Posted by johnsensing on 2/15/2017 3:16:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Benis on 2/15/2017 2:55:00 PM (view original):
What about team success? What prevents a team from literally tanking and losing on purpose to get a VG for Wants Rebuild?
"Team success" is a multi-season thing. I'm at my first season at Syracuse in Allen, and the last two seasons we've missed the post-season entirely (RPIs of 178 and 263), and we're going to miss it this year (current RPI of 155) -- I'm still "good" on "wants success," and "bad" on "wants rebuild" (which is sort of ridiculous, since I've never had a team more in need of rebuilding). Highly doubt you'll see a multi-year tank job just for that 1 preference.
Right, big 6 teams, especially high baseline big 6 teams, are never going to get to rebuild status for recruits. Wants rebuild is a lifeline for low D1 programs that are taken over in disarray. It's not going to make sense to try to tank to get that box checked.
But it could make sense, for someone unconcerned about exploiting loopholes, to go uptempo and jack up 3s, regardless of the team he has, in order to have VG for those two preferences. Those will be advantages not many teams have. And if they're in a rebuilding year anyway, or a mostly-sim conference, not maximizing the present team's efficiency if it helps score some select recruits will be an angle some coaches will try to exploit.
If coaches were generally unconcerned about manipulating their teams to line up their preference profiles, this thread wouldn't even exist.