What are your guys opinions on how to win a recruiting battle. If I spend 9,000 dollars before a coach spends barely any, will he have to spend 9,000 or more to beat me out assuming we're the same prestige/location/division?

Any advice on how to win recruiting battles would also be very appreciated! Thanks everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!

Pretty much. You also have to take into acount amount of recruiting effort. For example, $9,000 worth of CV's/HV's will be worth more effort than $9,000 of phone calls/letters

IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!

Sorry, had to do it.

Huh?

Anyone got anything else to add perhaps?

Depending on what level you're playing at man it might be better to not battle. In the d2 and d3 levels there are lots of guys with similar skills and frankly the budgets are too small to be spending 9 grand on one guy when you could just look somewhere else and find a similar player for less than half the cost of battling. You may very well win the battle but you could also lose and if you do you're gonna get stuck with walk ons. But all things being equal, I agree with usc4life.

Well I made sure to sign 5 guys and I have 2 reserve players just in case I lose the battle, so I have my bases covered.

there are great old threads and players guides that you should read for lots of discussion about recruiting

some notes

- keep in mind that it is $$ it is effort - meaning that if you are spending 700 on a home visit and the other guy is closer and spending 300 he can spend a lot less $ and have a lot more impact

- prestige - matters a lot

- considering credit gives some benefit for early effort - but only after the first day and it isnt big

- different tactics in different divisions - in general, in DIII and DII it will usually be wise to avoid battles because there usually are plenty of similar players

read the players guide and old threads

Posted by fd343ny on 11/26/2011 8:28:00 AM (view original):
there are great old threads and players guides that you should read for lots of discussion about recruiting

some notes

- keep in mind that it is $$ it is effort - meaning that if you are spending 700 on a home visit and the other guy is closer and spending 300 he can spend a lot less $ and have a lot more impact

- prestige - matters a lot

- considering credit gives some benefit for early effort - but only after the first day and it isnt big

- different tactics in different divisions - in general, in DIII and DII it will usually be wise to avoid battles because there usually are plenty of similar players

read the players guide and old threads

"considering credit gives some benefit for early effort - but only after the first day and it isn't big"

FDNY -

Does this mean a guy who was considering me the previous season but went unsigned will have "credit" the next year, but only on the first day of recruiting?

If I understand that correctly, is it the first "day" for early effort or the first "cycle" for early effort?

folks usually use considering credit to me the small extra benefit you earn while a guy is considering you in the current cycle - gives some "interest" on early effort and to soome degree deters poaching

when a guy considers you but is unsigned because he goes juco, some percentage of your effort carries over,  I think 50% but unsure.  I dont know whether there is any carryover if a guy considers you but signs with no one just because no one signs him.  I guess it probably does - but dont jknow.