Posted by ll316 on 6/14/2012 7:48:00 AM (view original):
Posted by dukenilnil on 6/13/2012 8:38:00 PM (view original):
To limit jumping on recruits at signing, I purpose the following...
Have a fairly significant recruit bonus for recruiting a player early and for giving him attention over a number of periods. I know there is the consideration credit but it is too small. This should go a long ways towards balancing out recruiting as too many coaches wait until signing or just before and snag a player who another coach has been on from the beginning. This strategy may technically be allowed under the current rules, but its certainly not fair play (or fun)
I absolutely think early effort should mean more than late effort. Why not? It's realistic. I constantly see quotes from players that praise a school because they were on them before anyone else was. Why shouldn't this refelct more in HD?
Early effort already means more than late effort. This proposal, however, would increase that advantage. With the limited budgets at DIII, that'd make it nearly impossible to recruit any player who's already spoken for.
There are also RL players who were considering one school, then a different school starts late and nabs the recruit. I can remember Kentucky taking one from Fordham, one from Washington, and two more from Memphis.