Posted by rmancil on 5/30/2012 7:31:00 PM (view original):
Vision improves with winning your key is avoiding locking heads with Nichols he has you on rating and coaching exp so you will lose most of the time when you go head to head. But your in a real good area to land talent so you should be able to see what his needs are and try and avoid the same players. He will be able to see players that you don't and recruit them. Knowing that when you see a good player or a couple scout the two a recruit only your best even if you need both at least early on then if no one jumps the 2nd player take a shot. Better to land 1 good solid player than to lose both. Greed kills look at how they scout out and be sure to have a solid practice plan in place. Don't try and run to many defenses or offenses choose no more than 4 tp 5 in total and practice them . Keep a strong eye on development and on the pct of the types of offense and defense you run. adjust your practice to match. Be sure to red shirt 3 players who have strong growth potential and know that it does take a few seasons to put your stamp on a team. Don't switch your formations once you commit and if you like a couple equally look at what the players were skilled at previously. A quick look at your team tells me that your over loaded on offense formations and one short on defense you need to have a base defense and a pass defense also your sim coached team was well balanced so you have a ton of options . I would look at my two conference rivals formations and pick mine to off set theirs. Good luck. ps Be sure to decide on your formations before you recuit the types and numbers of players and positions are real important. 

Posted by jc1796 on 5/30/2012 11:30:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rmancil on 5/30/2012 7:31:00 PM (view original):
Vision improves with winning your key is avoiding locking heads with Nichols he has you on rating and coaching exp so you will lose most of the time when you go head to head. But your in a real good area to land talent so you should be able to see what his needs are and try and avoid the same players. He will be able to see players that you don't and recruit them. Knowing that when you see a good player or a couple scout the two a recruit only your best even if you need both at least early on then if no one jumps the 2nd player take a shot. Better to land 1 good solid player than to lose both. Greed kills look at how they scout out and be sure to have a solid practice plan in place. Don't try and run to many defenses or offenses choose no more than 4 tp 5 in total and practice them . Keep a strong eye on development and on the pct of the types of offense and defense you run. adjust your practice to match. Be sure to red shirt 3 players who have strong growth potential and know that it does take a few seasons to put your stamp on a team. Don't switch your formations once you commit and if you like a couple equally look at what the players were skilled at previously. A quick look at your team tells me that your over loaded on offense formations and one short on defense you need to have a base defense and a pass defense also your sim coached team was well balanced so you have a ton of options . I would look at my two conference rivals formations and pick mine to off set theirs. Good luck. ps Be sure to decide on your formations before you recuit the types and numbers of players and positions are real important. 

Good stuff - thanks for the long detailed answer!!  Quick follow up - would you focus on maybe 2 offensive (one run, one pass) and 2 (one run, one pass) defensive alignments?

Posted by rmancil on 5/30/2012 7:52:00 PM (view original):
It seems to me that if two or more clubs are fighting for a player that your right that if you fail to turn him green early on he will stay yellow even with you in a good lead.

Posted by bhouska on 5/31/2012 1:39:00 PM (view original):
In DIII, be very careful battling sims for recruits.  It gets expensive.  Personally, I'd stay within 180 miles.  You can try <360 miles, but I for sure wouldn't go over that.

Find an undecided, much cheaper.

Posted by biggamefan on 5/31/2012 4:19:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bhouska on 5/31/2012 1:39:00 PM (view original):
In DIII, be very careful battling sims for recruits.  It gets expensive.  Personally, I'd stay within 180 miles.  You can try <360 miles, but I for sure wouldn't go over that.

Find an undecided, much cheaper.

One thing I was told a long time ago about battling sims has seemed to work really well for me. I have never seemed to have much trouble at all with sims since. The way to beat a sim is to attack early and spend the per recruit allocation. i.e. in D3 you get $3000 per recruit. So spend $3100 in 1 or 2 cycles and the sim will go away. If you do not want to spend that much, you may be in for a long fight. If you wait to long or spend it to slowly, the sim will not go away.

It would make sense for the SIM recruiting to work this way.  If it cost more to beat a SIM than the per-recruit allocation we would all fail every season

i use interest in SIMs as my first cut, before i even look at attributes to narrow down the pool im gonna actually scout.
if a guy has SIMs on him before the first cycle i will not even consider him 9 times outta 10 (if not higher)
there are just too many fish in the DIII sea to bother battling with SIMs.
I dont think i've battled a SIM for more than one or two guys in the last 5 classes.

Posted by bhouska on 6/4/2012 9:13:00 AM (view original):

It would make sense for the SIM recruiting to work this way.  If it cost more to beat a SIM than the per-recruit allocation we would all fail every season

You would only fail if you battled Sims for every recruit.  That's my whole point.  You don't have to battle Sims to get good talent.

Posted by gmc_sierra on 5/30/2012 9:42:00 PM (view original):
Thank you rmancil for giving this clinic a try . .When recruiting for LB's , what attributes do you look for that determines a good Inside linebacker and also for a good Outside linebacker . Same question for Defensive backs , with regards to Corner and Safeties . I currently practice for 3 Def. sets .4-3 , 4-4 , 5-2 . Hope to drop 4-4 for 3-4 in the future if I can get the depth I would need .