I haven't had to promise many recruits guaranteed minutes and when I have, I've never been in any danger of making the promise hold up. This season, I might have misread just how useful a recruit was going to be in the preseason. So the question...when you promise a kid, say, 10 minutes a game, is he basing his happiness/displeasure on: 

1. The number of games that he gets in where he plays more/less than 10 minutes? 

OR 2. The average number of minutes per game played at season's end? (in which case I can jack his PT up for the weak SimAI conference gimmes and probably have no troubles at all...)

Assuming he's in every game, he needs to play 260 minutes for the year in order to average 10 min/game.  I've done this, with no problem, by upping his minutes against weak opponents.  The only issue occurs if those weak games are too far apart and he starts complaini

Start the guy the first game get him his 10 minutes then dont play him again all season.

Posted by alblack56 on 8/13/2010 4:45:00 AM (view original):

Assuming he's in every game, he needs to play 260 minutes for the year in order to average 10 min/game.  I've done this, with no problem, by upping his minutes against weak opponents.  The only issue occurs if those weak games are too far apart and he starts complaini