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#18806	06/29/2022 9:39:13 am	Apr 4th, 2026
cwb Joined: 02/08/2019 Posts: 67 Prairie View A&M Panthers III.1	Ok, so yearssss ago... when I was but a mere Beta tester... I had pitched the idea of recruiting pipelines. I think many people enjoyed the idea back then, but we never got around to implementing. So, I'm back... with a more refined vision. The idea is simple: You have the ability to establish a recruiting pipeline after you land a certain number of recruits from an area. The refined idea: Pipelines are tied to COACHES, not the teams or owners themselves. How many pipelines can a coach have? Coaches can have up to 3 pipelines at a time. Pipelines do not go away, unless they are replaced by another. How do you establish a pipeline? Pipelines are established after you recruit at least 3 players from a given state, province, or country. What is the benefit of a pipeline? A pipeline makes it so that you can now recruit players from that state, province, or country as if it were in-state. Pipelines would not trump something like the Division you play in. Do pipelines count for assistant coaches? Assistant coaches can develop pipelines, but only the head coach will give you a bonus. Assistant coach pipelines are deactivated until they are promoted to a head coach position (but you can still see them on their coach's profile). What happens if you hire a coach with the same pipeline as the state that you are in? That pipeline deactivates and the next one on the pipeline list is moved into activated position. In turn, there is a good chance that, once you fire your head coach and go to view him in the coaching pool, his #1 pipeline is actually your state! So pipelines can change? Yes! Pipelines go off of two things: (1) the number of recruits you have signed from a certain state, province, or country, and (2) the recency of those signings. So although you may have signed 3 recruits from Texas, California, and New York, if you signed 3 recruits from Florida in this recruiting cycle, then Florida would bump one of those states from your coach's top 3. I feel like this would add some fun strategy to the game. Do you try to establish a pipeline in a big state with more competition, or do you try to dominate a smaller country where few others thrive? What are your thoughts?

#18807	06/29/2022 9:52:52 am	Apr 4th, 2026
Divac Joined: 01/16/2020 Posts: 323 Gettysburg Bullets V.10

#18808	06/29/2022 11:49:37 am	Apr 4th, 2026
James Lebron Joined: 08/17/2021 Posts: 32 Florida Southern Moccasins V.5	could you please reduce that big picture a bit. it fills my entire screen and distorts this forum thread. its off topic anyway so at the least have some respect for the person that started this thread by refraining from posting such material. i've never seen anybody post stuff like that on your many, many posts on this forum. thank you.

#18810	06/29/2022 12:17:00 pm	Apr 4th, 2026
TavesSoul Joined: 06/25/2020 Posts: 149 Nazareth Golden Flyers IV.8	Love the idea, I think my only thought is would it be better for pipeline states to be treated In-Region instead of In-State? So there's an advantage, but not the same advantage as your primary State. Outside of that, +1 from me.

#18826	07/02/2022 12:50:14 pm	Oct 8th, 2026
TPS2.0 Joined: 02/05/2018 Posts: 166 Tennessee Volunteers III.4	+1 A good example that could be looked at is some of the NCAA football games.

#18827	07/02/2022 5:46:35 pm	Oct 8th, 2026
El jefe Joined: 07/06/2018 Posts: 693 Temple Owls I.1	Good idea, but don't think the bonus should be equivalent to either in-state or in-region. Maybe somewhere slightly below the in-region bonus

#18878	07/11/2022 6:31:00 pm	Nov 4th, 2026
cwb Joined: 02/08/2019 Posts: 67 Prairie View A&M Panthers III.1	Thanks for the feedback/support — I agree that in-region bonuses would be better than in-state (don’t want to make them too strong).

