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Quote: Originally Posted By acn24 on 5/24/2010
If you are battling other DIII programs you are probably shooting too low.

(1) That's not true in Wooden, at least not in my experience. There were three or four battles between top ten teams last year.

(2) The extra cash can also help you pull down a recruit from more than a couple hundred miles away.

Not necessarily, acn24. I won a battle against a A+ D3 team for a D2-level talent. And I think having extra cash (by sacrificing one schollie) made a difference there.

I agree that it makes more sense in D3, in D1, there are a lot of seasons I've rolled over 15k+ even after the 25% reduction. If I can roll over that much and still get solid talent across the board, then I plan to roll it over. However, if I have to sacrafice a spot on my team and skip 1 battle to ensure that I win another, then the walk-on doesn't bother me.

You carryover that much cash because you can travel about 800 miles in any direction before you find another DI school (yet are in a populous state), and because no one would dare challenge the mighty taz in a recruiting battle.

You might as well given the advice "well, let them eat cake". ;)

I almost always start at least 1 FR, and sometimes 2 on all my teams. I'd rather start a FR 15 mpg rather then taking a walk on usually, but thats just because I start them enough to know it doesn't hurt me. Knowing this, I go into recruiting with a plan to sign 1 or 2 players for a promised start and like 3-5 calls, 2-4 coach calls and a ship. Both are signed for 300 bucks or less, which is similar to taking 1-2 walk ons. After that, I plan on accepting at least 1 walk on if the recruit is special enough to risk it. I can snag any top level recruit in iba, and several coaches have seen it and hate it. It is the best strat in the game imo, and CSU chico felt it a few seasons ago. Swift felt it this season. In crum, I forget who but another top coach felt it there. I have 10-25k to blow on 1-2 recruits, and 99 out of 100 times nobody can match it in the lower levels. I bombed CSU with over 12k in 1 cycle. Swift felt 9.7k over 2 cycles in iba this season, crum coach felt 9k in 1 cycle. Even in div III, I forget who, but for a SF I bombed 8k on him right before signings doing what I do and kicked him off the recruit.



If I didn't sign for cheap and just took a walk on, it'd be no different money wise. It ****** people off, but it works great at the lower levels.