

You could also add a HS All American game and have 10-15 players declare at that game...put the 3 hats out and pick...I would like to see a separate area for recruiting JC players..not sure how it would work?...The idea of having a recruiting impact rating for you OC and DC would be nice...i.e Chip Kelly at Oregon has a strong impact on skill position players..and love the connection factor...brother goes to Miami, your younger brother has a better shot being a Hurricane.

[wisgator]

This is a list of things I would like to see implemented.

-HS All-American game.

-Early Enrollee's.

-More hesitant decision making for higher caliber recruits.

-More Non-Qualifiers.

-A separate list of JUCO and PREP propects.

-Give some academic numbers to the recruits. Teams like Notre Dame, Northwestern and so on, have high academic standards that the staff needs to adhere to. There are relaxed standards for athletes, but not all top prospects have the academic pedigree to make the cut at those institutions.

-Fluctuating recruit ratings. Scout and Rivals come out with revised rankings throughout the year. The best example I can give is Cierre Wood (ND signee). If I'm correct, he was the top-rated RB according to Rivals, and garnered a 5-star rating. Now he's a 4-star and has fallen to the bottom half of the Rivals top 100. Another example is Greg Reid (FSU signee). He was a Florida verbal way back in the spring of 2008 and I believe he was a lower 4-star in the first Rivals rankings. He shot up to a 5-star after his performance in the Under-Armor AA game where he had 3-int's. I would like to see the stock of some players rise or fall.

[asu666]

I miss discipline the most. It would be nice to have that be a factor so a lower tier program could take a gamble on guys that may see a lot of pine time for disciplinary reasons, but would otherwise be too good to go to a lower tier program.

[hotboydttjr]

I like the ideas being thrown out here. I would like to the rosters expanded to 100 players per team.

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by TrevJo

NCAA has so many other issues that need to be fixed aside from revamping recruiting. They have too many requests for bells and whistles to fix something that isn't broken without sacrificing quality. The only problem is that recruiting is too easy. And recruiting is too easy for one simple reason: The CPU is ******** at assessing its needs. If a CPU school has 1 good LT and 2 lousy RTs coming back, the CPU will not put much focus into recruiting LTs, because they have fulfilled the roster minimum. Now EA should listen carefully because this is the part that concerns them: The roster minimums need to be increased to 4 or 5 for positions like tackle, guard, defensive end, etc. And the CPU needs to be smarter about recognizing weaknesses and needs for the future. Fix this! A further problem along the same lines (but not directly related to recruiting) is that a CPU team with two 85 LGs and two 70 RGs will start one of each instead of starting both LGs.

Agree 1000%. The people who created the code, database, A.I., whatever, that is used for CPU recruiting and roster management made mistakes that have haunted the dynasty mode practically since its inception over a decade ago.

I've asked for this bolded part to be fixed in some wish list every year for at least the last ten years, but not this year. I've given up hope of ever seeing it fixed, since it obviously is a low-to-non existent priority for the D team, or way too resource intensive for the perceived limited impact fixing it would have.

[mwjr]

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While I used to readily give this label to NFL Draft day, excessive media hype, substance-light coverage and an influx of under-informed fan know-it-alls have soured the once sweet taste of that special weekend in May.

*sigh*

The NFl Draft is in April. No offense, but you lose credibility when you can't even get some of the basics correct.

[JohnDoh]

All great idea by the OP. One thing I would add as well is the ability for recruits to rise and fall along the ESPNU Top 150 throughout the year. Say you start recruiting a kid outside of that top 150 and all the sudden he is having a great senior year (with stats provided) and he jumps into the Top 150. Likewise, kids that are having poor senior campaigns or maybe get hurt, could drop from the Top 150. I prefer the Rivals format for recruiting but being EA has the ESPN license, use the Top 150 format that changes throughout the course of the recruiting year... it would add alot!

[dansaint]

One pitch I'd love to see in the game is "family connection". You see a lot of times a kid will go to a school because his father was a great player there...or his grandfather...or a brother.

As with all...don't overdo it...but allow you to really push that...the family legacy.