After the 1st cycle, if you cut a player, can you increase your recruiting budget going into the second cycle? IS it even possible to cut a player during this time?

There is a period of time after the season ends, before RS2 when you can cut players. You can cut players throughout RS2. You will get additional recruiting/scouting $ if the player you cut was recruiting by a different coach.

where is this option? i can’t find it.

i’m on the Coaching/Manage Roster page and . . . nothing. Guidance will be appreciated.

You're on the right page, but as Wales said, you can only do this during recruiting season 2. During that time, it will give you an option to rescind scholarship. That will not even be visible outside of RS2.

Problem is that RS2 started a few hours ago in Knight and there is still no option to rescind scholarships. I'm now able to assign AP but still no option to cut any of the previous coaches' players (although I'm not planning to cut any).

Huh. I'm in Knight, and the option is there for me. Maybe because you don't have any seasons available or you didn't renew??

i do think you have to have a season to cut players - or did at some point

Guess it's not there for new coaches maybe (I just switched to OSU from EWU). I definitely am renewed for next season (and don't have the option to click renew again). So definitely something is up.

[Edit] All I can do is offer scholarships to the walk ons still on the roster. Can't cut any of the previous coaches' players.

Posted by buddhagamer on 5/14/2021 7:59:00 PM (view original):
Guess it's not there for new coaches maybe (I just switched to OSU from EWU). I definitely am renewed for next season (and don't have the option to click renew again). So definitely something is up.

[Edit] All I can do is offer scholarships to the walk ons still on the roster. Can't cut any of the previous coaches' players.

OSU can’t rescind because you have 6 open scholarships. Once you sign a guy, you will have the option to cut a guy.

good call shoe, that sounds like it has to be it. that happened to me a couple times in 3.0, shoulda remembered - but anyway the good thing was - as soon as you sign a guy, you can cut another and get more resources. back in the day it let you cut and cut but you stopped getting more money after 6. so bit of a mixed bag, but that definitely helps offset the annoyance of only being able to cut down to 6. you cant have more than 140 AP available but if you sign 1 and drop to 120AP, then you go back up to 140AP when you cut someone, plus get the additional 3k for the recruit (or however much per division)