bot- i dropped my payroll by $10mil from last season....increased my HS scouting by 4mil (maxed from last season) and should've dropped my Int'l budget to get the college scouting up, but didn't. And really had I even split the difference and went to 17 in college and 18 in advanced, how big of a change would I have seen. Becaue based on the draft collusion talks in here it doesn't look like there has ever been that big of a discrepancy between pre/post draft ratings.......I made an effort to improve these areas knowing I had those picks and yet there is still something wrong with that?????  Hell, hasn't the biggest ***** about my team over the past up-teen seasons been the lack of production/wins with an overinflated payroll on a team of scrubs? So I go out and begin minimizing ridiuclous contracts and getting many of my prospects up (gratned players still not up to "acceptable coach" standards but well enough to keep my payroll down for long enough to build through the draft and maybe some trades here and there. If there is a 2nd manifesot to read than I am all for it, but in the mean time, pick one area to ***** about regarding my team and stick to it.