I have an idea for fixing recruiting, maybe its been proposed before. What if they increased the amount of AP's per scholarship? That would actally allow for teams to develop backup options while competing for the players you want. RIght now, in order to develop backup options you have to almost give up on your main options to even just unlock a scholarship for backup options.
In a recent recruiting period, I had 4 open scholarships, I was in a hard fought battle for a guy, I had to go all in on HVs, CVs, Promise start, 25 Promise minutes to keep myself in contention with the two other teams that had the same prestige as me. Then I had a choice, I could either stay all in with APs on this guy with 20 APs to spend on my other 3 targets plus my backup options, or I could stop pumping APs into this guy, and severly hurt my chances to win because my oponnents would be. I decided to go 80 on him because this guy was a program changer. I lost two of my other targets, and I signed one, that signing of one gave me only 80 APs to spend, so I could then go 80 on my main target, and have no back up options, or I could cut some APs off my main target. I cut 10 APs of my main target to slowly (extremly slowly) unlock someone else. I then lost my main target after going all in on everything, and 943 APs. Its now late, all of the good players are already considering people, and I have no players with unlocked scholarships. Had I had more APs, I could have not had to lose those other targets I had, or I could have other players unlocked scholarships for.
With 4 scholarships you should be able to fight for more than one guy, at least 2 guys. I am suggesting bumb it up to at least 35 APs.