Immediately locked out in transfer portal
Has anyone else noticed that they are being locked out of almost every recruit. I have my transfer cap at 30 per team so there are usually around 2,800 in my portal however I could only bring in about 7 or 8 transfers last year because 90% were already in there top 5. That could make sense for the top top players in the portal however when it gets to the 3 stars and even some 4 stars, it gets ridiculous. Even 1 and 2 stars are in there top 5. At the beginning, the only thing that should stop you from recruiting any transfer should be a deal breaker. Let me at least get a chance in week one to bring some people in. I have seen so many 4 star transfer who because they were already in their top 5, no team offered them and no team in their top 5 offered them either meaning that once the transfer portal closed, these guys were deleted from the game. Some of these guys are big names in college football.
my proposed solution is that if a player doesn’t have an offer, then their recruiting should be open. Now let’s say that a team has offered them and they had recruited them into a top 5 but then decided to remove their scholarship. My solution would make it so their recruitment would open up again so that they will would have a chance to go somewhere or another team who Wasn’t in their top 5 would have a chance on them. This would apply to high school recruits as well. Last year in CFB 25 I saw a 5 star who was removed from a team’s recruitment and they had locked everyone else out and ended not going anywhere.
Another thing I would like to see fixed is that for every player who transfers out, you should be granted an extra scholarship spot when recruiting. Last year I had 51 players either graduate or transfer out, and because of the limit of 35 scholarships per year, I could only bring in 32 meaning I was stuck at 66 players in my roster. Even if I recruiting 35 players I would still not have anywhere near the amount of players I want and should be on a team. Now 32 recruits and transfers does feel like a lot so I should at least be able to choose from a list of walk ons to fill up my roster spots.
Let me know what you think.
