?The way this game is set up, right or wrong, is that if you recruit correctly, your freshmen should very, VERY rarely be better than your upperclassmen anyway.
That may be true, but it ignores two things:
1. You may inherit a team which wasn't "correctly" recruited (as is the case here with my team).
2. Recruiting doesn't always go perfectly, and you may not end up with a perfectly "correct" team.
Either way, you shouldn't have to adjust how you coach because of a prima donna player making demands.
The game favors juniors and seniors, so if you're playing freshmen at the expense of your upperclassmen, you've either recruited badly or you're punting the season to give your younger players extended minutes.
As I said, there are at least two exceptions to what you're saying, which I gave above. My team is a case in this point: I neither recruited badly nor am I "punting the season".
?But that's just not how the game works and I would sincerely hope that if Seble were to make more changes to the game that the work ethic issue wouldn't be very high up on his list of things to fix.
It's been the most annoying feature I've encountered so far this year (and I didn't play for a few years, but this feature was not always present, or if it was, I never knew about it). That being the case, it's the one I'd MOST like to see changed. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
But he wants to have no consequences whatsoever for his choices, see.
This pretty well sums it up.
If my game plan doesn't work out, I can deal with that. But as far as consequences from players making demands - you're d*** right I don't want any consequences from those crybabies.
?But you shouldn't expect zero reaction / change in work ethic
There are plenty of people like that in real life. They might not be happy about a situation, but they work through it and don't whine or cry and give up or make demands and ultimatums. None of them are robots.
Why is it too much to ask for it in a simulated game which is (again, however loosely) based upon real life college basketball?
I think it's fair to expect a RANGE of reactions, including some players who would not react by losing a single point of WE.