All the talk of numeric rankings ignores the bigger issue with FT ratings, which apparently doesn't turn red (or green) under 3.0.
So if you recruit a kid in 3.0 who has a yellow FT rating of C+, is said player...
a. capped already?
b. capable of growth, but you'll never see it? (from just inside the C/C+ borderline to a cap at in the high C+ range), or
c. able to improve to a B- before hitting his cap? (because in 2.0, a red FT rating is capable of raising one step).
Any of the three are theoretically correct in that situation, so what's the best coaching play in those situations? Allocate minimal FT practice minutes and just take the offseason gains so as to avoid wasting anything?
I agree that I can track the changes in color schemes to learn where a player's cap is on all the numeric rankings (whether I should have to do so is another matter, but absolutely I can do it). But how does one play a three-color scheme for a non-numeric letter grade that is, itself, a mask for an actual percentage number in a world with no maxed out messages.