Ever tried recruiting late or poaching? It's already hard as balls, I don't know why you guys want to make it harder. Protect your recruits and man the **** up. Sometimes you have to make hard decisions when recruiting, deal with it. Maybe you think you could beat this other team that showed up on your guy in a battle, but if you do you won't be able to protect your top guy. Maybe you let guy #2 go to make sure you get your target. Maybe you go get guy #2, but as a result your top guy gets taken because you spent all your cash getting a guy who wasn't as good. Tough ****. If recruiting was easy this game would be no fun. For all you guys who are saying you spend so much time and effort in recruiting and think you should get a bonus for that, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. If you're going to spend all that time on HD, spend it wiser, make a spreadsheet/chart/diary/whatever and figure out which schools near you need what, what battles they're in, what battles they could win or lose, which guys that you want to go after are in danger. That way, you can be prepared instead of disappointed when that guy you thought was going to be your all-time leading scorer gets nabbed by Duke. This game is all about recruiting and recruiting is all about strategy and if your strategy isn't working, find a new strategy instead of trying to change the rules.