uknownick wrote:Hi all, new player of CB19 here. I just want to know how you manage team relationship and coach relationship. Also how do you manage attitude problem?
I have a stud player 4.5/5 as a freshman averaging 17 and 10 a game but he always wants to transfer out (tried a few different saves and same thing happens over and over again). I have noticed his team relationship bar just drops like crazy over the course of the season. And by the end of the NCAA tournament, he will be at almost 0 on Team Relationship. Is there a player he doesnt like?
Is it because my prestige is too low? 54 as Northwestern but we were #13 team in NCAA and second in Big 10.
I dont know what to do here. Should I just let him walk after one year? He is the cornerstone of my team and best player on the squad.
As always, stay true to your coach model and his discipline rating. Especially if you are using at as a pitch on home visits to recruits. If you are promising them high discipline they'll expect it even if they don't need to be disciplined themselves. Your coaching relationship with THOSE players will suffer if you don't attend to problems. You have to be gentle at first with Freshmen though, because they all start with fairly low team and coach relationships, but they get better as they mature. You may have let some of the sillier stuff like "arguing about who has the uglier girlfriend" go. I never let a player hangup on me though til he tells me what i want to hear (with a high discipline coach, that is), if i give him enough opportunities to apologize, he'll get a suspension. If he continues to be a problem he'll get less rope. Usually by the time the season starts they fall in line. Obviously if you aren't high on discipline you are going to have to let more slide.
In the dynasty i was just coaching i inherited a player that was a pain in the ass. Even by his senior year his relationship with his teammates was rocky, and I had to suspend him 2 or 3 times before he left school. Quite frankly, i didn't ever care if he transferred, because he sucked anyway. Funny thing though, even though he had a lousy relationship with the team, he had a good relationship with the coaching staff, probably because my coach was high discipline and took the time to call him on the carpet. Most of the time he'd apologize and behave himself for a good long while. If he'd been a walk-on i would have cut him. You need to be careful of that with scholarship players though.
Side note: ALWAYS pay attention to the notes your assistant gathers from their coaches before offering scholarships. Attitude problems, and laziness usually cut them from my list. Injury proneness usually does too, but occasionally you'll get a really talented player that's not being highly recruited because of that reason, and you can snag him at a school where he'd normally be out of your reach. It sometimes is worth that gamble in hopes you get enough playing time out of him that he'll have an impact. It would help if DDS:CB had medical redshirts.