Moved into the venting thread.

And from reading your post the only game change you want is "my fighters need to be better".

Other coaches can get fighters to 4*, so obviously the game allows it, you just have fighters who are bad trainers/learners.

And I have no idea where this "need 4* to compete at EFC level" comes from.

I present Patrick Turner, EFC HW champ about a week ago:

http://www.mmarmy.com/fighter_display.php?id=236070

While, as you can see, he finally hit 4* Sambo, that was literally about two resets before he retired. He'd won the EFC title and been competative at the top level back with 3.5* in Sambo and Strength. I "wasted" a good two dozen or so resets to get his Sambo to 4*.

Instead of focusing almost entirely on on Sambo/Strength, how about build their other supporting stats or develop a switch to beat those who can out-PL you?