I lost my 3rd string Sophmore center due to minutes.  I carried 3 power forwards and 3 centers last year.  The starting forward had been the conference defense player of the year and the starting center was the player of the year in the conference.  Both second stringers were juniors and the starters were both seniors.  The third strings were both sophmores.  The sophmore center complained but I could not afford to play him because I was in a real dogfight for the division top spot.  If I could respond to his email threats i could have told him to hang tight and tell him that he was going to get about 20 minutes of playing time next season because I did not plan on recruiting any big men next season.  Any ideas why this type of communication is not part of the sim?

Well although you had high aspirations for your player, many coaches would likely reply something like "If you showed me anything you would get more pt. You are a lazy, poor shooting, weak defending, useless piece of space and you should consider yourself lucky you got the minutes you did."

In other words, there are too many variables to make this type of thing practical. Also, there is no way to guarantee any promises made would be kept if the current coach changed jobs or left the following season. You just have to live with the current programming that says that Sophs want approximately 7-8 mpg and Jrs want approximately 11-13 mpg. Many times the player will complain but not leave. Your situation just happened to be one where the player actually left.

it doesn't matter if you can answer the emails or not.  what would you say, anyway?  it's obviously your fault. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymXdRQDISg

Good thing you can't because my response would normally be "STFU, you're not playing because the crappy sim/user coach recruited you before I got here and I would've never given you a phone call" or "STFU, I made a terrible mistake by recruiting you so I corrected it by finding better players and just didn't cut you yet."

Buckeye, you want to actually write them a detailed e-mail?  And they're going to understand it?  You do realize that IBM just spent years developing Watson to have rudimentary ability to understand human speech?  And that that was Jeopardy question level speech?  And now you want WiS to have a computer that's going to interpret the grammatically craptacular, jargon-riddled, misspelling-loaded e-mails of HD coaches?  That's literally the most ridiculous suggestion I've ever heard on here.  The most you could do would be to make promises for the following year similar to those you make during recruiting.  I'd be generally fine with that, but it could be a dangerous trap for new coaches.  Since promises made to juniors for their senior years could really only be punished with reputation hits, they'd have to make the reputation hits for failing to fulfill promises to rostered players very steep.  And probably make reputation weigh more heavily on recruiting.  Could lead you down a bad road quickly if you weren't careful.

Haha, bow that was freakin classic man.

I don't want to start Email conversations with my players, either.  That can only lead to, "Why do you think all your booze disappears while you're on recruiting trips? And does your  wife seems more tired than usual??  Has she mumbled my name in her sleep?"

Writing emails to players is obviously impossible, but I've wondered to myself a few times if it might not be a bad addition to the game to be able to promise minutes to a player you currently have.  For instance, you have a Soph complaining, and you know you aren't going to be able to fulfull his minutes desired.  But you also view him as a contributor next season, and dont want him to leave.  As such, you make a minutes promise for next season just like you would a recruit, with all the same repercussions.  Then that promise factors in to whether he sticks around.

Very low on my list on things I'd like to see, but just throwing it out there.

next time, have ur underclassmen start against bad sims on your schedule. it will increase their mpg and also help them grow faster. 

Posted by kmasonbx1 on 3/4/2011 1:04:00 AM (view original):
Good thing you can't because my response would normally be "STFU, you're not playing because the crappy sim/user coach recruited you before I got here and I would've never given you a phone call" or "STFU, I made a terrible mistake by recruiting you so I corrected it by finding better players and just didn't cut you yet."

Normally, my response would be (a), "The Sim coach is gone.  Get over it.  My 18 year old freshmen are better than you are as a senior.  Maybe you should get a job at Taco Bell to pay back that scholarship."

Rather than an email exchange with a recruit (which in RL would probably have been face-to-face), why not have the ability to promise minutes to a kid  you DO like after they're on your roster, instead of only during recruiting?

In all seriousness, why can't they add something that allows you to promise minutes or starts the following season in an attempt to keep players buried on your depth chart in the current season from transferring?  Seems like it would be fairly easy to add that (just like you can promise things in recruiting).

Posted by mduncanhogs on 3/4/2011 1:43:00 PM (view original):
In all seriousness, why can't they add something that allows you to promise minutes or starts the following season in an attempt to keep players buried on your depth chart in the current season from transferring?  Seems like it would be fairly easy to add that (just like you can promise things in recruiting).

There's no guaratee you'll still be the coach next season. I wouldn't want to take over a program and inherit your promises.

Posted by alblack56 on 3/4/2011 1:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mduncanhogs on 3/4/2011 1:43:00 PM (view original):
In all seriousness, why can't they add something that allows you to promise minutes or starts the following season in an attempt to keep players buried on your depth chart in the current season from transferring?  Seems like it would be fairly easy to add that (just like you can promise things in recruiting).

There's no guaratee you'll still be the coach next season. I wouldn't want to take over a program and inherit your promises.

GD allows coaches to recruit players with promises of sophomore starts if I remember correctly. Wonder how it handles a coaching change mid-promise and the kid still expects his sophomore start or if the promise is considered gone with the coach that made it. 

Posted by alblack56 on 3/4/2011 1:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mduncanhogs on 3/4/2011 1:43:00 PM (view original):
In all seriousness, why can't they add something that allows you to promise minutes or starts the following season in an attempt to keep players buried on your depth chart in the current season from transferring?  Seems like it would be fairly easy to add that (just like you can promise things in recruiting).

There's no guaratee you'll still be the coach next season. I wouldn't want to take over a program and inherit your promises.

One way to handle it would be the following:  If you take over a team with pending promises, you either endorse or rescind each promise.  The players then get another chance to decide if they want to stay or not.  You would have to decide by 4 pm the day of recruiting (the cut off for new coaches) otherwise the default option is chosen (not sure which it should be).

Posted by alblack56 on 3/4/2011 1:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mduncanhogs on 3/4/2011 1:43:00 PM (view original):
In all seriousness, why can't they add something that allows you to promise minutes or starts the following season in an attempt to keep players buried on your depth chart in the current season from transferring?  Seems like it would be fairly easy to add that (just like you can promise things in recruiting).

There's no guaratee you'll still be the coach next season. I wouldn't want to take over a program and inherit your promises.

This is easily taken care of by not allowing coaches to make such promises unless they have enough purchased seasons remaining to cover the seasons for which those promises are made.  Seems like it would also be a smart way for WIS to retain more coaches.