What if teams had to actually "schedule" HVs and a CV with prospects.
When you click on a prospect, a scheduling calendar would come up listing each cycle throughout the entire recruiting periods - early and late. There would be 6 openings per cycle for teams to schedule a HV or a CV with that prospect. One team could only schedule two per cycle.
Once those 6 openings were filled up, there would be no more visits for that player in that cycle, so you'd have to schedule one for later. Once you schedule one, if you back out it hurts you with that prospect. The player could also see all of the HVs that were coming up, so if D- Lamar was leading on a recruit, but A+ Texas had a visit scheduled two cycles from that time, the prospect might wait until the Texas visit before he decided to commit to Lamar.
It's a whole new approach, but would be really interesting in my opinion. You'd want to plan ahead. The money would be deducted when you scheduled it, but if a player signed before you visited them, or if you backed out before the visit, you'd get it back.
Teams that were expecting EEs could go ahead and schedule visits ahead of time with late prospects.
If you were visiting several prospects in the same cycle that were in the same city or state, the cost could go down.
You would also have a team scheduling page, showing the entire recruiting calendar and showing where you had scheduled visits. So if you has LSU it might look like:
COACH'S RECRUITING SCHEDULE
Cycle 1 - Slot 1: Billy Smith - Fort Worth, TX - $300
Cycle 1 - Slot 2: Jimmy Dean - Tyler, TX - $50 (since you were already in Fort Worth)
Cycle 1 Slot 3: Billy Morman - Salt Lake City, UT - $600 (since it costs a bit to get there)
Cycle 1 - Slot 4: OPEN
Cycle 1 - Slot 5: OPEN
Cycle 1 - Slot 1: Billy Smith - Fort Worth, TX - $400 - (Maximum Visits on this prospect this cycle)
On Billy Smith's page it might look like this:
BILLY SMITH - RECRUITING SCHEDULE
PERIOD 1
Cycle 1 - Slot 1 - LSU - HV
Cycle 1 - Slot 2 - TEXAS - CV
Cycle 1 - Slot 3 - OPEN
Cycle 1 - Slot 4 - TCU - HV
Cycle 1 - Slot 5: OPEN
Cycle 1 - Slot 6 - LSU - HV
Cycle 2 - Slot 1 - TEXAS - HV
Cycle 2 - Slot 2 - OPEN
Cycle 2 - Slot 3 - OPEN
Cycle 2 - Slot 4 - ARKANSAS CV
Cycle 2 - Slot 5: BAYLOR HV
Cycle 2 - Slot 6 - OPEN
So, if you were Texas A&M, You'd probably want to go head and schedule visits with him right away because his calendar was filling up.
You could also have the prospect reject teams, if their schedule was getting tight from desirable teams. But perhaps use of AP could sway the prospect to allowing visits.
2/18/2017 11:06 AM (edited)