View Full Version : A Coaching Sim- The Bob Tuggs Journey
So as I am just watching basketball all day here, I decided to dust off FBCB and do another dynasty, but with a twist. My last dynasty I tried being the AD with a bunch of school and just hired and fired coaches.
With this one, I am going to be the coach, however, making minor choices(maybe hiring the assistants and redshirts) and seeing where the career goes.
The Universe is the normal college basketball league this year. Injuries are off, academic suspensions are on, all players stay till graduation, transfers play right away, and there are conference prestige changes but no conference movement. There is only the NCAA Tourney, and the NIT tourney, as I have turned off the other 2. If you want to be big time, you gotta make the big tourneys.
That being said, let's see how Mr. Tuggs does
Bob Tuggs has 0 Division 1 coaching experience. Bob went to Pitt studied economics and was the team manager. When it came time for Bob to graduate, the Pitt coach was able to secure Bob a GA position on a division 3 squad near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania at Grove City College.
While at Grove City, Bob turned into a hell of a recruiter. He was always able to talk his way into and out of anything and the biggest rumor about Bob was that he was the reason the students stopped getting citations for walking on the grass on campus. If he was able to get the President to agree to that and waive that long standing rule, who knows what kind of ride he was going to take in life.
Lets take a look at Bob
While at Grove City Bob was fundamentally schooled in the ways of the zone defense, and the run and gun let it fly style offenses.
Will that ever translate over to big time college athletics? Only time will tell
Bob's smooth talking has secured himself a job at Syracuse as the recruiting coordinator. William Campbell liked what Bob had to say on the interview, and it didn't hurt that the Pitt coach gave him a hell of a recommendation.
With the background now set, let's see how Bob and his 100 in recruiting does in the FBCB Universe.
Syracuse has a young staff which is interesting. With two 20 year olds guiding other 20 year olds, kind of makes you wonder how things will turn out.
The squad is stacked so maybe Bob will land his own Head gig in a few seasons under Campbell
Well that first 2 seasons do not go as planned, as Syracuse loses in the first round of the NIT, and then loses in the first round of the Tourney the second season.
The sophomore class is loaded, but the freshman class isn't that good at all. It might be a while before a head job comes rolling around
The third year the Cuse go 24-9 and lose in the 2nd round of the NCAA tourney. The Freshman class was up to snuff this year as we landed the top kid in NY. Another year with no offers, so Tuggs is hoping the Cuse can go deeper in the tourney to get a look at a mid major head job
Another year finishes, and I am pleasantly surprised. The Cuse make the final 4 and go 34-6.
Tuggs has a coaching level of 2, so I am one level away more than likely from getting a look, but the winning helps.
Tuggs is rated 100 in recruiting, 16 scouting, 4 in offense, and 20 in defense.
William Campbell retires in the offseason as the head coach so not exactly sure what is going to happen here.
I switch back tugs to see if I get a job offer on the head coaching round and an interesting thing happens
Utah Valley is the first school to come a knocking for The Tuggs.
It is an interesting situation because it looks like they do have a decent roster to work with.
I am a little worried about having to replace 5 seniors right off the bat though. If Tuggs strikes out his first year, this career might be over in 4 seasons. That makes me nervous and my gut is telling me to pass.
I look at the Prestige of the WAC an see that Utah valley is a solid third with 36. More than a few behind New Mexico State at 49 and Seattle at 38.
Tuggs does pass on the Utah Valley Job.
I hit the head coach button again and Alcorn State offers up. They are in a terrible situation and I'm not even going to post the roster. Their prestige is a whopping 5.
I hit the head coach button and a job comes up that looks really solid. IPFW wants The Tugg to be the head man on their bench.
They have a solid roster. I like them being in Indiana. Lots of good recruits to be able to snake in on, and their prestige is 43 good for third in the conference.
The past 3 seasons they have made the NIT, NCAA and then back to the NIT. I can see why their head coach was in demand.
I accept the job and immediately start looking to round out my staff.
The Tugg will have his work cut out for him.
I am happy about the staff I was able to round up spending 30 K on each.
None have any coaching experience, but Tugg remembers those days. He hopes the guys are as hungry as he was, and if they are they just might have a shot at this.
I make an error and forget to switch my stuff from all user control to some human stuff, and all 4 of my freshman on the roster redshirt this year. Not exactly good.
That means ill have to redshirt all 4 of my incoming class to balance out, and there is no way its going to simply work out like that. Tuggs doesn't have luck like that.
so..... onwards and upwards
I didn't sign anyone going into TC, so simming all the way to march. Ill take a look at the recruits then
We end up going 18-16, 8-6 in conference.
Not too bad of a coaching start. It certainly could have been much much worse on that front.
Recruiting is 259 in the nation. Good for 2nd to last in the Summit. That couldn't have gone much worse. three 1 star guys and one 2 star guy. Although now that I look at them, I don't mind them. They have their issues, but their strengths are what I would want them to be in so time will tell there.
