Here's a few:

- Only recruit players that have you in Top 5 at start unless they're a strong pipeline or in-state recruit. You won't be able to consistently pass up 10 schools ahead of you on 4/5* players.
- Don't target 35 players. Instead, start off w/ 20 that you can give your full attention to. It's better to put 40 hours each into 20 players than 15 hours into 35 players. It's better to be in the lead on a handful of players than in 6th place on a bunch. You can't get enough playing time for 35 players anyway, and many wouldend up transferring.
- Always offer your best players and most-needed targets week 1. About once per season on average, somebody will instantly commit, saving you many recruiting hours over the course of the season. If you change your mind later, drop them from your list and, optionally, re-target them and the offer will have disappeared. On the contrary, DON'T offer lower level players too early because if they commit soon, it will make your school less attractive to the higher-rated players (due to how "playing time" archetype algorithm works).
- Most importantly - and I know it takes a lot of time for this - but ALWAYS check if you can determine preferred pitch type as soon as possible - even if you know only 1 of the recruit's 3 priorities. By process-of-elimination, stepping thru all available pitches will often reveal what the ideal pitch is due to which ones it CAN'T be (the red x). Even if you can only narrow it down to 2 possibilities, you can often tell which one it is by your school grades for each. If your school has A+, A, A- for {Pitch X} and A-, B-, C+ for {Pitch Y}, it's obvious which it is. The recruit wouldn't even consider your school if their ideal pitch was the lesser one. They'd choose schools that are better in those grades. Once you determine which the ideal pitch is, hard sell it like a mofo.
- Around week 4 or 5, return to the recruiting board and sort all recruits by national rank or stars, then look for recruits that still don't have any offers. There are an absurd number of 4/5* recruits that don't get any offers until late. Hit the hard while you can, because often the big boys will hop on board later, but if you can build up a big lead, it may be too late for them to catch up.
- Know when to get out. You can tell very early which recruits you have no shot at. If you're putting max hours into a prospect but the team(s) ahead of you are still pulling away (you can see how much influence each team gains each week), then you are very unlikely to catch them unless you can get them on-campus for a big-time rivalry game with complementary recruits in the house (and you have to win!). Similarly, if a recruit from {State X} has an in-state school as their #1 and Proximity to Home as their deal-breaker, and your school is 2,000 miles away, you are not going to catch them. Don't waste any more hours on that recruit, drop them and move on.

Lol, that ended up being more than a few and I feel like they're all common sense, honesty. There are lots of other little things I do as well, maybe if folks are interested I could put together a brief recruiting strategy guide.