Posted by timjmiller on 5/10/2015 1:16:00 PM (view original):
Big time recruits in real life are way less likely to have allegiance to a team close to home. A #1 recruit in the nation would probably not attend Minnesota just because he is 10 miles from campus. He'd be touring on the AAU circuit and be visiting UNC, UCLA, Kentucky, and Indiana.
My suggestion is make the top 10 or top 5 recruits easy to recruit nationally. That would pit some of the bigger schools against each other in battles and leave opportunities for other schools to be able to land top recruit's since they are more likely to be able to battle with big schools. Currently it's just a game of who can get the best recruits generated in their area.
This is an interesting idea that I want to expand on. Maybe there's a "Recruit Caliber Type" category...the top 5 players at each position are considered "National Recruits" meaning it doesn't matter school attempts to recruit the player it's treated as if they were 360 miles away because everyone is "familiar with this national recruit".
This would get the top schools with most month battling for the top recruits, thus opening the door lower-Big 6 and Mid-Majors to have an opportunity to go for other recruits OR maybe forcing top schools to spend more on the top recruits and limit the rollover.
Taking this a step further maybe recruits ranked 6-10 for each position would be considered regional recruits (West, Central, Southeast, Northeast) and any school within the region would recruit as if the recruit was 150 miles away.....
I'm just kind of thinking outloud.....