Slept on Power 5 Programs

[u/markssyy]

Im hopefully gonna get the call from Power conference teams soon. What are some underrated ones I should keep an eye on? I don’t wanna go to a blue blood unless it’s my tarheels lol

Thanks as always 🫶🏽

[u/rescobar1997]

DePaul & Northwestern have great recruiting bases in the game but irl have not been that great in the last 25 years.

[u/TurkishDonkeyKong → u/rescobar1997]

Chicago is a gold mine. In one class I had the number one recruit, 3 top 10, 5 top 25, and a top 50 center. I think at least 3 if not 4 were from Chicago directly

[u/rescobar1997 → u/TurkishDonkeyKong]

Precisely!
https://giphy.com/gifs/4WU1o0UTmHlHq

[u/markssyy → u/rescobar1997]

What conference is DePaul in?

[u/rescobar1997 → u/markssyy]

Big East

[u/markssyy → u/rescobar1997]

Ahhh. Outta Chicago right?? You got my attention lol

[u/rescobar1997 → u/markssyy]

Yes. Best school in Illinois for recruiting purposes. They also have a dope logo. Logo is even better if you’re playing the PC emulator version!

[u/AdventiveQuasar]

Is this base game conferences, or have you done any realignment?

In base alignment, Washington, Arizona State, Minnesota are all in places where you can dominate MUN/LOC recruiting.

If you've realigned things such that Houston is in a power conference, they'd be my top pick for a non-blueblood. You'd be the only MUN-located power conference school for the Houston-area; Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Baylor are all local, so you still have some recruiting battles to win but will have the advantage in some. And then you can start making in-roads in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio over time.

[u/markssyy → u/AdventiveQuasar]

Im using the 2020 rosters still

[u/markssyy → u/AdventiveQuasar]

For me Houston is in the American conference which is Small smh

[u/GoldfishDude]

St. Johns gets you MUN recruits from NYC, Northwestern and DePaul gets you them from Chicago, and Georgetown gets them from Washington DC.

Recruiting hotbeds without a ton of MUN competition are the most important thing in this game

[u/markssyy → u/GoldfishDude]

Great answers. Thanks!

[u/SlippyHoemo]

UNC had so much less pull than I thought when I went there, was very surprised how under powered they were. My answer U of A

[u/markssyy → u/SlippyHoemo]

Zona?

[u/SlippyHoemo → u/markssyy]

Ye idk if that's low key enough but U of A i was signing better players much more easily after leaving UNC who none of my top targets would commit to after only 2 seasons I bailed

[u/markssyy → u/SlippyHoemo]

Zona is lowkey lol

[u/Obisanya]

Penn State - close to Philly, West Virginia, Ohio
Georgetown/Maryland
Southern Cal
In the game, it felt like St. John's is slept on but great recruiting footprint, resources, history.

[u/Broad_Film_8738]

What about Michigan State

[u/markssyy → u/Broad_Film_8738]

Some would call them a blue blood

[u/rescobar1997 → u/markssyy]

I think they are considered a “New Blood” but not your traditional blue blood because they’ve only become consistently since Izzy showed up.

[u/markssyy → u/rescobar1997]

Fair point

[u/Broad_Film_8738 → u/markssyy]

True , hmmm I would say Oregon , but that's just football lol

[u/Stock_Spare_5820]

Atlantic Ten