I haven't seen anything except walkons who contact me since 2.0 began.....am I missing something?

yeah, broken promises or lack of playing time will cause a transfer

I think there are few players who transfer these days for those reasons - at least at DI

Just about all the transfers I see were guys who were cut

I lost players when I did not play them as sophomores or juniors. I did lose two players because I broke promises. One hurt. So yesh, it happens often.

I try to keep my promises and have never had a player transfer.

Posted by smackawits on 4/3/2018 3:04:00 PM (view original):
I haven't seen anything except walkons who contact me since 2.0 began.....am I missing something?

Walkons aren’t contacting you. The ‘f’ grades you see aren’t really Fs, you just haven’t scouted them yet.

If you click on the player’s former team and look for him in the game logs, you can see his ratings, and can sometimes make a guess at potential based on how he’s progressed, if you’re short on scouting cash.

Geez, nice catch Shoe, I completely missed that one.

See and recruit transfers all the time. Most are from broken promises. Have had kids leave my program for same, broken promises.

thanks shoe...I didn;t know that

People may also not know how to scout for transfers. You don’t have to wait for them to contact you, although the ones that contact you can be recruited even if you don’t have any scouting budget left - with no scouting budget, you do only have access to the ones who contact you.

If I’m looking to discover transfers in my region, I usually start locally with the assistant search, covering a radius that I’ve already completely scouted. I can’t use FSS again for those states, so I need my assistant to find new guys. When I use the assistant in the first session, I usually make sure to uncheck the “find new players” option, because in the first session, I’m using him to go deeper on recruits I already know about. For transfers, I do the opposite. I uncheck the “further scout existing players” option, because I only want him to find these guys for me, I don’t necessarily want him to fully scout them 4 levels. Keep in mind, the way I generally scout is to completely scout locally. If you go beyond the radius of what you’ve completely scouted at this level, using the assistant will bring in HS players as well as transfers. Depending on how much budget you have, you may not want that.

If you haven’t used the FSS for a state yet, doing so in the second session will uncover transfers (as well as all the unsigned HS dregs that are still sitting out there) available at that time. If you wait until the last day or so of recruiting, you can often get in most of the rest of the country this way (assuming you have some scouting budget left). It’s not highly efficient, but it’s another way to “discover” transfers.

Has anyone had a a soph or junior transfer in the last 10 seasons due to lack of playing time? All the transfers I have seen are cuts or broken promises to freshman or jucos.

I thought I read somewhere that only players angry about their promises will transfer now. Soph or juniors without promises won't transfer, just lose work ethic. But I could be wrong.

So I just took over a team in Knight. I have a sophomore who is complaining about lack of playing time. I did not recruit the player so I am OK if he leaves. My question is, will he transfer out/leave on his own, and when will I know if he is doing that so that I know if I have a another scholarship to fill during recruiting?

Or can I just cut him and when can I?

You can cut him when RS2 begins and you will get 20 AP extra, and recruiting $s for an open scholarship. The amount is based on which Division you play in. As long as the recruit doesn't have your name on him