Posted by seble on 5/22/2014 3:46:00 PM (view original):
Posted by gillispie1 on 5/22/2014 3:12:00 PM (view original):
Posted by seble on 5/22/2014 3:05:00 PM (view original):
The drawback to basing on playing time is that you'd theoretically have to wait quite a while for a player to become eligible. I like the idea of being able to adjust positions immediately upon recruits showing up. The one idea that makes sense to me is limiting it to a window of time, possibly up until the regular season starts. That way, a player is set for that season at least.
the amount of time between recruiting ending and the season starting is small. i know i am not alone amongst coaches who are highly active during recruiting, then dying to set their team up... but the waiting 2 more days kills the momentum and then its a struggle just to get the team ready by the first regular season game. its normal to have micro periods of high and low interest alternate, but its unfortunate you can't set the team up right away, to get that important job done during a peak, instead of a valley of interest... anyway, adding one more thing that *has* to be done that early would really suck for folks like me. i basically had to give up on redshirts, after so many seasons paying for it in recruiting, then forgetting to put it on until after the 1st or 2nd game...
i like this change but i think limiting to the 1.5-2 day window immediately following the dead zone that is the end of recruiting, is the worst of all possibilities. i think the abuse potential is over stated here. what about until non conference is over? or 5 days into the season even? that would give ample time, while avoiding the pre-conference award shuffle problems.
You're saying that the two days between recruiting end and start of regular season is a low interest time? I would've thought the opposite. Don't you log on to set up depths/practice/etc. for the new recruits? That seems like the optimal time for adjusting positions.
I'm not opposed to extending the window if necessary, just surprised that this wouldn't be the popular time frame to do it.
well... it is a popular time. the thing is, recruiting is SO intense... and you get all pumped, dreaming of what could be if everything goes the way you want, and all that, before reality has to set in. if after signings, i could set my team up, i'd be all over it, totally into it. but the problem is, then you have to wait the rest of the day, then 2 more full days, before players show up, and then you have only 12 hours before you miss the first practice. being so into recruiting, i always get a bit burnt out right after. so once you get down off the "high" of recruiting, i've always had a bit of a low interest period. unfortunately, setting up the team is something i usually love, but half the time i end up dreading it, because i have SO little time to do it (before being penalized with misses practices), plus im off the high from recruiting, so it almost turns into work. if you could set your team up right after you personally finished recruiting, it would definitely keep the high interest going a bit longer, but the dead period kind of kills it.
i am definitely an extreme case, i played too hard and really burnt myself out. but i have heard from many other coaches that they forgot to set their team up, on many occasions - usually because they got bored waiting and lost track of time, or got bored waiting and didn't feel like checking in, and didn't realize it was already the first real game, or whatever.