I’ve won 3 National Championships (in a row) and currently have a 47 game winning streak; all of this on Heisman level. My top 5 tips are as follows for starting out with a terrible school.

1. Schedule your non-conference games with highly ranked, prestigous schools. It will do three things for you: get your school exposure, get you transfer requests if you play well, and it will give you a chance to move up in the rankings (good players have a chance at winning ANY game).

2. DEPTH CHART: Before you play any games go to your depth chart and make sure your kick/punt returners are the fastest players on your team, put your punter as your field goal kicker if he is better overall, and make sure both your offensive and defensive lines are balanced-meaning that if you have 3 Tackles rated 85 and a center rated 65, move one of the tackles to center.

3. RECRUITING: Fill your recruiting board up to 30 at the most. This is enough time to offer a scholarship to everyone. Offer a scholarship to all players the first week their added to your board. Once you have a couple interested prospects drop the rest of the other prospects at that position until your board is down to no more than 20 players. Re-order your board according to interest (RB I believe.) Quick call the your top ten on the board for 40 mins. each, 20 mins. for the rest. If you have below twenty then spend an hour for each player you are below twenty on. For example if you have 18 players, spend 1 hr. each on your top two prospects (20-18=2). Schedule visits for teams you can beat the shit out of. Never let a position go unfilled; a two-star is a hundred times better than a no-star walk on (the difference is a 60 compared to a 40 or so overall.

4. If you get invited into another conference ACCEPT!

5. LAST BUT NOT LEAST: If you ever need a Fourth down conversion or 2 point conversion call a play action pass where the FullBack runs a route into the flat. He will almost never have a man covering him and if it’s zone they won’t tackle him before he gets the first down 90% of the time.

in the preseason (no matter what prestige your school is) go for a few maybe more 5 4 and 3 star prospects that dont have you on their list. and offer them a scholarship. after about a few weeks or so if your not on there list or other teams are high than you in their lists then get rid of them and go and find more players that dont have any offers yet. (go to propect search and go to commitment status and pick 10 remaining schools or 8…no offers no nothin.

1. Target all the players you want, no more than 20. Filling your list up with more or even 35 is more work than you need and you’ll never be able to split the time evenly so that you hit all the recruits.. so don’t bother.
2. Quickcall each of them for 20-40 minutes for the first 3-5 weeks so you can find all their pitches, rather than manually trying to do it and wasting a ton of minutes.
3. Schedule your visits midseason and no later than week 12, unless you have to. I like to do this because by mid season I have nearly filled up the interest meter for the players I wanted.. the visits should always be used finalize the recruitment.
4. Manually play the games where multiple recruits are visiting and make sure to really blow out your opponent. Simulating these games is usually wishwashy and even if you simulate a win, nothing less than a solid A rating from recruits will do. I got 5 5-Stars during week 8 by blowing out my opponent.
5. After the visits, your targets should either have you as first or be a soft verbal.. continuously bombard your targets by selling only very high and MOST picthes..by now it should be smooth sailing.. granted no other power houses schedule visits late in the season. For me, even when teams did.. it really didn’t matter because I was already so far ahead of them on any given player’s interest meter, it didn’t even affect me getting his signature.

Note: All of the above are ignoring the obvious. You need to win all your games handily and you need to call your recruits every week and hit all the very-high and most pitches week in and week out. Quick call should only be used in the early season to find out what’s important to them and only in late season when you add recruits. Don’t get lazy and quick call guys you’ve been after since the start, cause this is how you lose recruits. I know I used a powerhouse, but it’s only because I had no interest in using a team like BYU or some other mid major so I’m doubt what I’ve typed completely applies to them. Doing all this, I was able to pull 11 5-stars, 5 4-stars, and 4 3-stars (only to fill needs) DURING the season.