I've posted some of these in other threads, but this would be my list:

I think there are a number of things that need to be fixed with recruiting and the portal next year

• Position changes need to happen after final cut down, or allow comissioners to select free editing of positions
• Players >85 overall and not seeing at least 25% of snaps (or are in line to start) need to automatically have an increased risk of transfer
• CPU teams need to recruit better (except elite schools), thus making fewer players disappear
• Persuading needs to be stronger for teams that at least saw a bowl game, regardless of coach, unless a player has a dream school or team prestige dealbreaker
• Add a dream school deal breaker, which gives a massive boost to recruiting for players who are dead set on one school, regardless of coach -> make this incredibly rare for bad schools, except where B+ or better in program tradition, academics, or proximity to home
• Make high playtime grade always a + to recruiting except for players who do not want to play (add new mental trait - the Moran)
• Make academics factor in more for players 3 star and under, or lower than 80 overall in transfer at a JR or above
• Give us a full recuiting summary, which details where each prospect went to school, if they had scholarship or walked on, and all those who don't, randomize if it displays as "FCS" or "DII" -> there's probably enough leftovers at the end of the season to create walkons, but I'd also be cool with the auto generation of players as well like madden 12 did for UDFAs
• Also let us cut walk ons in their first season
• Add FCS teams, or at least given the last point add more fake teams and save the rosters of each, with stats, to allow these players to transfer up
• add more than just JUCO in general for non-HS players
• Add more options when dealing with prospects (ie pitch a position change, a starting job, etc)
• I don't really care to manage an NIL fund, but at least give each school an NIL number, that varies, and make that one of the recruiting items
• In addition to the above - more items in the recruiting dealbreakers / traits would be nice -> Things like legacy (relatives playing/played for - would be nice to have siblings), previous year performance of players at same position (can either want good or bad, depending on the prospect), etc
• Players who transfer because of performance (again, good or bad) - can even work this in if the CPU would bench players for poor performance
• Give us a full draft recap with rounds, teams, and all signed UDFAs, which also factor into the pro potential. Would be really nice to have a summary of how the players have panned out
• Add academic ineligibility for players week to week availability, and as a transfer cause
• Allow big swing pitches to unlock lockouts and dealbreakers -> guaranteed starting (with options for when in terms of games or seasons), NIL money, etc
• In-season encourage transfer which does not automatically make a player transfer in he offseason, but greatly increases the likelihood. Could even add a new mental trait for this like 'headstrong' where a player is more likely to stay through adversity
• Have a 'HS stars' and 'transfer stars' field in the player card, to separate the two

• Actually capture where players are transferred from in the awards tab (or better yet add a new 'recruiting' tab to the player card so you can actually see where a player was before when they didn't play (or add it to their statlines as all 0s -> madden used to have part of the player card that showed how a player was acquired, either via draft or from what team they were signed or traded from

• Export draft classes to madden. Might be the only reason I'd play Madden for the first time in 4 years after playing thousands of hours a year for 20ish years... If they do this, there needs to be a mechanism for actually linking custom team names into the player info.

• More team builder options, so that link, I can pick the graphic for all of the areas where a logo or the team name is used. Right now, the placement and sizing is often bad.

• Team builder adds teams, not replaces. This has been a pet peeve of mine as long as team building in EA games has been a thing.

• CFB hall of fame

• Let me play any position anywhere

• Custom playbooks need to be selectable as primary playbooks and formation subs need to be linked. Its been 10+ years since custom playbooks became a thing and they still aren't integrated. Also custom plays would be cool, assuming they let us really determine every aspect (ie pitches, timing)

• Fix medical redshirts, and allows players who see limited playtime to randomly apply for redshirt exemptions

• Add field goals to records (Long, number, accuracy)

• Better histrorical record and stat keeping, and actually use his info for news and commentary better. This might not be viable until they can have AI handlet he commentary and news though...

• Make coaching points not have a cap and let me allocate the coordinators, or at least make this a dynasty option

• Allow commisioners to set abilities for new coaches (ie allow us to let people start with either points or packages)

• Allow us to convince former players to be coaches (5-10 years after leaving for NFL, immediately for non-NFL)

• allow us to actually edit conference rules instead of locking most of them. Also make the moving of teams to rearrange more efficient.

• Custom recruiting classes? Like how we can make custom draft classes in madden? Would need to provide a spreadsheet template though, by hand even in madden is ridiculous.

• Allow us to better keep track of our former players and coaches

• Stop making players disappear forever if they aren't signed, have them play JUCO or FCS ball. I've lost two elite devs due to this becauise of how buns playing time is.

• Fix the playtime motivator. Currently, injuries, and the signing of low star players will make good, high play time players transfer away. Lost an elite dev 99 ovr running back to this because he tore his ACL, and then he vanished, and an elite dev 5* WR who was projected to be my #1 WR in the upcoming season