#18936	07/19/2022 9:25:47 pm	Dec 3rd, 2026
admin Joined: 01/24/2017 Posts: 2483 Hardwood Administrator	What are some examples of real world coaches that have pipelines (in college basketball)? Are they really on par with the local teams as far as recruiting? Steve

#18938	07/20/2022 4:02:45 am	Dec 3rd, 2026
TavesSoul Joined: 06/25/2020 Posts: 149 Nazareth Golden Flyers IV.8	Not sure if it's actually Coach Calipari or one of his assistants, but Kentucky has essentially had a pipeline here in Canada for a decade (Trey Lyles, Jamal Murray, Mychal Mulder and even Shaedon Sharpe before he made a business decision not to play to keep his draft stock). Almost got Wiggins too during that window. Kentucky is always in on the elite talent up here. Then Maine recently for lower-tier talent. Although you could kind of argue that's been more regional proximity, as most of those recruits have been from Ontario/Quebec. Updated Wednesday, July 20 2022 @ 4:06:16 am PDT

#18939	07/20/2022 6:14:27 am	Dec 3rd, 2026
zachyarbrough1 Joined: 04/02/2021 Posts: 8 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs IV.7	I’m a Texas Tech fan myself, and last season we had an assistant from the west coast and that opened us up to California, Oregon, and Washington to get our name in on some big recruits from that area

#18940	07/20/2022 8:19:53 am	Dec 3rd, 2026
sparky Joined: 03/25/2021 Posts: 31 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Trailblazers IV.6	I think for Pipelines to work, we'd want to have a select group of kids from each region play for an AAU team. It could be like you'd have to spend recruit points buttering up an AAU coach, who'd then give you a better chance at recruiting players on his team.

#18941	07/20/2022 9:42:20 am	Dec 3rd, 2026
lmartins6746 Joined: 02/26/2020 Posts: 252 North Greenville Crusaders IV.3	I would think on par with in region schools is a bit much. I think somewhere between in-region and out of region. For regions where there are no in-region schools maybe it could be on par with in-region.

#18942	07/20/2022 7:57:18 pm	Dec 5th, 2026
mavstar21 Joined: 08/14/2019 Posts: 89 Wisconsin-Superior Yellow Jackets V.16	St Mary's has a pretty solid history of recruiting out of Australia for the past 20 years.

#18943	07/21/2022 7:40:48 am	Dec 5th, 2026
therelabeef Joined: 04/03/2022 Posts: 204 John Carroll University Blue Streaks VI.31	Pipelines would be a great idea for hardwood. Like the realisticness to real college basketball. (If you haven’t learned DePaul is high on realism

#18949	07/21/2022 9:08:56 pm	Dec 10th, 2026
celtic4warrior Joined: 07/02/2018 Posts: 174 California Lutheran Kingsmen V.1	+1 on a pipeline. celtic4warrior

#18975	07/25/2022 1:23:22 pm	Dec 24th, 2026
cwb Joined: 02/08/2019 Posts: 67 Prairie View A&M Panthers III.1	There are actually a ton of examples in real life. In fact, I remember back when I was in college that Colorado had a tie to San Antonio area and landed multiple basketball recruits from there (I think they still have Texas ties). College coaches commonly build relationships with high school coaches who tap them when a good player comes through their ranks. Hawaii practically only recruits California and the Pacific Islands, with occasion kids from Texas. Air Force largely recruits from Texas. Kentucky has a coach exclusively focused on Texas, trying to build a bigger pipeline there. And even more recently, 'Nova's coach Jay Wright had a huge pull from the DMV area. However, his retirement is likely to lead to a huge DMV recruit decline for 'Nova going forward. Here are a few articles on college pipelines (including data/evidence on some of the ones I mentioned above): https://www.mwcconnection.com/2022/2/23/22938964/peak-perspective-recruiting-pipelines-in-the-2022-class https://www.on3.com/college/kentucky-wildcats/news/kt-turner-discusses-recruiting-pipeline-in-texas/ https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/could-jay-wrights-retirement-help-dmv-schools-take-back-recruiting-pipeline Also, I will say I have seen pipeline successfully implemented in other sports games. Draft Day Sports used to have a popular pipeline mechanic. Also, the NCAA Football and Basketball games had pipelines for coaches.

#18980	07/26/2022 5:16:20 am	Dec 24th, 2026
therelabeef Joined: 04/03/2022 Posts: 204 John Carroll University Blue Streaks VI.31	Sounds convincing…I would like to have some coaches build some pipelines in the futre