I’ll answer more questions in the comments as well. I can’t leave y’all stranded in recruiting

Who else constantly backs out of the recruiting board?

10mins in and I’m seeing I trashed my first class already lol

I've found the best way to find overlooked recruits in the middle of the season is to just look at the far right column of the prospect list and pick guys that don't have any scholarship offers, where it says N(0)

One thing this game NEEDS is a thing where it shows if you scouted someone or not on prospect list. I hate when I’m going through the list and re-add someone I already scouted and they sucked

As someone who lost a 4 star TE at the LAST second I can confirm the visits need to be early. I had mine late. Arizona had it early and they passed me at the last second to steal the recruit.

What I’ve found to work best (I’ve done 2 recruiting classes) load up on 10-12 guys you really want and go all in and get them committed asap. Then as players commit add other guys that still have open recruitment and no offers as you get guys committed. Then use the portal to get whatever else you need at the end or you can’t hit the high school guys heavy instead at that time. Signed a top 40 class with Troy my 1st season and top 25 my 2nd season. I did have recruiter archetype

Scout your 3 stars in the preseason, find the gems, and remove the rest, get 8-10 gems on the board and send the house. Once you have their deal breakers, hard sell, dm them, bring them on a visit. Some will commit early, find another gem, or focus on needs. Fill the gaps in your roster during the following off season and from the portal, I’ve got Georgia Southern in the playoffs, competing. The BIG12 by focusing on gems that can wait a year or two to develop. A trick with the big time recruits is to focus solely on pipeline, cast a wide net in the first off season, choose one or two who aren’t highly recruited, then go to town

My biggest gripe with recruiting is I wish we had the old search for recruits system back it was much easier to see what needs and how many you needed to fill your roster properly.

I started a dynasty with a 2 star prestige team as a recruiting coach. I found it important to only target around a dozen players at a time for the positions I need most for my play style. I didn’t do much scouting at first, but found that later on when bigger name schools put their name in the hat that there was something more to these players. I also tailored my schedule so that I could get some exposure by beating some higher ranked teams. I beat a Top 25 team by 3 points and it helped a lot when it came time to schedule visits and to get closer to a commitment. If I saw some players leave me at the bottom or off their list although I sent the house, I’d take them off my board and find a replacement ASAP. It all worked out perfectly. Spend your coaching points on the top positions you want to secure first also, if you’re a recruiting coach. That plus having a winning season will make your Transfer Portal signings much easier. I can’t wait to see how far I can take this team

My 3 star running back recruit went from 64 overall to 78 in the span of a year. Starting recruits that are close overall to your starters are essential people.

As an Aussie who has never watched or played any previous ncaa game before, I knew nothing about recruiting or anything, this video was so helpful, such a great walkthrough, cheers mate

If you messed up your first class like me, don’t fret. I haven’t tested the strat, but I feel like year two is when recruiting really starts kicking in: Pick your rebuild school and have a solid season, do your best to pull decent recruits. Make sure you put all 4 points in the positions you want to focus so you gain more starting interest next season. Draw from the transfer portal after your success to make up for failed recruiting. I’m planning on maxing out as much of the recruiting tree as possible and relying on my coordinators for everything else

I went with tactician and come to find out both my OC and DC are as well, recruiting this first year has been tough so far but enjoyable.

I did this with Bowling Green and had BG from 77 to 84 in 2 season under Bordoux recruiting strategy. I also focused on the motivator skill tree after the first season to improve the off-season training results. Then, I focused on the recruiting skill tree to help boost during recruitment battles. Thank you, Bordeaux, for helping. I support your channel for a year and love your work.

I love the fact I don’t have to every single week add the actions they carry over the weeks makes it more enjoyable

This is fire!! Used this 2 seasons already and got Top 15 classes each time with Kennesaw State!

Wow, I did not know you could take off send the house and get hours back for the hard sell. I was having to pick and choose how and when to use them. Damn, I was making things way more harder for myself lol

Week 1/2 - Send the House Week 3 - Find 3 interest - Hard Sell Week 4 - Send visits / and use Sway if you need ideal pitch Week 5 - Make sure to DM every week on prospects who are pursed by others / send out visits / see if your sway prospects worked Week 6 - Maintain every prospect make sure hours are spent wisely / Add others on board if you don't have 35 targeted - In your pipeline Week 7 - Make sure pitches are lining up well / If no schools are going after prospects send the house on them Week 8 - If others school pursuing prospects get rid of them Week 9 - Get to the Top 5's / keep finding players as you sign Week 10 - Check prospects overview Week 11 - Not really much Week 12 - Unlock 3 interests / maintain consistency Week 13 - Guess hard pitch Week 14 - Make sure hard pitch is sent out to prospects / Get to offseason recruiting find prospects who are on "open" - offer them scholarships Off season - Whoever has a lot of influence get them to visit instantly / Send the house and or hard sell their interested Off season - Take off send the house and go for hard sell and figure out what the prospect likes Off season - Hard sell and use hours / schedule visits Off season - Take off send the house on any prospects and hard sell

You’re the goat, so happy for the channels progress. You earned it 🙏

Very helpful. I got killed in recruiting my first season as Michigan. I was just sending the house and leaving it.

