Should You Hold Your Scholarships Or Not?
For the other part of this equation, you might be wondering whether this random chance is worth withholding your scholarship until you check off more of the boxes that improve your chances of securing an instant commitment.v
For the other part of this equation, you might be wondering whether this random chance is worth withholding your scholarship until you check off more of the boxes that improve your chances of securing an instant commitment.v
To answer this question, Max Plays CFB is a great source for some math behind some of CFB 25 Coins these questions since EA doesn't give us a guide on a lot of this stuff (a good or bad thing depending on what aspects of the game we're talking about, but in this case, I think it's good). I'll embed the video below.
This is a quick guide though so if you don't want to watch all 7+ minutes of that video, understand that holding your scholarships is not worth it, according to Max. I agree with him 99 out of 100 times. There is a case to be made for the truly elite schools that are only looking to secure specific top-end players holding scholarships for the perfect shot at an instant commit, but even those cases are silly to consider for the most part because you're already one of the best schools. Chances are if you just follow "basic" recruiting principles you'll win most recruiting battles, and you need to be number one for a prospect in the first place to secure any recruit with this method.
Plus, consider that in Week 1 all you can do is scout and offer scholarships. Even if you want to go crazy scouting players, you need to understand that those five points for a scholarship are the best value in all of recruiting. Plus, there is no other way to increase the interest level for a player in Week 1. So even though you might be wary of giving up one of your 35 potential scholarships in Week 1, that's not a big enough reason to withhold the scholarship.
Beyond that, think of a scholarship like chip damage in something like a fighting game. One little hit is not a big deal, but those hits add up over time. The same is true with a scholarship offer. Even if those five points are all you ever spend on a player, you can still get some of those players because that scholarship increases a player's interest week by week.
For Jalen Folkerts here, you can see the only thing I have offered him is a scholarship (and it was a couple of weeks ago), and yet if you see the darker area on Penn State's status bar, he has still gone up a bit since last week. This is the power of a scholarship, and this is why you should offer 35 of them during Week 1 (so save at least 175 of your hours in Week 1 - you can always offer more than 35 as well if you want to buy College Football 25 Coins hunt some instant commits but otherwise were not interested in that player).
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