Posted by jeffdrayer on 6/18/2012 6:45:00 PM (view original):
Is that true, that you can go from leading to "To Late..." without hearing you're behind?  I thought a change had been made to prevent that. 

The details are -- I first had the indecipherable message from the OP.  Then, without doing anything got the "Coach, you my best school I play basket. I need wait for sign so I say yes. Hope sign come soon."  Which made me suspect my opponent (Miss St.) put in some effort.  As I was fighting for someone else at the same time, I hoped against hope that this message was as good as it sounded and I was still in the lead, and did not put in any more effort.  4-5 cycles later I got the Too Late email, but it turned out Syracuse had pounced from the blue and outspent us both.  As I was out of money and it was overnight, I didn't notice how many cycles before actually signing him Syracuse showed up.

So, to conclude: either A) I went from leading to Too Late... without ever hearing I was behind, or more likely: B)  "Coach, you my best school I play basket. I need wait for sign so I say yes. Hope sign come soon" means you're losing -- which is stupid. 

Posted by jeffdrayer on 6/18/2012 6:45:00 PM (view original):
Is that true, that you can go from leading to "To Late..." without hearing you're behind?  I thought a change had been made to prevent that. 

The details are -- I first had the indecipherable message from the OP.  Then, without doing anything got the "Coach, you my best school I play basket. I need wait for sign so I say yes. Hope sign come soon."  Which made me suspect my opponent (Miss St.) put in some effort.  As I was fighting for someone else at the same time, I hoped against hope that this message was as good as it sounded and I was still in the lead, and did not put in any more effort.  4-5 cycles later I got the Too Late email, but it turned out Syracuse had pounced from the blue and outspent us both.  As I was out of money and it was overnight, I didn't notice how many cycles before actually signing him Syracuse showed up.

So, to conclude: either A) I went from leading to Too Late... without ever hearing I was behind, or more likely: B)  "Coach, you my best school I play basket. I need wait for sign so I say yes. Hope sign come soon" means you're losing -- which is stupid. 

Posted by emy1013 on 6/19/2012 5:08:00 PM (view original):
This is probably a minor point and it's a bit off topic, but I find it rather offensive and degrading with how the international recruits repsonses are worded.  Especially since, after they sign with your school, all the messages then come in perfect English.  Maybe they were meant to be funny a long, long time ago, but they really need to be changed to be in line with all the other recruit's responses, if for no other reason than the confusion that they cause as shown with Jeff's situation.

Maybe I'm particularly sensitive to them since I have a foreign spouse and foreign in-laws, but I still think they need to be changed.  Okay, forum police, kill me with how I need to lighten up, I've opened myself up to it.  Have a nice day, but please be gentle.

Awesome.