Starting with a 1 star school and making them rise to greatness is the only way to play dynasty

Taught me a lot, I didn’t realize you got scholarships back if you take a recruit off your board, and I didn’t know that the recruiting actions carry over week to week!

You definitely helped me understand what the Sway function does. I thought it was just another way to pitch directly. Also you showed the importance of setting everything up on week 0 and week 1 and that you should only both scouting in week 0 and focus your points on strictly influencing a recruit. Had to learn that part after like 2 seasons.

Speaking of ways to make recruiting faster, I’d like to be able to clear all previous actions

My fav thing to do is schedule a high start school that sucks (auburn, South Carolina, etc) then put all my visits for that week for major boosts

As a Mexican that loves football but doesn’t understand much about CFB and still bought the game this is really helpful!!

HIGHLY HIGHLY appreciate this!! Nobody else speaks like this on their "recruiting tips" videos. Love the work and keep up the GREAT work! :)

You should also sway to your highest grades. Since your already have proximity to home it should be easy to sway with that one and something else or maybe 2 that you have at A or B. Then hard sell will work so much better bc you’re high grades are aligned with their interests

For everyone wondering about team builder it drops July 19th

Using Boise State. Finishing the regular season 12-0, I recruited very well. Ranked 19th in the nation on the first season.

Really cool to see USF represented. Season ticket holder for their first 11 seasons. Being from St Pete, I'll probably do a rebuild myself.

4:23 “Wow, pause” 😂

Started with Hawaii and well if you’re looking for a challenge this is it. Obviously a lot of dealbreakers due to ‘Proximity to home’, but there’s a glitch in the game that makes it that all recruits give it a F grade, even the ones from the state of Hawaii….

Not me taking notes on a sticky note at work

Instead of just keeping send the house on the Top 5 list. Do soft sells if you know one of their interests. Players with deal breakers are the easiest to find out an interest. I found that that’s the fastest to figure out the interests. And 3 soft sells or a hard sell and a soft sell is way better than just a hard sell. Sway can work on players to get two really good soft sells for 40 hours (6-12 points) vs a hard sell and a soft sell for 60 hours (8-12 points)

That UK jacket crispy

“Too deep in that defensive tackle, can’t pull out now.” Lol

just a tip if you go to the menu scroll all the way to the bottom and go to "players not fully scouted" or "player in need of scholarship" you can offer all of them alot easier and scout them alot easier because when you offer/scout a player it automatically goes to the next player

Dude preach!!! I took your method and am absolutely killing recruiting. Went from low 40’s last season to number 1

3:55 Pat Mama 😭😭

I needed this video🤣

The spray and pray approach is good for filling your roster initially, but you do wanna start uncovering and targeting gems year 2-3 so you don't end up with a dearth of stars.

Nice video! Couple things I'll add, sorting the top players by interest level. Get every player you can with you in there top 5 teams and you have a great shot at landing those recruits. Another one is after a few weeks in the season lookup top players with no scholarship offers, offer them and send the house and you're immediately the top team on their list.

46:10 all the Top Four lost their first game after their byes.

Thanks man, I didnt know yoi could remove actions and I was wondering why it said I had no hours when I had more than enough in the top right, didnt know each player also has a max, oh man.. thanks!!

George Pitts is a BEAST in my dynasty… looks like the recruiting classes are pre made not auto generated

Sir, you are doing the football lord's work, your sacrifice of sleep this past launch week to bring us the strats doesn't go unnoticed and is appreciated. Wishing you some rest after these few weeks and that ea runs you a reasonable check 🤞🏾

I just got Caleb downs from transfer and the #9 overall recruiting class😮‍💨 my first year in dynasty 😭 go gators 🐊 also got the #1 DT and SS from the portal imo the portal is easier than regular recruiting

Please rebuild Michigan state bro!!!!!!😭🙏

What has worked for me as a 1 star school. Step 1: Go to Recruit List Sort by State and interest, Scout every 4 Star that's at the top of the list i usually do about 20 4 stars 15 3 stars Step 2: give all scholarships and scout 3 stars and remove broken gems Step 3: sim the week Step 4 go back to your list send the house and DM the player 60 total points on your top 6 must have 4 star players that are in top 3 interest Step 5: Sim Week Step 6: check your list and see if you can schedule a visit. If you can, do it immediately. (the reason is to learn the prospects interests) Step 7: once visit is scheduled check and see if you have Hard Sell and make sure you have atleast 2 of the check marks unlocked (once you do it enough you know what the 3rd one is if its greyed out and you go off the block combos) Step 8 wait for your 4 stars to all accept your scholarship and by week 6 you should have roughly four 4 star players. Step 9: go back to list and any players from before that have a top 3 interest send the house and repeat the above steps. Step 10: In 2-3 years dominate. Also dont forget to Redshirt your freshman's that arent starting! Hope this helps anyone!

