Is leaving. And well, yeah, it's me. FWIW, I've only ever played in Smith, and hold every record in the world, entirely with lowly B- baseline Alabama. I still have the top 2 RPIs in any world in any division ever (over 300,000 team seasons), and until I started losing interest, had the most championships per season of anyone with 7 or more. I loved this game desperately, hated the new recruiting, gave it a chance, but can no longer take it. Life is hard enough without finding a game wherein all the right recruiting decisions still have a pretty good chance of resulting in failure. I get that every day -- why sign up for more? Still, for years and years, while there have been better coaches, none ever loved this game as much as I. And I'll tell you -- I've recruited minutes before my wedding, while performing surgery, watching my wife give birth to our first son, and meeting with network executives. But I so dread recruiting now, combined with an untenable EE system, that I just can't go on, even when I have enough credits to play for free forever. I've made a bunch of great friends here, and I hate to say goodbye. I really, really did love this game. Thanks for all the fun.
Jeff

Man - we'll definitely miss you Jeff. You always were a threat to win titles in Smith. I do understand where you are coming from though. I think that the problem, besides the EE situation is also that maybe there are not enough resources, so you can only go after a few players. If you try to spread out, even with APs you lose your advantage. I don't honestly know what the solution is though, unless there was also a cap on AP. But if that was the case, luck would probably be even more of a factor in recruiting because teams would just be maxed out on more players, and the APs would also be even (if there was a cap on them). Really do hate to see you go. Hope you'll come back at some point after they (hopefully) address some of the issues now that the product has been out for a while.

Hate to see you go jeff -- we were never in a world together so never got to play you but admired your obvious skill at the game and stalked your teams in the hope of picking up pointers. I can totally relate to the whole "why do I want to come somewhere that I can do everything right and still be frustrated with it going wrong" when life throws enough of that stuff your way on a daily basis.

Best of luck to you man. The game will be losing yet another great coach.

Just out of curiosity, Jeff, would you stay if WIS rolled HD back to the 2.0 version?

Sorry to see you go Jeff. I was really hoping to have the challenge of competing with you in Smith in DI some day, as you are the undisputed king of that world.

Having spent most of my career in smith I can say you will be missed as you are one of the greats.

Jeff I will miss you! Playing in Smith for all these years and have been beaten by you numerous times! Best of Luck Jeff.


Tom

jeffdrayer Its been fun playing you and having you in the Big 12-SEC Challenge. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do next. I am sure Alabama will always welcome you back in Smith.

sorry to hear you're leaving, but the game is what it is now. you've had a hell of a career, and you knocked off my two best teams ever in smith! best of luck.

Sorry to hear you go. Always sucks for a change after so many years but it's not so bad.

Posted by kcsundevil on 9/26/2017 11:33:00 PM (view original):
Just out of curiosity, Jeff, would you stay if WIS rolled HD back to the 2.0 version?

Yeah, I would've stayed forever.

GL Jeff, enjoyed playing you over the years

Completely understand, Jeff.
I have tried and tried to give 3.0 a chance but just can't enjoy a competition sim game that socialistically rewards mediocrity.
Good luck moving forward.

Posted by stewdog on 10/7/2017 11:06:00 AM (view original):
Completely understand, Jeff.
I have tried and tried to give 3.0 a chance but just can't enjoy a competition sim game that socialistically rewards mediocrity.
Good luck moving forward.

Dude, it doesn't reward mediocrity just recruiting mediocre players.

(Projected MikeT23 response)

Nah. I'd have gotten bored if I went the Final Four 75% of the time over the last 10 years. There's no challenge.