I'm having a rough go at this right now, every time I get enough APs in to give a guy a scholarship, he signs that cycle to someone else. This has happened like 8 times so far, very frustrating.

Posted by MonsterTurtl on 1/1/2017 11:44:00 AM (view original):
I'm having a rough go at this right now, every time I get enough APs in to give a guy a scholarship, he signs that cycle to someone else. This has happened like 8 times so far, very frustrating.

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Posted by CoachSpud on 1/1/2017 1:21:00 PM (view original):
There are always plenty of recruits not considering anyone. You would have plenty of time to sign them. If all you do is climb on a kid's caboose and he signs with someone else, all you can do is join the whining about how unfair the period-two recruiting is.

I am not sure what you mean by this.

Some of these guys were not even considering anyone when I put the APs on, some other team would offer a scholarship the same cycle and sign them.

Also, the players that aren't considering anyone are not good, you can't rebuild a team with bad players.

I am going to have to have these mediocre players that I find for 4 more years.

I know I am complaining, but there is an issue here, almost every good player is spoken for by the time a new coach is able to recruit them. I took over this team from a sim, so there was not a single AP already spent to aid me in the second period. It would be different if I could capitalize on some of the effort that the sim put in, or capitalize on the effort I put into players at my old school. That second option would be realistic, in real life when Buzz Williams left Marquette to come to Virginia Tech, he brought over some of the players he had been recruiting to go to Marquette. The kids are recruited by a coach not a school, most players don't want to go to the school with a coach they don't even know. I would gladly have taken the guys that I was recruiting at Hawaii. This of course would exclude anybody that had already committed. You would just be allowed to carry over some of the effort put into the player to your new school, but you would have to re-offer a scholarship.

Posted by CoachSpud on 12/31/2016 2:00:00 PM (view original):
Okay, zorzii, five in a row. Quite a few in a row with positive sentiment ... until snafu, of course.

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guess we are stuck with spudhole for another freaking year.....

Spud : turtle is right. It's either you do not have time to get enough effort in before they sign or you can't find anything really D1. I lived the same problem at PSU. At least be honest. And SIMS recruit like idiots, nothing to build on.

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/1/2017 9:59:00 PM (view original):
"I took over this team from a sim, so there was not a single AP already spent to aid me in the second period."

That's very, very weird. Every time I have changed jobs under HD 3.0 the previous sim coach had made recruiting efforts that I could build on. Every time. What did you do to follow up on the efforts the previous sim coach had made?

But Spud, you have only changed jobs once in 3.0. In another thread about recruiting you very adamantly argued that just one example means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You repeated it many times. Since you have only changed jobs once; from a mediocre DII to a "no requirements needed for hiring except paying your monthly fee" craptastic DI, we can only conclude, based on your logic--the logic that you repeated many, many times--that what you are saying now means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/2/2017 12:40:00 AM (view original):
snafu, good try but no deal, sorry. I have changed jobs 3 or more times under HD 3.0. And what I said is that one RECRUIT proves absolutely nothing. Your attempt to rewrite history to try to discredit me simply doesn't work. What I said still stands.

Unless you share your aliases I can only call you a liar. Your history shows one team, with one job change under 3.0.. Put up or shut up.

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/1/2017 1:21:00 PM (view original):
There are always plenty of recruits not considering anyone. You would have plenty of time to sign them. If all you do is climb on a kid's caboose and he signs with someone else, all you can do is join the whining about how unfair the period-two recruiting is.

This might be one the most ridiculous things I've read in a long time on here. And trust me there have been some gems.

Posted by snafu4u on 1/2/2017 1:56:00 AM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 1/2/2017 12:40:00 AM (view original):
snafu, good try but no deal, sorry. I have changed jobs 3 or more times under HD 3.0. And what I said is that one RECRUIT proves absolutely nothing. Your attempt to rewrite history to try to discredit me simply doesn't work. What I said still stands.

Unless you share your aliases I can only call you a liar. Your history shows one team, with one job change under 3.0.. Put up or shut up.

Spud has already said he basically uses the coachspud name just to troll the boards.

He's also already been called out for potentially cheating by using alt IDs but didn't even defend himself. He clearly wants to retain this illusion that he's a masterful coach. Which no one believes anyway so I don't really see the point.

Posted by MonsterTurtl on 1/1/2017 3:03:00 PM (view original):
I am going to have to have these mediocre players that I find for 4 more years.

I know I am complaining, but there is an issue here, almost every good player is spoken for by the time a new coach is able to recruit them. I took over this team from a sim, so there was not a single AP already spent to aid me in the second period. It would be different if I could capitalize on some of the effort that the sim put in, or capitalize on the effort I put into players at my old school. That second option would be realistic, in real life when Buzz Williams left Marquette to come to Virginia Tech, he brought over some of the players he had been recruiting to go to Marquette. The kids are recruited by a coach not a school, most players don't want to go to the school with a coach they don't even know. I would gladly have taken the guys that I was recruiting at Hawaii. This of course would exclude anybody that had already committed. You would just be allowed to carry over some of the effort put into the player to your new school, but you would have to re-offer a scholarship.

Or Jucos for 2-3 years. Or walk-ons for 1 year. You DON'T HAVE to recruit HS freshmen.