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Target: Chicago Goats Head Coach
Reward: $50,000,000

Crimes Committed Against Humanity:

During the most recent match against a bot-controlled League VI opponent for the national tournament, Head Coach was under specific orders to strictly adhere to the depth chart as provided to him per Chicago Goats Upper Management. Nine players were shipped, uniforms pre-applied, jersey numbers pre-selected. All that needed to be done was to look at the depth chart that came delivered in the packing slip.

PG: Song Khoi/Matthew Lind
SG: Teddy Titus/Niko Ovaska
SF: Fiorindo Bodale/Fletcher Blackmon
PF: Sidre Castrofeito/Tullio Favaretto
C: Robert Ocampo/Robert Ocampo

Robert Ocampo is declared to be the victim in this assignment. The Chicago Goats' top trainee, the Goats have been following a rigid training plan this season to ensure he receives his dedicated minutes with the goal of not sacraficing league matchups in the process all in the name of training. Due to the nature of this week's matchup, it was deemed the Goats should focus on their starters in the league matches while resting them against the inferior opponent they would no doubt be victorious against for the bonus of $50,000. Robert Ocampo had already received 9 minutes playing at the Small Forward position earlier in the week and his concentration for this matchup would be the full 48 minutes needed so the Chicago Goats could focus their attention on training Inside Defense for the 5 spot. For some unknown reason other than destroying their opponent, the Chicago Goats Head Coach, had decided that after 47 minutes of playing time, Ocampo needed to take a break. Therefore, Chicago Goats Brass has decided to take the $50,000 earned from winning this worthless match and multiply it by 1,000 to offer up as a reward for Chicago Goats Head Coach's head. The only requisites are that the head be stuffed and mounted so the Front Office Head Honcho can display it above his $450,000 mahogany/oak Presidential desk that would make even the Queen of England turn red with envy.



//Signed//

The Family


P.S. It would be wise to bring his head with his mouth open wide enough to stuff an apple in between his teeth.
Edited to remove profanity.
No proanity please.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 8/22/2011 12:06:16 AM

Why didn't you put him as starter, backup and reserve? Still, 47 mins is almost all of training, give your coach another chance ;)

I have had this disgusting thing happen to me so many times it drives me crazy. After your coach is killed can you kill mine too?

Had the same issue, except my trainee got subbed out after 45 minutes. If this was the only frustrating thing my coach did, I wouldn't have a problem with him though.

It happened to my trainee too (already sold) the first week. It's always an "awww sh*t!" moment but realizing it happens to everybody else makes me feel less bad.

yeah, I agree. That's why I chose the funny response to this situation over actually getting pissed, lol. I saw that 47 minutes and I'm like WTF!! I wouldn't have been so disturbed by his choice had I put Ocampo in at PF instead of SF in the league matchup. That would have at least allowed me the opportunity to switch the training over to PF/C instead of single-pos training. I'm pretty sure he'll receive good training from this though he might not see an actual pop until next week. I'm going to have to rethink about playing him as a reserve C for the other two matchups next week though so I can possibly receive some minutes.

Apparently the coach had decided to put Sidre Castrofeito in for the final minute at C. Sidre was the starting PF and had been subbed out in favor of Favaretto with the blowout and despite strict orders that he only play PF, the coach put him in at C for that 1 minute of action, leaving Ocampo short by 1 minute for his required 48 to receive full training, lol. That bastard.

Can we get a group discount? Another 36 minute game for one of my trainees. It's a blowout and he's worse than the sub. The goal is not to run up the score further.

I've had this problem in the past, though not as much recently just because I can march my trainees into league games at this point. My solution was basically just to minimize how much the coach can screw up by putting as few players as possible in. From a quick look at your roster and weekly minutes, it looks like most of the guys in that game could've stayed in longer or are terrible. In the future if you're going to blow out your opponent, I'd take Lind, Blackmon and Favaretto out of the lineup entirely and plan on trotting Ocampo, Castrofeito, Khoi and Bodine out for all 48 minutes. For game shape purposes, maybe rotate Ovaska and Titus at the SG spot, but if you run 6 deep, I think A) you can target 70 game minutes per week for your better players and B) not have to worry about getting your worthwhile trainees subbed out at the last minute.

I hope that makes sense. It's worked for me in the past, but again, its your team.

Hey man, I appreciate the training tips. It was a fluke for whatever reason, lol. I have to figure something out, that's for sure. Matthew Craven is kind of screwing up his training this season as he's fouled out twice this season. I put Ocampo in, as he's my primary trainee, as a the full 48-minute starter for the last game of the training week. I should have just gotten him his minutes early on so as not to worry about falling short. I put too much emphasis on trying to win two league games that I have no business winning when you compare my roster to that of the rest of the teams in my league. If it were not for the two or three teams that are weaker than me, my Goats are relegation material. With my focus being on training as it is, I failed to do my part in maintaining my priorties of 1. Ocampo, 2. Craven, 3. Radeka, 4. Wiles.

This week, I'm putting Ocampo in as the starter for the 2nd game, letting Craven come off the bench. Then, depending on what Ocampo needs, he might start again for the cup matchup.