Is this super unusual or does this sometimes happen?

At the almost end (we're in Conference Tournies in Allen) of my senior SF's fifth campaign, I finally received my first email from my assistant letting me know that SF is maxed out in a category.  (Not that it is all that relevant, but free throws and went from a F to a C.)

When I signed him I knew that his 39 speed had low potential so I wasn't surprised when it never budged over the course of his redshirt season.  One thing I must have missed, however, was that when he played as a redshirt freshman the speed had dropped to 38.  Something I missed because I don't save pre/post offseason changes for tracking like you are supposed to do.

Anyway, he played as a second year freshman with speed 38 and that never moved.  Same thing as a sophomore, a junior, and now a senior.

I only now discovered it used to be at 39 when I went to go back and see how much that free throw development had occurred over five seasons.  And I have it recorded at 39 both in the spreadsheet I used for recruiting that season and also for the conference roster data dump I do each season.

For what it is worth, his WE is poor.  It started at 30 and is now just 54.  Although I find it hard to believe that has anything to do with it.  He has developed 222 points in the other categories over the past five seasons and that includes 21 points in athleticism and 20 points in stamina so it wasn't like I was ignoring minutes in conditioning.

This obviously doesn't mean much of anything but it just seems really, really odd.  Anybody had something like this?

Yeah, it happens.  I guess when the actual cap is maybe something like 39.0 and it's hard to maintain.  I had a C a while back who had 100 rebounding most or all of his junior year, in the offseason it dropped to 99 and no amount of minutes would get it back up.

He put on the freshman 15 and never lost it.  :shrug

This happens to stamina all the time. I had a C with 81 stamina when he was recruited. Graduated with 77 in stamina. I suppose this happens to other categories as well but I simply never noticed. I saw the stamina because this guy was on my FCP team where stamina mattered more than his cores. 

How poor? If it is single digit poor then a lower attribute after graduation then when he came in doesn't surprise me.

Thanks guys.  The stamina wouldn't have really surprised me since that goes down a bunch in the offseason but I thought this was a bit unusual since he does his conditioning work every day for five seasons.  And the fact that I've never witnessed the rating increase/decrease during the season seems a bit odd now that I realize it isn't at the max.

Guessing something like dahsdebater suggested.  Was at 39.0 the redshirt season, dropped to 38.0 in the offseason, conditioning over the season only brought it up to 38.9 and then it dropped again to 38 .... repeating 4 times over.  No variance, the same thing 4 times.

Like I said, no biggie (of course) but it just seemed quite unusual to me.  Although I'm not in the habit of recruiting players with low potential in speed so I don't have a huge list of those players.