tgould, yeah I know what you mean. Used to be you look at a kid who has the ratings you want, but when you see he has five red ratings and only one green (stamina, usually) you wonder what the point is.
That's the other huge problem with potential I forgot to mention - that it removes much of the real-life guesswork that goes into recruiting. When you know that red means, "forget it" and when you can look and see that they will not improve in three, four, five categories, you eliminate a ton of recruits you would have gone after prior to the potential nonsense. Takes much of the fun out of it. Plus - Then you have the same number of schools going after a much smaller group of recruits.