6) The time has finally come where I feel myself being more active in the league. So for ultimus week I’ve decided to talk about my reinvigorated interest and how I’ve gotten to this new point in my ISFL career. For a great deal of time I was really debating on whether or not I really wanted to stick around. Of course that indecisiveness has in turn made my player far worse than he could be. But after recent events I think it’s safe to say I’m willing to go above and beyond anything I’ve done previously. The final deciding factor for me I think was finally getting into a war room and being able to do more than just watch a dot play fake football.
Of course not long after I got into the war room the team, how would you say it? Imploded. There were a lot of moving parts behind the scenes I didn’t know about, and for a lot of the process I felt like I was in the dark. It was a tough time for me personally, but after things settled down, and we got our new GMs I became more and more excited for the future. My first worry with new GMs was that I’d no longer be a part of the war room, and my quest to start over would be halted abruptly. However, with the exodus that happened, by sheer luck I was the only one in the war room from before the new GMs and the interim GMs. Of course not by a huge margin, either way I was happy to still be a part of the rebuild.
There was a lot of work to be done with the change of power. And a lot of uncertainty after losing so many assets right away. I thought for sure at least someone would stick around but I was proven wrong almost immediately. The first step of course came down to identifying exactly what the problems were, which we could fix immediately, and which we could hold off on until we get a foundation set. It didn’t take long for us to realize one of our most immediate concerns was becoming a more active locker room. This played heavily into our scouting strategy. We wanted to bring in users who we thought could elevate not only our team but bring our locker room to a point where prospects in the future would drop the negative stigma around the team and want to come here.
We pretty unanimously agree on our top two picks being infinite and BigRed. We felt they would be a massive help to switch gears and send this team in the right direction. My contributions to this team finally came in when we finally began scouting as I had to do everything I could to find people I thought could help us become more active and inviting to new users. I really enjoyed the scouting process. At least my version of scouting which involved doing everything I could to predict the kinds of users other teams would be looking for, as well as identifying people that could fall to the later rounds and still hold substantial value. I think it’s fair to say now that the draft is completed that we accomplished that with flying colors.
Of course after the draft ended things quieted down for about a week and it became time again to look towards the future. There are still some things we need to work on in order for the team to be in the best shape it can possibly be. However I think we’ve made moves to put us by far and away further along the path to success than a lot of people were expecting. Now that the big part is over and we have a new foundation to build on I’m incredibly excited to begin working on the little things. I think this team has an incredibly promising future and I’m very hopeful to be a part of it for as long as possible.
Of course there's still a lot of time between now and the kickoff of season 28, and I’m sure we’ll find more things to work on. I have a great deal of things I’d like to get done personally for this team, I’m hopeful they can be done. I think we’re going to be perennial underdogs for a while, at least until I hit regression in season 32. It’s a shame not everyone is aware of the amazing work that’s been put into this franchise so far, and all the plans that will be taking place in the future. While I am saddened we couldn’t draft everybody we wanted to, I am really happy with who we’ve been able to bring in, and I think by this time next season the team will be thought of much differently.
Of course not long after I got into the war room the team, how would you say it? Imploded. There were a lot of moving parts behind the scenes I didn’t know about, and for a lot of the process I felt like I was in the dark. It was a tough time for me personally, but after things settled down, and we got our new GMs I became more and more excited for the future. My first worry with new GMs was that I’d no longer be a part of the war room, and my quest to start over would be halted abruptly. However, with the exodus that happened, by sheer luck I was the only one in the war room from before the new GMs and the interim GMs. Of course not by a huge margin, either way I was happy to still be a part of the rebuild.
There was a lot of work to be done with the change of power. And a lot of uncertainty after losing so many assets right away. I thought for sure at least someone would stick around but I was proven wrong almost immediately. The first step of course came down to identifying exactly what the problems were, which we could fix immediately, and which we could hold off on until we get a foundation set. It didn’t take long for us to realize one of our most immediate concerns was becoming a more active locker room. This played heavily into our scouting strategy. We wanted to bring in users who we thought could elevate not only our team but bring our locker room to a point where prospects in the future would drop the negative stigma around the team and want to come here.
We pretty unanimously agree on our top two picks being infinite and BigRed. We felt they would be a massive help to switch gears and send this team in the right direction. My contributions to this team finally came in when we finally began scouting as I had to do everything I could to find people I thought could help us become more active and inviting to new users. I really enjoyed the scouting process. At least my version of scouting which involved doing everything I could to predict the kinds of users other teams would be looking for, as well as identifying people that could fall to the later rounds and still hold substantial value. I think it’s fair to say now that the draft is completed that we accomplished that with flying colors.
Of course after the draft ended things quieted down for about a week and it became time again to look towards the future. There are still some things we need to work on in order for the team to be in the best shape it can possibly be. However I think we’ve made moves to put us by far and away further along the path to success than a lot of people were expecting. Now that the big part is over and we have a new foundation to build on I’m incredibly excited to begin working on the little things. I think this team has an incredibly promising future and I’m very hopeful to be a part of it for as long as possible.
Of course there's still a lot of time between now and the kickoff of season 28, and I’m sure we’ll find more things to work on. I have a great deal of things I’d like to get done personally for this team, I’m hopeful they can be done. I think we’re going to be perennial underdogs for a while, at least until I hit regression in season 32. It’s a shame not everyone is aware of the amazing work that’s been put into this franchise so far, and all the plans that will be taking place in the future. While I am saddened we couldn’t draft everybody we wanted to, I am really happy with who we’ve been able to bring in, and I think by this time next season the team will be thought of much differently.