ignats75 wrote:Senior starters who are candidates for all conference aren't skedaddling over the fear of some incoming frosh. Now a sophomore or junior who isn't a A Plus player? yes. But not a star. The backup PG who averaged 14-16 min/game behind a graduated senior isn't going to transfer either over an incoming frosh unless that's LeBron coming in. I don't have a problem with realistic transfers, I just think the logic needs to be tweaked.
Would you be happier if I changed the reason to he just felt like transferring in the game or he's transferring for personal reasons? Why did Caleb Love transfer? Why did Hunter Dickinson transfer? LJ Cryer? Those guys aren't like a Dalton Knecht situation where he moved from No Colorado to a bigger school. Those guys left UNC, Michigan and Baylor and were all super successful in their roles and their roles were not going to be in danger.
With the way its working now I am at least trying to provide a reason based on an action that took place - in this case perhaps bringing in a good freshman - rather than just making up a random or unexplainable reason to replicate things like Love, Dickinson, Cryer etc... If you bring in a legit good freshman he's got to play or else he's going to transfer. So if he plays then it means the other guy is going to play less probably. Maybe he's not afraid of giving up the starting job but why share some of his minutes? Also you're saying a "star". Even a 4.5 star player (if that rating is accurate) is not really a "star". He's a very good college player but he's not a star and certainly not a star on the level of a Zion Williamson or something like that. He's just a good college player. There's also like 40-50 5 star players in the league usually so while you mention a guy who could possibly be an all-conference guy not being afraid unless LeBron is coming in I would beg to differ - you're talking about players who might be all-conference - all-conference in the Big 12 this year was Jamal Shead, Tamin Lipsey, Hunter Dickinson, Kevin McCullar Jr and Dylan Disu
Hunter Dickinson was also all conference in the big ten before transferring out so literally the type of guy you're talking about did exactly what your player did being a highly thought of player winning all-conference in a power conference.
This is the reality of the portal. Players who should not transfer do transfer which is why again I have left the old way in so that you can play without that sort of thing if you liked college basketball better when hardly anyone transferred or they basically only transferred when there were serious relationship problems or didn't get any playing time. But it has to be replicated somehow and it is not illogical for the players you mentioned to transfer. Like I said, I can change the reason you are shown - I can make it totally random and make up reasons. In the future once NIL gets sorted out it will probably become straight up another school paid him more (I could imply that in the game now and make it like a thing where the collectives are operating in the background) - there can be any number of reasons for it to happen but I disagree with the premise that it is illogical those players should transfer for any reason because it is 1000% happening in the real world.