Starting a TCY career in the Solecismic Eight.

[JW]

So I decided to do something different this football season and set myself up to coach a Solecismic Eight team, something I've never tried before. I made myself coach of the Carthage State Teachers College Lions (I moved San Antonio to Carthage) in the Texas Eight. My first game is at Georgia, and I lose 93-0. Damn. What an introduction to the Solecismic Eight. I went 2-9 my first season, going 2-5 in conference play and nearly winning a couple of the other conference games. But I did get some fair players in recruiting including at the last minute a really highly rated and smart quarterback from Dallas with a lousy attitude. I focused on distance, and I know I gave myself a little advantage by setting the conference in Texas. This will be really interesting.

[wbatl1]

I too just started a Sol 8 career, and am really enjoying it...

[Vince]

I've found the Solecismic 8 too easy. You get 7 patsies a year, almost guaranteed, and it's far too easy to improve your prestige by winning those games. Recruiting then comes easier, and at that point it's simply a "rich-get-richer" scenario.

[JW]

Originally Posted by Vince

I've found the Solecismic 8 too easy. You get 7 patsies a year, almost guaranteed, and it's far too easy to improve your prestige by winning those games. Recruiting then comes easier, and at that point it's simply a "rich-get-richer" scenario.

Interesting. I'll see if that holds true for me, since I tend to play kind of casually and not manage things as closely as some players. But what you say makes sense to me.

[-Mojo Jojo-]

Originally Posted by Vince

I've found the Solecismic 8 too easy. You get 7 patsies a year, almost guaranteed, and it's far too easy to improve your prestige by winning those games. Recruiting then comes easier, and at that point it's simply a "rich-get-richer" scenario.

I've always thought that conference prestige needs to be a bigger ranking and recruiting factor in TCY for exactly this reason. It is way too easy to make an SCE team an annual national champ contender. I know it's not the NCAA, yadda yadda, but I'd prefer to see the SCE champ ranked 15-25 (or less) at the end of the season rather than in the top 5.

[wbatl1]

Originally Posted by Vince

I've found the Solecismic 8 too easy. You get 7 patsies a year, almost guaranteed, and it's far too easy to improve your prestige by winning those games. Recruiting then comes easier, and at that point it's simply a "rich-get-richer" scenario.

It certaintly is not the hardest challenge to be created, but I generally put the league in Alaska, Hawaii, or Maine and then have much less sucess distance recruiting, which makes things much, much harder. It probably will only take me 10 years, though, until I start winning so much that I get bored. At this point, however, 10 seasons is about the max I play at a time with TCY, so it works out well.