BEST COACH BUILD IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL 25

THE BEST COACH BUILD IN CFB25:

In this video I'm going to go over COACHING ABILITIES in College Football 25 one branch at a time and review which ones are definitely worth your while and which are a complete waste of your time.

As always, if you have BETTER best-practices, please let me know so I can update our community and make sure we are getting things right!

02:03 SETUP + WHERE TO FIND YOUR COACH ABILITIES AND GOALS

04:41 TALENT DEVELOPER:
- 15 unlock + 25 in Motivator (eh) + Tier 1 on ALL except K/P for 56 = 96 coach points

06:51 MOTIVATOR:
- Not spending here for it's own sake, BUT it IS part of unlocking Talent Developer and Architect. So you'll wind up with 25 points here, but they have already been accounted for above and I feel like they can be any ones you want, so I'm not counting any specific motivator targets.

09:12 ARCHITECT:
- 15 unlock + 56 for Tier 1 on all except K/P = 71 coach points. You will have already spent the 25 anywhere you want in Motivator to unlock this branch so I am not counting that here (accounted for under Talent Developer).

11:29 TACTICIAN:
- This can be dealer's choice on the details, but it'll take 10 points to unlock + your choice of 54 or so points. We will call it = 64 coach points but you can spend a little more or a little less, especially if you want some extra to allocate for Program Builder later on.

16:00 STRATEGIST:
- Not spending points here at all. Visits are bugged, throw this branch in the garbage.

17:27 RECRUITER:
- Max out everything in the BASE trees EXCEPT K/P. 20 x 7 trees = 140 + Tier 1 all elite abilities (except K/P) for 56 = 196 coach points
SO: 96 + "0" + 71 + 64 + 0 + 196
= 427 Coach Points from Base Trees

20:05 PROGRAM BUILDER (BONUS):
- Unlock for 20, then 3x relationship builder for 36 total = 56 coach points
= 427 Base + 56 PB = 483ish, depending what you did in Tactician and where you fell in that range

24:10 CEO (BONUS)
- We talked about some good options from this branch, but at the end of the day I just don't think it’s going to be worth the big point investments.

27:57 RECAP

31:43 CONCLUSION

You'll have a couple of points left to play with (consider the extra bucket in Program Builder IMO) to get to 495 total points.

Hope this is all mostly accurate and that it helps you out with strategizing YOUR coach's build! Thanks for watching!!!

[Pentevere]

Isn’t there a 15 point unlock for Elite recruiter?

[fidel]

I wish they gave you the option to remove the point limit. How fun it would be to get a maxed coach

[ronaldross]

I like motivator it pairs well with recruiter if you allocate hrs and get gems to the NFL. It takes a couple seasons to fully see it pay dividends.

[mattbowie]

I always hammer o/d line cause you need the most quantity. Also secondary. Same reason

[lilpronto]

The thing here is it’s a good start and I believe it can only get better with the help of the community’s input, dynasty mode is definitely fun, a couple more new features, tweaked gameplay, more jerseys etc this game will be golden in a couple of years definitely heading In the right direction

[kyleprince]

I used my first 100 skill points to recruiter and then didn't spend any more until I had unlocked CEO. I unlocked the bundle discount and if both coordinators have the skill you are looking to add, it's 2 points less. Over a couple years by firing/hiring new coordinators, I was able to get all of the main archetype upgrade items I wanted for 3 points instead of 5. It's a hard grind at the beginning but once you can get unlocks for 3 points, it's 112 points cheaper to upgrade everything an archetype. By taking advantage of these savings across all of the main buckets, CEO will easily pay for itself.

[Welldunn]

The best breakdown I have seen so far and I’ve been watching a lot of videos about the coaching skill tree. Good work. I know this video took a LONG time to make.

[TheKingABM]

Forget the reset button that level 50 crap is for the birds yo!! I have 170k in XP just chilling there !!!

[sinchyld]

Great information, I was on the fence about using CEO.. but after watching your video. I realized I really don't need it.. thanks bro

[julianwatts]

Architect is a must it allows players to raise there cap and thus no more 84 4yr senior whose balled out for the past two seasons while his overall didn’t budge. Once I unlocked limitless, I was finally able to develop one of my quarterbacks into a 98 by the time he graduated and went to the draft as a redshirt sophomore

[Jayhawker]

Thanks for the video. This is the best breakdown of coaching abilities that I've come across on Youtube.

