It doesn’t feel the same

[AJW 2,302]

One year ago I was a year younger than I am now, let that sink in.

 

One year ago I was actually still GMing the Houston Bulls in the VHLM. The season was S92, I just got back into GMing in the VHLM after two seasons away. I will never take the credit for the season my team had, I won the GM award in S92 but seriously that wasn’t all because of me. What actually happened was a massive swarm of active players who joined my team, one being @LucyXpher who I am now proud to work with in Malmo. That season really was something special with all the conversations we had in Houston’s locker room, all the people who were actively part of everything and anything… I even had many other members, including some VHL GMs, requesting for access to join Houston’s private locker room just so they could see all the madness that was going on.

 

The point I’m getting at is that I have never felt the same feeling of S92 since then. The VHL S93 draft class was loaded with talent and I clearly remember the stream announcers saying that Houston was the team to draft from. Why are we not giving the same opportunity to current teams? Why has every VHL draft after the top 10 been “shit” and why has every 3rd or 4th round pick been seen as a joke to the VHL? I understand that we just had a donation drive which more than likely took away most of the league’s funds back in December, but why has it been A WHOLE YEAR since a draft class has been so promising as the S93 draft class was?!

 

I love this league, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t see any true growth in the past seasons. I see the same faces everyday and when a new one with true potential walks in it’s pretty rare to me. I joined the SHL again recently and their league is thriving with new members… every, single, draft. Their upcoming draft is absolutely loaded with talent, my current SHL GM has a full spreadsheet of the first three rounds having promising prospects.

 

I am a true believer in that YouTube is the way, I also know that you can’t have a YouTube recruitment drive every season or else the numbers get skewed, and it’s also pricey. Why has it been so many seasons since we have done a recruitment drive revolved around YouTube? Why is it that @Banackock works his tail off just to keep recruitment alive? I’ve seen many posts of him almost begging for help for a 6 TPE job!! Why is there no true effort from the big names above to run a fully functioning recruitment team? 
 

I don’t have any answers and I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, maybe I’m completely wrong about this! What I hope is to see this league keep on growing, but right now it doesn’t look that way to me.

[Banackock 8,338]

We need to give away pizza as a recruitment perk. Once a season, buy a staff member pizza. 
 

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[Scurvy 1,690]

5 hours ago, AJW said:

am a true believer in that YouTube is the way

I joined as a result of YouTube.  I agree.  I joined cuz of Youtube clip, stayed cuz I had a great VHLM GM who guided me through.  Great article 

[Beketov 9,227]

6 hours ago, AJW said:

Why has it been so many seasons since we have done a recruitment drive revolved around YouTube?

They had high prices to start and they have only gone up. Combine that with the holiday season where our budgets end up tighter because we have all the charity work and giveaways and you end up with a situation where the cash flow just isn’t there.

[Pifferfish 746]

i have a solution, add microtransactions to the vhl... use those to fund YT ads, done... dont ask me what these microtransactions earn you, idfk, im not the make the idea good guy... im the come up with an outline guy.

 

[BOOM 8,980]

I offered to recruit via pornhub, but noooooo. 

[AJW 2,302]

Idk if people are still reading this but I reached out to @Beketov and he gave me a great response as to why

 

YouTube ads are WAY more expensive than what I thought they were