You only get money for 6 scholarships. I took over a team with no players on it last year in Crum and found that out the hard way. It definitely makes recruiting tough, but it can be done.

Is there a forum post that can help with finding the juco's and transfers? The mechanism that is.

Posted by ethan66 on 6/16/2011 2:38:00 PM (view original):
Start shopping for transfers.  You can usually find some decent ones without resorting to pulldowns, and grab them cheaply even if you have to battle a Simmie.

I personally hate large class sizes, just because it means I'm faced with rebuilding every 4 years when the guts of my team graduate.  If I were you, I'd sign no more than 5 freshmen, redshirt one of them, and get whatever transfers I can get (call their coach to see what Off/Def they're playing, since they won't have as many years to learn your system).

Taking a couple of walk-ons isn't the end of the world when you have that kind of problem.  The good news is that with a full recruiting budget you should be able to target some nice pulldowns to get your team off to a good start.

Posted by tianyi7886 on 6/18/2011 3:35:00 AM (view original):

Posted by ethan66 on 6/16/2011 2:38:00 PM (view original):
Start shopping for transfers.  You can usually find some decent ones without resorting to pulldowns, and grab them cheaply even if you have to battle a Simmie.

I personally hate large class sizes, just because it means I'm faced with rebuilding every 4 years when the guts of my team graduate.  If I were you, I'd sign no more than 5 freshmen, redshirt one of them, and get whatever transfers I can get (call their coach to see what Off/Def they're playing, since they won't have as many years to learn your system).

Taking a couple of walk-ons isn't the end of the world when you have that kind of problem.  The good news is that with a full recruiting budget you should be able to target some nice pulldowns to get your team off to a good start.

Why would you only sign purposely 5 FR when you can sign 6 (assuming there aren't great JUCO/transfers on board)? If class size is your concern, RS 1 this yr, RS a So. the following yr and your class size is reduced to 4. 

Posted by hughesjr on 6/18/2011 12:48:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tianyi7886 on 6/18/2011 3:35:00 AM (view original):

Posted by ethan66 on 6/16/2011 2:38:00 PM (view original):
Start shopping for transfers.  You can usually find some decent ones without resorting to pulldowns, and grab them cheaply even if you have to battle a Simmie.

I personally hate large class sizes, just because it means I'm faced with rebuilding every 4 years when the guts of my team graduate.  If I were you, I'd sign no more than 5 freshmen, redshirt one of them, and get whatever transfers I can get (call their coach to see what Off/Def they're playing, since they won't have as many years to learn your system).

Taking a couple of walk-ons isn't the end of the world when you have that kind of problem.  The good news is that with a full recruiting budget you should be able to target some nice pulldowns to get your team off to a good start.

Why would you only sign purposely 5 FR when you can sign 6 (assuming there aren't great JUCO/transfers on board)? If class size is your concern, RS 1 this yr, RS a So. the following yr and your class size is reduced to 4. 

Redshirting a Sophomore is not usually easy to do without a huge drop in WE (it is possible to do it and have no WE drop, but it is much harder than a freshman).

There is nothing bad about using 6 scholarships worth of money to sign 5 (or even 4) guys and taking 1 or 2 walkons.  You get to spend more money per recruit (6 recruits worth of cash for 4 guys) ... and you get cash for the 2 walkon recruits when they leave too.  This also gets you a better class distribution.

You will likely get better players when taking 4 guys this year and 2 next year with 8 players worth of cash than 6 this year with 6 players worth of cash.

Certainly there is nothing wrong with filling all your schollys every year ... but it is also a valid strategy to take a couple of walkons and focus on a smaller number of better players when you have a bunch of players in one class.

Posted by tbarket on 6/16/2011 2:37:00 PM (view original):

Is there a forum post that can help with finding the juco's and transfers? The mechanism that is.

Posted by car_crazy_v2 on 6/19/2011 6:22:00 PM (view original):
I would put all my cash into getting a strong 6-man freshman class. It will pay off in the end. At the higher levels, JUCOs and Transfers are more important in my opinion because prestige plays a bigger factor. But at this point, you need to get some high potential freshman and play them major minutes. You will be on the fast track to winning if you follow that formula for the next 3 recruiting seasons. 

Thank you for the advice, I am leaning on the 5 freshman, 2 walkons and Juco transfers.  That way, I can maximize my current budget for 6 on only 5, try to find a couple of transfers that are interested in my school up front, (to save some rucruiting money), and 2 walkons so that I can move 2 scholarships to the following season.  If the Juco's have 2 or 3 years eligibility that will be good as well as I will then be able to spead out the needs per year a little better in the future, 4 years from now I may allow another walk on to get that years need to 4.  Thats about were I would like to keep it.  How soon do any of you send out a scholarship offer?  i have been reading some posts and it seems like the 3rd or 4th contact (phone call to coach / scouting - call to home / invite to campus (scholarship offer)).  Does that sound like a proper strategy?