PointGuard wrote:Added #2 and #3. #1 was already on the list.
Re #4:
a. An in-state player will ALWAYS visit your school, even those who don't have interest. Some in-state recruits of course will just not be interested in your school, no matter what...and won't accept a call, but others will. That seems realistic to me.
b. For a lower prestige school, it's sometimes tough to get recruits within the region to visit...particularly those with low to mid level rankings. And even more difficult to get out-of-region recruits to visit. Again, this seems realistic to me.
c. Prestige doesn't jump up quickly based on one season or one game. Prestige tends to move up or down in small increments. And it's based on your team's results over several consecutive seasons. But as prestige improves, recruiting becomes easier.
d. What's your recruiting level? That also affects how easy it is to get players interested, accepting campus visits, responding to calls, and accepting scholarship offers.
e. I have added some of our comments re #4 to the list, though.
Thanks for adding 2 and 3. Good to see 1 already in there. I have a 5th that I forgot to add
Make a multiteam game easier - I'm running a personal game where I have six teams right now and saving, exporting, exiting, loading, recruiting, saving, exporting, exiting, loading....etc...etc...etc. I can update depth charts, practice, coach assignments, and other things from the commissioner account, but recruiting and reading messages are a challenge.
And back to 4 - the specific example that I was referencing was a league where I'm running Northern Arizona and I won a play-in game for the 16 seed, then knocked off Kentucky in the 1-16 match-up. I'm not suggesting that 4 or 5 star recruits should have come flocking to Flagstaff, but a few recruits who wouldn't have taken my calls or a visit in February probably would have taken that call after seeing NAU all over the news. There were no other reasons preventing PG prospects from coming for a visit - I had two open scholarships and zero PGs returning for the next season. If I'm correct in equating prestige with name-recognition, name-recognition for NAU would skyrocket after beating the number one overall team.
Some way of marking momentum in the game would add to the realism to me. Recruiting with a low program like NAU should be hard, but a win like that should have some impact.
There's no need to continue a back and forth on this, but I want to be sure that my point was clear.