So Recruiting in Hoops Dynasty... I love it! lol.
You have 2 windows to recruit in the game, the 1st is 5 RL days which occurs just before the regular season ends and conf tournaments start. The 2nd is 3 days at the end of the season.
As I mentioned before, you can scout guys almost all season, provided you have funds.
Recruiting works like this. You always get 20 attention pts (AP) plus an additional 20 per opening for the next season. Ie. 3 SRs, you'd have 80 AP. Minimum 20 AP.
Once the recruiting window opens, you place 0 to 20 AP on target players. 4 times a day (5 & 9 AM & PM) pts are applied to targets. As pts go up, you unlock options such as offer scholarship, home visit, etc. Once you decide a target is no longer desirable you can adjust your points as you see fit. So for example, if I have 10 AP going to player x but find another player who has less targets on him, I could drop him down to 0 and place the 10 AP on the other player or split it up among any number of guys how i see fit. During the next window (5 or 9 Am/Pm) pts would then be applied to the new targets.
If you only set 40 of 80 AP, you'd be wasting 40 AP each cycle, so it's to your advantage to place all your pts. Though for the first window, you'd want to put fewer on more guys and then evaluate your chances vs other potential schools.
Being in D3 is challenging as D1 & D2 schools have more resources to poach and the best strategy, I've read, is to stay close to home. Within 300 miles.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Edit: Also, note you can remove scholarships later in the season. You're only allowed 12, but if you have a walk on or are able to upgrade, you can drop at the end of season before recruiting session 2.