Put the diffculty on freshmen, and recruting tip, you have 35 prospects, dont go for all 35 take 10 and spend all your hours on those prospects, offer scholarships before anyone else. I will offer scholarships to all 35 since it is only 5, the rest of the recruiting hours i use for 10 to 15 prospects i will recruit them really hard. Schedule campus visit asap, dont wait, the longer you wait more time for a school to come in and get the prospect.
You have a recruiting board that is just that a board of prospects, also you wanna get prospects that interest is very high in your school.
Go to dynasty settings and difficulty is at the top change to freshmen.
Sounds bad once i get my school up to 4 stars and you start getting better recruits j will then up the difficulty.
Up to you i would be head coach and focus should be recruiter, not motivator or tactician.
Also when you make your coach make sure your pipeline is Louisiana.
Helpful tip on your prospect list, at the top move the cursor to the side and you can sort so you can sort it by rank, stars, interest level on the xbox pressing x in interest will sort it the list from most to least interest and press again on it it will sort least to most.
Game guess tries to be realistic, a school with 2 stars is not signing a 5 atar athlete, you can try but you probably wasting your recruiting hours.
Just some helpful tips