A question for those who might switch teams fairly often. Once you've decided to leave a school that you may have been at for 4+ seasons, do you begin to tank the recruiting classes so that the next coach can't pick up with your talent and be an instant winner? I took over a team ranked 119 out of 120 according to NextGuess. They have been a traditional power, but it almost seems like the roster was intentionally tanked. I'm not complaining, I'm just curious about that mindset. It will be a fun challenge to get the roster rebuilt and rebalanced. I'll have to sign 18 guys this season. Not my favorite approach.

Na, that’s bush league crapola. If a former human team’s last recruiting class or two seems like a tank job it may be the coach abandoned it. Check to see if he’s/she’s still coaching in that world - if they are then who knows… maybe it is a case of bush league.

Not sure I have known anyone to do that. Recently in D1A a coach didnt recruit several of his teams. Would speculate that something happened but no way to know.

Posted by 0bigzeke0 on 10/30/2025 11:49:00 PM (view original):
I have always been an advocate of the prestige attached to any team belongs to the coach. If a high prestige coach leaves, say a championship team, the coaches new team bounces up to high prestige, but the team he leaves goes back to average vision (for lower levels). For upper levels, when a high prestige coach leaves, some of the better players also leave because they came for that coach. No one should be rewarded for carpetbagging onto a top level team they did not create.

So in a real world example, Kalen Deboer shouldn't benefit from the roster Nick Saban recruited? Les Miles and Ed Orgeron both benefitted from that foundation at LSU and each won a natty. They were both fired within a few years.

It's not an apples to apples comparison these days with NIL and the transfer portal, but if the goal of WIS is to have some aspects of "real world college football," I don't see how you could remove the "carpetbagging."

I find the best part of the game is a roster rebuild. It is more satisfying to take a crap team and turn it into a top 10 than to inherit a really good team. Often the gains you can make are small.

Posted by ksparks on 10/31/2025 10:06:00 AM (view original):

Posted by 0bigzeke0 on 10/30/2025 11:49:00 PM (view original):
I have always been an advocate of the prestige attached to any team belongs to the coach. If a high prestige coach leaves, say a championship team, the coaches new team bounces up to high prestige, but the team he leaves goes back to average vision (for lower levels). For upper levels, when a high prestige coach leaves, some of the better players also leave because they came for that coach. No one should be rewarded for carpetbagging onto a top level team they did not create.

So in a real world example, Kalen Deboer shouldn't benefit from the roster Nick Saban recruited? Les Miles and Ed Orgeron both benefitted from that foundation at LSU and each won a natty. They were both fired within a few years.

It's not an apples to apples comparison these days with NIL and the transfer portal, but if the goal of WIS is to have some aspects of "real world college football," I don't see how you could remove the "carpetbagging."

The roster in D1A would still be essentially intact except for maybe 3 players (a favorite number for GD). Elites would still be elites and down the line. At lower levels the adjustment would be to vision.