….and I've never done an assistant search for recruiting. Forgot it was even an option when FSS scouting 1st came out.

Will try it this season proving you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.

Good for scouting internationals at D2/D3. Otherwise I never use it.

Seriously? What other options are there besides Assistant Search??

You may need a mentor, mully

I don't use assistant often either. For D2, as soon as the season begins, I run 200 kids to my school camp. It runs 2 hours later. During that 2 hour wait, I FSS all neighboring states. That gives me a pool of 150 to 175 recruits to level 3 immediately (depending on how far I reach away, as far as state selection). And I have roughly 10k scouting budget left. I do absolutely nothing besides look at that pool of players, from then until RS1 begins to process.

That 150 to 175 pool is generally where my players come from. I do some other things with that 10k once things are up and running. But I usually end up with players I prefer, from my original pool. Short and sweet.

Posted by topdogggbm on 11/2/2018 8:06:00 PM (view original):
I don't use assistant often either. For D2, as soon as the season begins, I run 200 kids to my school camp. It runs 2 hours later. During that 2 hour wait, I FSS all neighboring states. That gives me a pool of 150 to 175 recruits to level 3 immediately (depending on how far I reach away, as far as state selection). And I have roughly 10k scouting budget left. I do absolutely nothing besides look at that pool of players, from then until RS1 begins to process.

That 150 to 175 pool is generally where my players come from. I do some other things with that 10k once things are up and running. But I usually end up with players I prefer, from my original pool. Short and sweet.

How does FSS neighboring states get you up to level 3 immediately? Something isn’t adding up here..

Posted by zagsrulez on 11/3/2018 1:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by topdogggbm on 11/2/2018 8:06:00 PM (view original):
I don't use assistant often either. For D2, as soon as the season begins, I run 200 kids to my school camp. It runs 2 hours later. During that 2 hour wait, I FSS all neighboring states. That gives me a pool of 150 to 175 recruits to level 3 immediately (depending on how far I reach away, as far as state selection). And I have roughly 10k scouting budget left. I do absolutely nothing besides look at that pool of players, from then until RS1 begins to process.

That 150 to 175 pool is generally where my players come from. I do some other things with that 10k once things are up and running. But I usually end up with players I prefer, from my original pool. Short and sweet.

How does FSS neighboring states get you up to level 3 immediately? Something isn’t adding up here..

He’s referring to the private camp revealing 2 levels, I think, and drawing from a 500 mile radius. So once that’s done, you have most of those guys at level 3 (local top 100 players who came to your camp at level 4, if applicable).

For me, the big reason I no longer use camps, and go strictly FSS and assistant, is that I want control over the geography of my pool. If I get 200 guys in my local 500m radius to level 3, I have very little budget room to scout nationally or internationally. So I’m abdicating the guys who want to play far away who are sometimes better than the guys who prefer to stay local.

Shoe was correct. FSS is 1 level. School camp is 2 levels in one scouting effort. Those combined put me at level 3 with a big pool of players.

And personally, I don't scout internationals often. Tons of good players there. So I miss out on some I'm sure. But we all use different methods that work for us.

I don’t use camps. Am I missing something? Using assistant search 5-8 times every recruiting session

Posted by zorzii on 11/4/2018 10:05:00 AM (view original):
I don’t use camps. Am I missing something? Using assistant search 5-8 times every recruiting session

I wouldn't say you're missing something. Everyone has different methods that work for them.

But if you don't use camps ($0 spent), you DO use assistant 8 times ($12k spent), and I'll assume you use some FSS (not very expensive, so I'll guess $8k to put a dollar figure on it)..... there's still a lot of budget left over.

Do you do a lot of individual scouting? That can be costly.