Just a question to the HD Nation.  I would like it if when you take a new job the players you recruit would be able to change schools with you.  Just my thought that it would be a good thing.  If people can quit on a coach why can't they go with the coach they like if the coach takes a new position. 

If you switched three seaons in a row, you could have a roster full of studs....take the best from your former team and cut the riff-raff

If you like the players you recruit, stay at the school. Build it into a winner. That's the premise behind the game.

The whole concept of players taking recruits with them when they shift jobs creates a host of headaches. For example, what happens when a guy at a low-prestige D2 or D1 program moves down and takes a position at a high-prestige school a division lower? Quite likely the guys a D+ prestige signs in one division would have been on the screen for an A+ at the next division down, so...? What about at D1 when someone from a doormat Big Six program moves to take over a mid-major (given current hiring logic, I don't know if this is even possible...but that's a rant for another day...). Are we going to see Vanderbilt's recruits suddenly depart for Tulsa or something? Think of the potential for abuse as players grab low-success programs in high-human conferences for a year to use the league's bonus cash to recruit, then transfer to a less-competitive league, taking their recruits with them,  Think of how badly it would suck for the other humans in the conference to see a school in their membership suddenly disintegrate because the coach got restless feet and took the young nucleus of that program with him.

I hate to bring the real world into a fantasy game, but in this case I think the parallel should remain. Kids sign their letter of intent with the school, not the coach. Their obligation is to the school, not the guy who persuades them to sign four years of their life away. Allowing the players to go with the coach would be horrendous for the game.

This just isn't a good idea.  If you want to switch to a new school, you're taking what the new school has, you are sacrificing.  And, just like alblack said, you could essentially build a super-team by switching a couple years in a row instead of staying and building a program.  

There are a whole host of problems with this idea.

It might be realistic (maybe) if every now and then ONE player might want to go with a departing coach to a new school, maybe if he already was leaning toward transfering and would rather go where the coach goes.

Somewhat off-topic, but if a guy was already considering transferring, why would he want to follow the coach from the program he already wanted to leave?

Perhaps he wants to leave BECAUSE he wants to stick with the coach and heard he's leaving.

Or perhaps it's simply a case of he loves the coach but doesn't like the school he's at, so since the coach is leaving, it'd be easy to go with him.

Just because someone doesn't like the school and wants to transfer doesn't always mean they don't like the coach.

I moved from NW Nazarene to Presbyterian. The new coach at NW Nazarene cut a player he didn't want, which caused a very good player to decide to leave. I knew he was good and still had good potential because I had recruited him and I keep detailed records of all of my players, so when I saw him available, I was able to recruit him and land him, even though he was all the way across the country. Had him for his junior and senior year.

Posted by bistiza on 10/19/2012 3:44:00 PM (view original):
Perhaps he wants to leave BECAUSE he wants to stick with the coach and heard he's leaving.

Or perhaps it's simply a case of he loves the coach but doesn't like the school he's at, so since the coach is leaving, it'd be easy to go with him.

Just because someone doesn't like the school and wants to transfer doesn't always mean they don't like the coach.

There is no logic for any of that in the game.  The 1 reason players transfer is because they're mad about broken promises or insufficient playing time.  Those are coach things.

If the best players from your first team moved with you then you switch teams and you switch teams again your team will be full of rock stars if your best players keep on coming.

Oops i didnt know alblack already said that, sorry.