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What NCAA Recruiting Should Be

01:53 PM - February 6, 2009 by RaychelSnr

Feb. 04, 2009 – National Signing Day. The best offseason day in all of sports.

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.

National Signing Day, like college football itself, is much more of a niche product than the NFL and the NFL Draft. Fan conversations, online or otherwise, tend to be smarter and more detailed. The coverage, particularly by sites like Rivals and Scout is unparalleled. The slightly under-the-radar nature of the whole event makes it that much more enjoyable to the hardcore college football fan.

Reveling in the nine-hour ESPNU coverage this past Wednesday, all of the fanfare got me thinking: How can the NCAA Football series better emulate the landscape of modern college football recruiting?

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# 41 Bears9Gould @ 03/03/09 10:45 PM

This was a great article.
I would love to see all this happen and I was thinking about how the "generation" player, the one who's dad and maybe grandpa, or even great grandpa went to that school should have an effect on where that kid goes to school to play. And there be the players like this years Je'Ron Stokes (Michigan) and his brother (Malik) who is a junior, it would like the same school thing, but that have Malik was a QB his brother was WR, and Malik favorite target was probably his brother, that's years of throwing the ball back and fourth to each other.

And the athlete thing is a joke, you find lineman on there that play receiver.
Lastly with the new coaching thing for 10, its not like NFL where you coach, your a coach and recruiter, so add more stuff for recruiting.

# 42 DF32 @ 03/05/09 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Im with u on this one ...these are great ideas...have EA add the Rivals type function where ranking rise nd fall week by week. Also add week by week stats and the Army All-American game or the Under Armor Game with users can play with the prospects to get a feel of wat those prospects can bring to their team

# 43 MrDhWhat @ 04/05/09 05:46 PM

much needed improvement for NCAA.

# 44 tyler741 @ 04/05/09 07:07 PM

All recruits put on the Sorting Hat (yes, the one from Harry Potter)

Problem solved.

All jokes aside, these were wonderful ideas along with many in the comments as well.

# 45 bamaCT12 @ 04/05/09 07:24 PM

there are too many 5 stars, there's like 50 in each class, should be like 20. Plus the cpu teams in dynasty mode need to recruit more realistically, for example someone like USC, Alabama, or Ohio State, should be top 10 every year, i rarely see them in the top 10
It needs to be tougher to get out of state recruits, especially when they're from states like louisiana or alabama. Places like Florida and California out of state schools seem to get.
Somehow, you need to be able to land more recruits, the top classes usually have around 25-27 commits in each class.

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