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ukdukefan
July 11th, 2007, 06:12 AM
Basically, i love college hoops 2k7 but perhaps its abit easy sometimes to land a lot of good or great recruits. For example, i've loaded my Morgan State team with 12 players, 11 3* and 1 4* prospect. I've now got decent 3* prospects sitting it out on the bench. Heres something i would like to see that i think could improve this.

Each player would have a 'recruiting Matrix' which would basically outline their ambitions. For example, one of the top 3* recruits may be willing to be a role player on a top side, but if he signs for a small conference team, he would want to be the big fish, always starting. This way a small conference team would have to recruit some 2 or 1* players to be on the bench as role players.

What this would do is, if you had a small team with 9 three star players, the ones who arent starting would become unhappy and transfer. This would also then allow for individual personalities. For example, there may be the odd 3* recruit who is just happy to be on a roster, this is something you would have to factor in when recruiting. There may be a 5* player who wants to start as a freshman. If he signed for a big team who didn't start him, he would look to transfer. this would stop teams being loaded with all the talent.

They could then add onto this expectations per year. For example, my three star recruit may be happy to be a role player for my small conference team for his freshman or sophmore year but in his junior year he wants to be a starter. If he's not then he's unhappy an wants to leave.

Below I have put in an example

Tommy Tester is a 3* Recruit, here is his 'Ambitions/Recruiting Matrix'

Freshman Sophmore Junior Senoir
Power Team Happy 2 b Here Happy 2 b Here Happy 2 B Here happy 2 B here
Major happy 2 b Here Happy 2 b Here Role Player Role Player
Mid Major Happy 2 b Here Role Player Role Player Role player
Small Role Player Role Player Starter Starter

As you can see, if you were a small conference team, you would need to make sure that he would be a role player in his Freshman and Sophmore year, but would need to offer him a starting role for his Junior or Senior year or 'bye bye'

Of course, a more ambitious player may want to be a starter on the Power teams by Senior Year, or a Starter on Smaller teams in Freshman year etc.

This would mean you would have to put more thought into your recruiting.

Thrill703
July 11th, 2007, 09:33 AM
This is an awesome idea...more involved recruiting would definitely improve the game. I think they also ought to be able to have select conversations with recruits like in NCAA Football 08.

ukdukefan
July 13th, 2007, 01:26 AM
Agreed, the guys wants to a starter in year 1, phone him and tell him, you will start for us in year 1. Come on 2k, more in depth recruiting.

Oh, and an option to send an email every day, rather than having to keep going in and email everyone on your target list every day, that gets well annoying i tell thee.

charliemike
July 13th, 2007, 06:58 AM
Agreed, the guys wants to a starter in year 1, phone him and tell him, you will start for us in year 1. Come on 2k, more in depth recruiting.

Oh, and an option to send an email every day, rather than having to keep going in and email everyone on your target list every day, that gets well annoying i tell thee.

ROFL, am I supposed to be emailing the recruits every day? Is that why I'm not getting the recruits I had shots at?

ukdukefan
July 13th, 2007, 07:27 AM
You can email a recruit 5 times a week, if you do it once a day he may go up by 1 or 2% a week. Doesn't sound much but over the course of the whole recruiting period its a big difference.

One of the 3* recruits I was recruiting once had me at 100% but 2nd in their list and someone else at 100%. I kept emailing every day and in the last week of recruiting we jumped to first on his list, he signed with me as soon as the signing period started.

Thrill703
July 13th, 2007, 09:50 AM
I thought you could only email a recruit once a week....am I wrong?

ukdukefan
July 14th, 2007, 01:10 PM
Yep, 5 times a week (although I'm PS2, may be different on other consoles, I'm not sure)

QBoroMadThoro
July 18th, 2007, 06:40 PM
Yep, 5 times a week (although I'm PS2, may be different on other consoles, I'm not sure)

Yea, on 360 its once a week.

Great idea on the recruiting matrix. I'd like to see a Coaching Reputation, based on what you tell your recruits when recruting them and then what happens once they actually play for you.

Like the guy said earlier about NCAA '08, but I'd been saying that awhile. You promised a guy that he'd play as a Freshman and didnt live up to it, then your reputation would take a hit and future recruits wouldnt play for you. Or promise a guy you'd get him to the NBA, win championships, things like that is what makes a great coach and recruiter.

Recruiting pitches: You'll be there for his entire collegic career; starting right away; help the player improve (15 pts) over his career; championships; get drafted; prestige of program; location; become all conference player; become an all-american by certain year; average so many pts, rbs, ast... etc; team wins; conference championships; become an university icon

Become a University Icon by finishing in the top 5 of any major statistical category and have the option of having the player's number retired and hung from the rafters (with them ACTUALLY showing the jersey w/name and number); this gives users more motivation to stay with a program.

I hope 2K is listening cuz the gamers that got tired of EA's same ole same decided to look for something new and found them. If they listen to what the gamers want, they'll keep them and they wont go back to EA if they ever get their act right!

Suellaboy22
August 10th, 2007, 07:36 PM
in real life 3 star recruits go to power conference teams... 5 star guys go to duke, unc, texas, arizona, ucla.... blah blah blah a mix of the lower 5 and upper 4 star guys go to schools like florida,syracuse, uconn, washington, stanford, 3 star kids like a few of my high school teammates end up at UVA, Iowa State, BC, Purdue... blah blah blah... 2 star guys that work their *** off once they get to college are what makes the mid-majors good such as winthrop, holy cross, gonzaga... now in the video game world, that should translate to 2 star guys having high potential instead of every 2 star guy having such a low potential rating