For the long term run, I would recommend ret shirting every freshman, even if you could need them immediately. It might sucks one season, but will help you in the long run in a few years.
I'll definitely recommend Facilities to level first, as it helps you the most to develop your new players. Your As and Bs talent players can only develop so much, with bad training facilities. Also you have to spend all money.
Training facilities OP getting 30% scouting knowledge after 1 training camp is massive in preseason. Academics will be my second favorite. I`m not sure if its 100% chance of getting new booster reaching 2* prestige. I`ve see no point of leaving any money to coaches, so never did it :D You have 1 "free" negotiation with boosters, these goals look HARD. 70 A Freshman looks nice! The only problem is he will wanna be a star. But mb its a chance to get easy integrity from fullfilling a promise when he demands his playing time :D I started new save and was able to sign 72 B- TE who was "closing to sign" very early in season but had 0 offers and was only "targeted" by few programms, it took only 1 week and i was mb -2k from his "favorite" programm. Not sure if its very lucky or its supposed to be this way. On the opposite spectrum i lost some prospects who had 0 offers on the last week of recruitment period. So having a backup plan is a must.
I believe a redshirt year is a year where a player doesn't play (or just a limited amount) and his eligibility stays. So a freshman that got redshirted is still a freshman the following year, instead of a sophomore. I hope this is explained good enough.
Sascha has it right. I just finished recording the next episode and I start going into detail in some areas, one of them was an explanation of what a redshirt is.
Bought the game and inserted my alma mater into it (it's a D2 school), but have only done the 1st season spring/summer stuff. Does the NIL budget each year encompass the entire roster or just who you are recruiting that season? I've started making scholarship offers and if the NIL budget is for the entire roster, I don't want to blow it on all one recruiting class.
It's both in a way. Technically you start fresh each season, but your NIL is budgeted. From the school income for the year you have to manually refill the NIL allotment. Your max depends on prestige, mine is 3 mil, but if I spend 2 mil of it, it'll cost me 2 mil out of my yearly budget to refill it. As I haven't gotten my second season to that point I couldn't tell you if the cost of each player's NIL is compounded year on year when in the budget screen or just a one time fee but the 3 mil was available again after refilling it for season 2.
NIL does not carry over... meaning if you sign a NIL deal to recruit now, it applies to this years budget, and next season you will get another chance to refill your NIL budget and the player you previously signed keeps his NIL money you gave him last season. NIL money used to sign recruits is prorated by season and a portion is returned if they leave early. (it's one lump sum paid out when you sign the NIL deal, not annually re-applied)
For the long term run, I would recommend ret shirting every freshman, even if you could need them immediately. It might sucks one season, but will help you in the long run in a few years.
I'll definitely recommend Facilities to level first, as it helps you the most to develop your new players. Your As and Bs talent players can only develop so much, with bad training facilities.
Also you have to spend all money.
God I love this game and series
I'll go with facilities first, preseason training is yearly. Boosters need the donors to retire for the chance of the booster level to be better
Btw also love the gane its so bredt with the recruiment. Also a good team one year Can be bad if all the good players graduate.
Training facilities OP getting 30% scouting knowledge after 1 training camp is massive in preseason. Academics will be my second favorite. I`m not sure if its 100% chance of getting new booster reaching 2* prestige.
I`ve see no point of leaving any money to coaches, so never did it :D
You have 1 "free" negotiation with boosters, these goals look HARD.
70 A Freshman looks nice! The only problem is he will wanna be a star. But mb its a chance to get easy integrity from fullfilling a promise when he demands his playing time :D
I started new save and was able to sign 72 B- TE who was "closing to sign" very early in season but had 0 offers and was only "targeted" by few programms, it took only 1 week and i was mb -2k from his "favorite" programm. Not sure if its very lucky or its supposed to be this way. On the opposite spectrum i lost some prospects who had 0 offers on the last week of recruitment period. So having a backup plan is a must.
Im not used to the college system. What do the redshirt mean?
I believe a redshirt year is a year where a player doesn't play (or just a limited amount) and his eligibility stays. So a freshman that got redshirted is still a freshman the following year, instead of a sophomore.
I hope this is explained good enough.
Sascha has it right. I just finished recording the next episode and I start going into detail in some areas, one of them was an explanation of what a redshirt is.
Thanassis for the answers
Bought the game and inserted my alma mater into it (it's a D2 school), but have only done the 1st season spring/summer stuff. Does the NIL budget each year encompass the entire roster or just who you are recruiting that season? I've started making scholarship offers and if the NIL budget is for the entire roster, I don't want to blow it on all one recruiting class.
It's both in a way. Technically you start fresh each season, but your NIL is budgeted. From the school income for the year you have to manually refill the NIL allotment. Your max depends on prestige, mine is 3 mil, but if I spend 2 mil of it, it'll cost me 2 mil out of my yearly budget to refill it. As I haven't gotten my second season to that point I couldn't tell you if the cost of each player's NIL is compounded year on year when in the budget screen or just a one time fee but the 3 mil was available again after refilling it for season 2.
NIL does not carry over... meaning if you sign a NIL deal to recruit now, it applies to this years budget, and next season you will get another chance to refill your NIL budget and the player you previously signed keeps his NIL money you gave him last season. NIL money used to sign recruits is prorated by season and a portion is returned if they leave early. (it's one lump sum paid out when you sign the NIL deal, not annually re-applied)