(S22) - PT3 - Boom or Bust

[iseedoug]

The first big bust that comes to mind for me has to be S12 TE Ronnie Williams. And he comes to mind as a bust because he is my IRL brother, who I recruited after successfully recruiting my wife @mabb two seasons earlier. So, I thought, hey I got my wife to join and make a super successful player and member of the community, and she doesn’t even play Madden with me like my brother does. So, I call up my brother, try to describe this crazy concept of simulation leagues, and he joins. I walk him through how to update and get TPE, etc. He gets his first update in. Cool, things are moving. Based on my thought that he would keep this up, @nunccoepi and I draft him pretty late in the S11 DSFL draft thinking we got a steal in a rare DSFL position at that time. If I remember correctly, he fell because he created sometime in the middle of the draft, or right before it started (can’t remember exactly), but no one had a chance to recruit him or talk to him. He does a few more updates, but always seems to need me to remind him about TPE chances, guide him through things, etc. I am thinking it has to stick soon. He gets to 124 TPE, works okay in the DSFL where everyone is low TPE. That season would become nunc and I’s first Ultimini loss after 3 seasons of winning it in a row. Ronnie would get 1 reception for 11 yards in the big game. Future Hawks All-Star and now future HOFer Maddox torched us as a member of the Pythons in that game.

Fast forward, the Sabercats go ahead and draft Ronnie in the S12 NSFL draft thinking, "hey he is iseedoug’s brother, let's take a shot" (and since I was in the war room, I also was saying I think he is going to become more active). And he never updated again. Turns out it's too tedious for him. Ronnie Williams ends up playing 1, maybe 2 seasons as a filler guy on SJS, then gets cut. And that is it. The big bust on my recruitment record.

Now, in both drafts he was picked pretty late, but man, still a bust.

(Nunc's story about Saul playing us was even a worse bust for us).