[WrongSpeedy]

I play Heisman with slowest coach progression. My favorite build is to start with recruiter. I put 100 points into recruiting and then save points. Then I go ceo as soon as I have 2 nc’s. I take instant commits and the skill that reduces ability costs when you have coordinators with those abilities.

The really cool think about this ability is that it stacks. So if both coordinators have a 5 cost ability it will only cost you 3 to unlock them. It only takes 9 abilities to make your 18 point investment back. And instant commit is single handedly the best ability in the game.

It saves you so many recruiting hours by locking in guys early. And sometimes nets you a high end recruit you wouldn’t have won in the long haul. Everyone you lock in early frees up points for someone else to scout more 4 star gems. I’ve actually hit 5 instant commits in a row before week 1 on 4 star gems.

Once I’ve unlocked this base set of abilities I usually have already made sure I have 2 coordinators who both have at least tier 3 in motivator. So I can unlock better offseason training for all positions for only 9 a piece instead of 15.

[akbaddupree]

very good info .. I do think ur under valuing the power of CEO ability Bundle Discount .. with the ability to fire and hire new coordinators every year .. u can manipulate the cost of the abilities u want going from 5 to 3 or 8 to 6 .. that 48 points u spend will pay itself off quickly and giving u the potential to get even more abilities than ur orginal estimate ..

[SirSymph]

Great video! I appreciate the analysis. This helps alot!

[MetalDawG]

Great advice on creating the best coach. I'll go similar but I'm going to test out CEO in order to unlock the instant commits.

[mikebjorem]

love your vids. Very helpful and well thought out

[vancevontaine]

You might as well unlock CEO and buy the bundle discount. It changes the price of each ability

30 + 18 = 48

But every upgrade goes from 5 to 3 and from 8 to 6.

W/O bundle the cost is: 5 x 4 + 5 x 4 = 40 upgrade credits after you win your second championship. In order to unlock, you have to spend 100 points in recruiter. So, 140 + 40 = 180.
Now, let's continue with the elite recruiter badge. Assuming you max upgrade this tree except for kicking that is going to cost you 7 (4 x 8) which comes out to 224. Great, you have maxed out recruiter!

Here is how many points you've spent: 148 (base recruiter upgrades @ 5c/per) + elite recruiter (7 categories at 8 credits an upgrade is 224 ) so you're at 372 spent, (plus 15 for elite recruiter) so, 387. You still have 113 points to spend.

Now, let's analyze what the bundle the cost is: Game makes you spend 100 credits in recruiter before CEO is unlocked. So, +100 upgrade credits. Now, you must win two national championships and you can purchase bundle upgrade. And once you win 2 natties, it costs 30 for the CEO and then 18 for the bundle discount. So, we're at 148.


You have 8 upgrades left to finish the base abilities. So, 8 x 3 = 24. Additionally, assuming that you upgrade the 7 categories at max discount for the elite recruiter section 7(4x6) 168.

Putting it all together: 148 + 168 is 316. Add the 15 for elite recruiter assuming you don't get the upgrade for free from the program builder ability. This is now 331. You still have 169 points to spend.

This is clearly the better route to go if you want to maximize your potential. After you've made it here, you can re-evaluate if you want to buy program builder and go for the friends and family discount which make accessing trees free if you have 2 coaches that already unlocked it. This way, you could purchase elite for 0c instead of 15c. The next branch you go after will also be free. But I'm not there yet to know if it's worth it.

[skullcruncher]

As someone who have done mostly dynasties with small schools.

I stand by motivation is a good tree, because you aren’t going be getting the 4 and 5 star players right away.

So being able to get a lot of training in for your 2 and 3 stars in the offseason pays off.

Plus I’m someone who a runs the ball nine times out of ten so getting boost to stamina, toughness, and all for my OL and running backs is something I like.

But honestly outside of CEO and Program burlier. I don’t think any tree is necessarily bad so feel like you benefit from any path after filling out recruiter.

[MoreElgato]

This was really helpful. It would be good to show the final product when u explain the final points so we can visualize what the fully realized points would look like, and I’m curious to see how this changes now that visits are patched. Again, really helpful video tho!!

[QUAKERSATTACKS]

Most assistants seem to be motivator/tactician or motivator/recruiter, so they can easily help in those categories.

I think that the best ability is the rising seniors one under CEO. While it only affects seniors, that cap raises their overall for the last season, boosting their max, their potential traits getting upgraded, etc.

With redshirts especially, 4/5 stars will usually have their potential capped by the skill caps, not by investment in a training tree. What skill caps a player has probably matters more than their development trait.