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Ok ill reply to all 3 of you in this post.

@scorcher

I have actually been noticing Canadas numbers going up during this season. We were sitting at around 420-430 the past couple season and now we are hitting as high as 472 and 450 on Mondays(when teams go bot), but I would agree in a sense that Canadas community activity on the forums and such has been dropping. This has something to do with newer teams taking the reigns from the older teams though. We just need to get a better scouting system going(something that is being started and that you were(and can be) a part of) so that the new teams that get a young prospect can be accounted for right away and we can try and keep their interest, lead them to the forums and voila! We have seen some good activity though when the right conversation arises. scorcher you would be a fine candidate and I welcome anyone to run in any election and participate in the debate as a healthy debate and election is always best.

@ Mr. Burns

Thanks for the kind words and I would agree with you. Anyone can and should run if they feel they are good for the country. I have no problems with scorcher and I will nominte him just so we can have a nice election go on.

@ GM-beanerz

I think you are pretty close to a slam dunk victor in the NT elections. If zmtomako doesnt run like he says, RiP stays busy, and Mogul doesnt decide that he wants to come out of nowhere and run the NT, you shouldnt have too much of a problem winning the NT election. That being said I would still want as many legitimate candidates as possible in any election. I wish damian13ster would run against you. That would be fun to. beanerz vs damian13ster vs scorcher. That would be a great debate!

Thanks for the kind words. Barring and major RL changes or something on BB that causes Canada to hate me ill run again :P The results are getting better this season! As I dont think anyone would have done anything differently than what I have done so far.

I would agree that the NT position is probably easier to start with as it requires less constant scouting once a depth chart has been made(thanks zmtomako) as opposed to U21 where you have 100 new players every season plus you still have to scout 19-21 yos with the 18 year olds. NT manager is by no means easy, but easier I would say.

Overall: Anyone can and should run for either position. So go for it scorcher, even if you dont get the 7 nominations you are looking for, prove yourself with a great speech writeup and debate(during the election of course).

I might actually try and run for NT position in next season. In nearest future, it is the term during which I will have the most time (hopefully enough to be successful), although I believe that Beanerz will most likely be chosen and is probably the best candidate.

I appreciate the positive feedback. I will not be running for the positions if BBallin and Beanerz are going to run as i believe they are currently the best suited. If by chance that one of them does not run in the election i hope that i could fill that void. The national team may be easier for me, but like i said if Beanerz is interested i will throw my support behind him right away.

Also, BBallin i would like to continue scouting. I just need to take care of some personal complications first. I should be ready for full commitment by around August 10th. When school starts however, i may not be readily available but i will do my best.

I appreciate the positive feedback. I will not be running for the positions if BBallin and Beanerz are going to run as i believe they are currently the best suited. If by chance that one of them does not run in the election i hope that i could fill that void. The national team may be easier for me, but like i said if Beanerz is interested i will throw my support behind him right away.

Good to know that Canada has someone to fallback on then.

Also, BBallin i would like to continue scouting. I just need to take care of some personal complications first. I should be ready for full commitment by around August 10th. When school starts however, i may not be readily available but i will do my best.

I can give you a small batch of the Season 21 18 year olds so you can help ploije :)

I'd be interested to see if we can start organizing to have a more competitive team 5+ seasons down (which is when I hope Sammons would be a ~$300k Center with good secondaries... if we have a decent team). It'd be nice if someone can start doing some long-term planning as far as players (and it doesn't necessarily have to be the NT manager). It looks like we have a stable of elite 25y/o guards on the NT, but most of the NT forwards are old, and I only really see matthew bradshaw as a SF hopeful and Denny Hall as a PF hopeful. Are there any other really good forwards going to be around in 5 seasons? (That are ideally on good teams that would be able to afford them.) And having more than 1 center would be nice, as well as keeping all the guards with good managers.

Last edited by Fresh24 at 7/24/2012 10:20:22 PM

This is something that would require long term planning and a lot of work/dedication. Building the perfect U21 and then the perfect NT would be difficult, but possible. People would need money to buy trainees to suit the needs, or luck to draft the player that suits the needs. People would need space fo training and the willingness to put training ahead of success in some instances. It can be done. 3 trainees per manager and 4 dedicated managers can have 12 players. If we got say 10 managers with high level trainers, high potential trainees and dedication to training, just imagine the type of U21 and NT we could build. I tihnk for this to occur we will also need co-operation and lots of discussion to figure everything out which would require people to register, check and post regularily on the offsite forum.

Speaking of forwards, we have Garvi who is 20, but only superstar potential. I am pretty sure Trotter from last season had superstar potential and a level 7 trainer and he was being trained as a SF. Worley is coming up, as is Arsenault and Lachance. The depth chart is on the offsite if someone registered.. ;) or checked :P

I actually would really like to take part in that project. Not really sure that Bradshaw can be a NT-caliber SF but I will do my best to put him in that position as inside-oriented SF. I think I can also announce here that I am looking for top-notch Canadian trainee (18-19yo) and great 22-24 year old player that just needs finishing touches to his training and would be able to start in Naismith.

maybe this is something we should start discussing and planning on the offsite. This wil probably need a season to plan at least. Figuring out the types of players we want, who is training what, when to start. Interesting idea. Anyone else think we should pursue this?

I made a brief attempt to get something going for a U21 season, but it was too hastey and the U21 is difficult because you need a lot more trainees involved just due to the possibility of injuries, etc. and ideally set up for back-to-back seasons, but I'd still be game for setting up for U21 too if we have enough teams. And instead of having a team take on 3 trainees, it'd be easier on teams to take on 1-2 trainees and still be competitive, although we'd need a couple more teams involved. We're going to need our teams with high salary NT players having large arenas and be in Div2/Naismith (or expect to be there a few seasons from now).

Yeah, I'll join the off-site and we can talk about this more.

I think a start would be recruiting Canadian owners to particiapate in the training process. Then helping them plan short term and long term goals for the players that they train.

Another thing I'd like to see is more owners that had great careers but then lose a bit of interest using their huge financial resources for training potential NT players. I know that there are at least a couple of guys like this that played Naismith in the past, and while they continue to log into the site in order to avoid going BOT, they're not really playing the game. It would be nice to see them at least focus on something like this.

Maybe I shouldn't have much of an opinion on this as I haven't been involved in the training of Canadian players since I joined the site but that will change in this off-season.

Last edited by Beener not Beanerz at 7/25/2012 7:44:48 AM

I made a brief attempt to get something going for a U21 season

Yes I remember this, but as you said it wasn't planned out properly and no one was really aware of what was going on.

U21 is harder because you have a shorter time frame so nothing can go wrong if you want to be successful, but it is still possible.

Obviously just 1 or 2 trainees on teams would be preferred, but if the managers dont step up it may become necessary for someone to carry three :)

I think most of the teams on the offsite are in div II, Naismith or will be soon so thats no problem!