Okay so I have an idea about how recruits could be generated for each division and regions.

1. Recruits are generated like normal with all the ratings and such in tack. The big change comes from where they are placed throughout the country.

2. The United States is broken up into multiple regions to account for normal dispersement of recruits. (CA, OR, WA, AZ could be one section and TX, KS, NEB, MS could be another section) These could be changed around but the process is to get what is considered a regional base for recruits.

3. Multiple Factors goes into ranking each region for each Division 1,2 and 3 individually. Things like Major Winning and Losing records by teams in the region, NT berths, Sweet 16s, Final Fours/Championships could be apart of it. Also, you can include players that go onto the NBA through the draft as well to boost the region prestige.

4. When you rank the regions the region with the highest grade gets a better overall class of players that are then split up between the states involved.

The goal of this is to show how players get more involved with basketball when teams in the region are more successful. Now this would not mean that even though California's section sucks it would not have great players. This is a simple way of rewarding regions with a few extra good players each year for having winning programs in the area.

Would you not agree that local state colleges and even private ones have summer basketball camps and improve players around them as well as get them interested in basketball?

In the end it would hold recruit generation the same. The only difference is that the best region in the US would have a couple more of those 5 stars for D1 and such.

One last thing, each division would be separated and ranked by itself so D1 and D2 would not be combined but be calculated all by itself.

i would agree that this "regional effect" happens in real life.

but, i dont necesarily think that making HD more like real life is allways a good goal.

in this case.... what other reasons would there be for doing this?

i see that it would be a reward for the region, but im not sure i like that. you already have somehting kinda like that with the conference recruiting$ boost.

also, i really dont knwo much about how it is done now... could this type of thing be done without screwing up recruiting altogether?

I don't know if we need another rich get richer mechanism going on in HD. A+ teams in D1 are about the easiest thing in the world to maintain it seems.

This is one of the worst ideas I have heard for generating recruits. I understand what you are trying to do but this is one of the unfairest ways to distribute recruits.

Quinnipiac in Iba is hosting a camp for middle-school aged players this summer. Sign up at our website or at the community center.