If I may put forward my 2 cents on the issue.
I disagree with the point that our system has not developed well from the grassroots. Every season, I see familiar names within the MBBA scouring the TL for potential local draftees. How many young players with MVP, HoF or ATG go on the Transfer List and remain undeveloped? In the past couple of seasons, zero. Not one. Every single player with good potential are snapped up on the TL and trained. However, why are there these good potential players that go untrained? The answer is they never made it to the TL.
The problem we are grappling now isn't having an undeveloped youth system, but rather too little active players. Our country gets one, maybe 2, great draftees every season. The problem? They usually go to inactive players, or to players who just hang on to them not knowing what to do. What do you do when every mail you send to them remains unreplied and the weeks slip by as you watch another player go down the drain. Quite frankly, there's nothing we can do. One example is my current trainee, who wasted half a season of training as an 18 year old because his manager was inactive. Our U21 manager put him on the NT, and once the owner went bot, I plucked him from the TL for a hefty price.
Our only solution is to increase our user base. Get more active managers in who are willing to row the boat. Expand the pool of people who are drafting players and training them.
However, this is more into the U21 manager's territory than the NT. Now, on to the job of NT manager.
As a potential manager of the NT which only fully developed players qualify, I have only one yardstick which to convince me that you are the man to do the job. Anything else is a bonus. And that is the ability to get the most out of whatever squad you have.
My only request, is show me a match in which you have played in against preferably superior opposition in which you used tactics to maximum effect.