Recruiting in NCAA 13 - What would you like to see?

[JeffHCross]

anyone have any ideas on how to get your coordinators involved into recruting?

Tons of ideas, but it all depends on what direction they'd want to go. There's the obvious (use CH2k*'s method of having assistants sometime do the recruiting for you, and the assistant's recruiting rating dictates how successful the visit/recruiting/whatever goes) and the simple (head coach's recruiting rating + assistant coach's recruiting rating are combined to do a modifier on the recruiting's call/visit point scale). And practically everything in-between.

The meat of the question, in my eyes, is how many other mechanics the team would be willing to upgrade/change/modify in order to facilitate an influence by assistant coaches. Your suggestion of scouting is certainly up there, but that would be a fundamental change to how players are currently recruiting. Not that I disagree with it, just saying that it has the potential to impact a lot of areas. I mean, just the introduction of ranges and the potential for a recruit's rating to be "wrong" would have drastic effects on recruiting.

Personally, I think, long term, that scouting will return and your coach (maybe not the assistant, but at least the head coach) will have an influence on the success of both scouting and the actual recruitment. Short-term ... harder to guess.

So like you pump x amount of time into a player and you get to see his hidden potential rating.

I don't want to ever be able to see the player's potential. At least not the real potential. However, I would love to see something that may or may not be accurate -- I call it "Upside". So you get a player's Upside, and say it's an A. I have a bunch of caveats and factors going through my head whenever I think about this, but short summary is that the "A" might be an "A+", or a "B+", maybe even a "B". Or maybe, depending on the factors involved, really a "C". There'd be ways to know how true it is, but, at least in my head, you'd never know the potential with absolute certainty. So there'd be a huge amount of risk/reward there.