If anything, recruiting should be rolled up into a Football Budget. If you want to keep left over money, then make us have to pay for coaches salaries (better coach - more $$$ - better player improvement - like HBD), pay for Trainers/Therapists (decreases injuries and recovery times), let us send certain players to "camp" to really improve skills, pay for better scouts (more $$$ - better reports), set value box for CV (from $1000 in increments to $50000) and you only get to offer it once, rather than multiple visits, make coaching visits have more impact and you can only visit one recruit each cycle. Take away the e-mail that tells if you are leading or not when the player is yellow and a scholarship is on the table. And make it a few turns before they sign - even if they are green. It would also be interesting to have players call the school after recruiting starts, maybe 4 - 5 cycles after you have scouted them, and say they would like to play for you. There are lots of ideas that could be incorporated to make recruiting more fun.