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my vote is empthatically for jward.

we definitely need some new energy in the community

With all due respect if you are voting for a mediocre manager over our current guy just for new energy its a mistake. New energy is great if it has the focus of talent. I don't see a 12-10 finish in D.II as something that stirs me.

the U21 club and national team are all about success. Energizing the community? This is an internet game not a block party. You play because you want to, if you are going to be lethargic and not give a crap someone on the other end of the screen isnt going to motivate you. The U21 team and National Team are both coming off of successful seasons. They have done the best with what they have but there is only so much they can do. If people aren't motivated to train up their US draft picks after the current rule changes regarding merchandising money there is certainly no way a couple of lines in the forums will take care of it. With this job, the proof is in the pudding so to speak, and as I have already said misguided energy doesn't get the job done.

My question for all the candidates:

The U21 team seems to be losing ground on several other nations. What is the leading factor for this?

Also, explain at least one method you will use to increase US interest about the U21 team.

Thanks and good luck...

FatCurry's chat would have to be closed off somehow, it's currently open to all nations.

1) Joe Jones is a very nice player for this cycle. To think we didn't have him in the db until very recently, when his trainer sent me a BB-mail.

From cursory glances at the DB, it looks to me like the database has a very low number of players with "low" potential (aka not-gold). As such, I'd expect that it would miss good U21 candidates who were single-position trained but had star or allstar potential, because they don't look like stellar trainees.

From messing with the salary calculator linked on the forums, and working off of the estimated potential caps on the forums, I seriously believe that for guards, it's quite possible to single position train for 4 seasons and just barely cap out a star-potential player at the end of the 4th year (assuming rounded training but no real secondary training). If someone is training for non-guard skills (ID/rebounding, etc), they might even be able to get a few extra pops before the player hits 35-40k salary.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I think that the U21 team could benefit from increasing the focus on identifying and shepherding star/allstar potential good 18 year olds, and owners can benefit from it under the current market conditions. Being a guard trainer, I haven't really looked at what the "potential cutoff" for center-types and 4 years of 1-pos training is, but maybe someone can do a little playing around with that?