The top 8 stage is important . I used Marshall and I was recruiting 4 stars easily . Almost got a few 5 stars but I didn’t even start putting points on them until like week 4 . It’s important any player who has you first on the interest add them to the board first too ex ( 5 stars first 4 stars next highest int 3rd and then 3 stars and under ) if you have interested ppl they’ll possibly commit as soon as you offer a scholarship that way you can sign prospects early and focus your points on those higher recruits early

Can you rebuild Missouri sometime

Please rebuild Nevada 🙏! They suck and are a 2 star school and need to beat UNLV after losing to them twice in a row. Pretty sure this is the 5th comment asking for this 🙏

The recruiting process in Dynasty mode is very detailed and has A LOT of Easter Eggs

Thanks bordeaux. I bombed my first year and just retired. I'm rebuilding San Diego State and was able to get a ranked 28 ovr recruiting class

Is it possible to get someone when your not even in there top 10 to start?

So using hawaii would not be the move bc the game doesnt give many high star recruits from hawaii

Tried the same format with Wisconsin (Year 3 after winning a title in year 2) and got the #2 recruiting class. Obviously having a 4/5 star program, you don’t have to worry as much about deal breakers.

In the recruiting board you can sort by not fully scouted and need scholarship, and spam the A button to give scholarships and to scout faster with out exiting and going back and in forth. It’ll automatically move to the next prospect after completing each task

I was landing top 30 and top 25 recruiting classes everytime. I watched this video for 15 minutes and landed my first top 5 recruiting class landed four 5 stars!! Thank you Bordeaux

I kept on spreading myself thin each season. Didn’t know I should focus on 8 recruits at once. Thank you so much! I’m already into year 4 but hopefully this vid will turn it around!

I know you were getting dragged on Reddit about the monotone. Man this video is like a whole new you. Great video!

It's really in-depth but once you know what your doing it's not too difficult.

Out of all of the recruiting vids I’ve seen, this is probably the most efficient and most well balanced when it comes to pursuing and when to move on. Great vid thank you.

Just landed a star gem mlb with 94 speed at texas tech boy I’m hype lol

One thing overlooked was when you are adding players who are still open that you can pursue, under the "offer" on the far right you can see the number of schools pursuing them. So if you see any N(0) you know at least that week you can be the only one targeting them.

Another thing to help. Check the dealbreaker for the third checkmark. Sometimes it won’t be checked but the deal breaker will give it away and give you the correct combo

This is basically what I do already but when I started with UCONN I only had level 1 pipelines at most and 350 recruiting hours. It was a long grind but we are entering the semi-finals in the playoffs in 2031 with 2 Nattys, conference championships in the SBC, ACC, B1G, and SEC, a back to back Heisman winner RB, and championship pedigree 🔥💪🏼 this game is so good lol

The best thing I have found while rebuilding, halfway through the season, sort by offers. The players with no offers are more likely to sign with you.

You’re the goat for this video! I signed so many 4 stars at ECU my first year because of this video and I started doing what you said in like week 5 and still got a ton! Team up to a 84 over year 2! Thanks for putting in the hours sir!

I started as defensive coordinator tactician, for Louisville I struggled my first year recruiting finished the end of the season was 80 and after off season we finished 58 . Year 2 about the same was 77 at season end and 52 after off season, Year 3 was almost horrible I was 108 season end, but was able to get 56 off season. Year 4 was 80 season end and finally hit my best class after off season at 34, then I left for Tulane HC job and finished about same as when I was Louisville coordinator, we was 93 then 52 My first season as a HC finished 10-2 and a bowl win I stayed year 2 at Tulane and went undefeated conference championship and made playoffs we lost in the first play off game to Georgia in a shootout 38-35 and I packed my bags for Texas , my first recruiting class at Blue blood Texas was 25 , after 1 season at Texas and winning 9 game's I actually left for my Alma matter Louisville I'm in my first year there it's week 3 and I'm working the phone and trying to get some 4-star and 5 stars I believe that we are 87 across the board on overall too. Recruiting is good but it's tougher than the old game's I'm taking any advice I can reason I'm on here watching you

Recruiting is sort of backwards compared to ncaa 14 at least that’s what I’ve noticed in my 48 hours of gameplay. You’re going to want to aggressively go after 4 and 5 stars early, you won’t have a handful of them to scoop up in the final weeks of the season like you could in ncaa 14.

