Posted by Basketts on 3/16/2019 2:31:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Benis on 3/15/2019 7:19:00 PM (view original):
"You don't have more of a reason to say it "won't work" than other's saying it will "work" because there is no data for an isolated division."
Not quite. It was pretty isolated in 2.0
Even with pull downs, it was very rare for D3 to battle D2. And D3 never battled D1 - even sims.
Ahh gotcha. I guess I haven't quite wrapped my head around pulldowns and how it used to work.
Basically before 3.0, you could reach up into the recruits for one division up and see if they were willing to talk to you. You would submit a recruiting action and at the end of the cycle, get a response that you were a backup option and they might consider you in the future. Usually the bottom 1/3 of recruits in the higher division might be willing to accept recruiting actions from you at this point, but until they were pulled down or dropped down, they could not be signed by the lower division school. If they rejected you, they would not accept further recruiting actions. This is basically where the cap existed which is why the divisions were isolated. DIII could not recruit DI players.
Dropdowns - towards the later part of the recruiting cycle, typically just before or after signings, if a recruit was not getting the attention from the schools in their own division, they would "drop down" and let the lower division coach know they were willing to sign with a lower school at this point. The risk was waiting and hoping the guys you wanted did drop down and someone was not way ahead recruiting already.
Pulldowns - If a recruit was willing to accept recruiting actions, coaches could dump home visits and such to get the recruit to drop down before they normally would, hence "pull down". The risk is dropping a lot of money on the recruit early in hopes of being the leader early and scaring off competition.
There was a set amount of money, no AP. Once signings started, recruits could sign at any cycle regardless of division (assuming he has already dropped down or has been pulled down for the lower division).