My first year with Kennesaw I had the 39th best class with 4 4 stars and 15 3 stars with a few 3 star gems

Already brought buffalos overall up 12 through 2 or 3 years of recruiting cant wait to use these tips to secure the MAC and hopefully a playoff appearance.

I followed these methods and pulled the 12th best class with Purdue. 15 four star players and 19, 3 star players. This helped a ton, thanks!

I started with Kansas as the OC and by the end of the season I was ranked 43rd in the nation in recruiting which was where Kansas finished last year so it’s pretty accurate I’d say..haven’t got to the portal yet but it won’t matter I took the HC job at ECU.

The menu merchant always coming in clutch🙏

There will always be a “perfect” pitch. Once you get 2 you can soft sell and it won’t have as negative of an impact

I am thoroughly appreciating this video. Thanks so much for sticking with the absolute basics. I haven't finished it up yet but it has already been extremely helpful. The game tells you way to little.

I'm doing a "Build the Next Boise" rebuild with UNLV. Signed 22 3 stars and 1 4 star in my first season. Just hit the pavement hogging the 3 stars from the rest of the mid majors. You'll be dominating the Mountain West/CUSA/Sun Belt in a very short time.

Wow this is helpful. You just helped me learn that you can remove recruiting actions when you don't want them on anymore. I was wondering why i NEVER had any recruiting hours left LOL

This was very helpful Bordeaux I find that finding players that have not been offered towards the end of the season is a snag

Bro saved me. Im a madden nut and never played NCAA. Now I love it but suck at recruiting and this video is perfect.

Great video, I started a dynasty with ECU and it took like 3 yrs to get to the CFB playoffs. I kept changing the recruiting every week. After watching your video I realize that was not the best thing to do. I'm going to start a new dynasty using your recommendations. Great video!

I have never played or even watch football but this game is so good that I’m learning how to play and all that, so thank you a lot!

When you have two green checks you can usually find the hard sell that matches those two and a question mark. Rarely there is a pitch that covers both green checks and another question mark. The more red X’s you have the easier it is to know what the 3rd missing check mark is

Biggest thing I’ve learned is once you get the intel after sending the house, immediately hard sell the recruit and schedule a visit.

U definitely did a great job here, but it’s def harder at a school in a worse state like UConn or UMass. There are way more Florida players

Amazing video my friend! Thank you so much for taking the time to break this down, I did my first dynasty last night (using UNR - 2 star) and my recruiting class wasn't close to this good. Keep up the great content!

You’re such a stud bro. clutch content. Can’t wait to see the Oregon State University Beavers rebuild

Think of the deal breaker as a check mark, so if you have two checks and you want to hard sell asap you can look at the deal breaker and it confirms what the last check is.

Thank you for this video!! Went from recruiting 13 recruits with Texas, to recruiting 32 3 star plus players with coastal Carolina.

So I changed my whole recruiting approach as I was struggling and losing recruits every year. I did your approach in this video and had my biggest class yet and had the number 10 class in the nation with Stanford. Thanks mannn!!

I’ve watched a lot of videos on this topic and yours is one of the best!!!! Thanks for the help and please keep feeding us content like this with updates if you learn more

This 100% works. i didnt know how great it would be but i was at 31. Then in the transfer portal i signe 2 4 stars and multiple 3 stars. Seriously dont put too much into anybody but really good 3-5 stars until somewhere around mid season. And if theyre looking toward the bigger schools like he said drop them. I took 1 star FAU to 3 stars in one season. Scout offer and send the house are your friends and monitor every week. 10/10 Bordeaux

man after the way my recruiting started i’m GLAD you dropped this video thank you 🐐

You just taught me something huge, I was sending the house on the main recruits I wanted and just leaving that there. I didn’t know you can just take it off and then pitch them to seal the recruit. Lost a lot of recruits last minute because I was full on hours. Thank you

Something I noticed is if you’re a school in a big state like Florida then you’re more likely to get more 4 stars because of how many their are in the big states. If you’re in a really small state like Maryland you have a much higher chance of maybe getting 2 or 3 5 stars because there isn’t much competition so if you find a small state player who cares about proximity to home then you have a good chance to get him.

After watching all these videos I started a new save as Alabama just to try and dominate for a decade. First year I only got the 4th best class, but not bad. Second year though!!!! 10 5-star recruits. The next highest team has two.