One guy transferred out which means ill have 2 schoolys to offer out this year. That helps balance things out better, not much but ill take it.
Forgot to switch it again, and once again all 4 freshman redshirt. lol. I gotta make a mental note about doing that.
Didn't sign anyone before TC again this year, so simming to March
We go 16-14 this year and 9-5 in conf. We screwed up and lost in the first round of our conf tourney so our season ends in disappointment.
We did have the conf freshman of the year though, so that's a positive going forward.
Im estatic about our recruiting this year. landed the 157 class in the nation, good for 3rd in the summit. Things might be looking good around here in a few more years.
2 of our freshman last year that got redshirted transfer out. I cant do much complaining about that because they weren't all that great. So ill have to replace them.
The Tugg landed a huge transfer!!!!!!
Big Man Tyler Gattis will have a huge impact on our program going forward, and I can be more excited about him.
Still got one more transfer to go, so Tugg is hopeful there is another Gattis out there
Didn't find another transfer, so we will have 4 schollys to use again this year. Remembered to do the redshirts myself, and we do 2.
Once again didn't sign anyone before TC, so simming to march now
disappointing season as we go 13-15 and 9-5 in conf. 3 guys getting academically suspended did not go over well.
However, we put together a nice tourney run, won 3 in a row and will play in the play in game in the NCAA tourney.
We play a dartmoth team that is 16-13 and I think we might have real shot here.
and boy was I wrong, they blow us out by 20. 73-53. That was a sad showing, however, hoping we can build off of that next season. I doubt I get an offer to move up, as I haven't won enough yet.
Gattis was named freshman of the year. That's 2 years in a row we have had someone win that award
He put up 6.6 points a game and 6.8 rebounds a game.
We had the 204 freshman class. Good for 3rd to last in the conf which is irritating. I thought we were starting to build something.
2 more guys transfer out- and one I wish would have stayed.
Not a good start to the offseason. I do get to upgrade tugg though as I get some bonus points to spend.
I even him out so he has 100 recruiting, 20 scouting, and 20 in both O and D
I land a transfer that is nothing to write home about. I have 1 school this year.
I like my squad, and I think we will have a shot at getting back to the tourney. my starters are all yellow or green. Don't have a lot of depth which is a glaring weakness, but I am hopeful
Vastly wrong with that prediction.
14-17 and 5-9 in conf..... We might be coaching here for a while folks. Thankfully the ad loves tuggy, and we are in the cool stage.
Had the 145 best class. That's good for 3rd in the summit.
Nobody transferred out this year, so I have 4 to give out.
There is no reason why we shouldn't get back to the post season this year. I landed a stud C- and combine him with Gattis we should be very solid inside this year.
We shall see how this works out
Well we did what I thought we would do, only issue is we would have been better if a starter wouldn't have gotten academically suspended.
We go 20-9 and 9-5 in conf. 2nd place for the conf tourney. Tuggs has the fingers crossed. We make the tourney and there might be some offers to move up. Huge few days here.
Sigh...... We win the first game easily, but lose the 2nd game...
We make the NIT as the 8 seed and play the 9th seed Norfolk state. Their guards look like they are gonna be too much for me, so the hope isn't there.
We get beat by 3 and with that the season is over.....
We have ton of awards including schick being conf freshman of the year. and the player of the year in Senior Jon Richardson.
Gattis also makes first team.
korme
01-31-2015, 06:32 PM
Go Tuggs!
Im 83-73 in 5 years here with 1 NCAA an 1 NIT. Not exactly ripping it up, but not sucking either.
Not sure whats going to happen here.
HOLY COW...... just as I was moaning TUGGY pulls in the 33rd best class in the nation, good for 1st in the summit by like 100, including a 7'2 center.
Go Tuggs!
lol thanks korme
I get no offers, still keep all the same assistants, and am looking forward to seeing what happens here at TC. We have 2 offers to hand out this year, and I landed a 200 ranked transfer from Indiana. Nothing great, but will add solid depth this year.
im thinking we can be really good this year. I red shirt 3 of the 4 freshman, and the one I don't redshirt looks to start.
If I can get by with nobody being suspended, I really think its tourney time this year.
Well once again we under perform. Seems like that is what we do all the darn time.
We finish 14-14 and go 9-5 in conf. Good for 2nd. So there is still a chance for the tourney but we weren't as good as I thought we should be.
We have a shot. In the final for the conf tourney playing the 4 seed in south Dakota state and of course we lose 64-61.
just sick.....
We basically waste tyler gattis career. he avered 11 boards and 1.4 blocks this year....... another first team performance.
Just frustrating.
and my 7'2 redshirt freshman transfers. The news just keep getting worse. Tuggy should be ok this year, but I have no idea what to expect. I cant figure out this team.
15-15 and 7-7 in conf. Lost in 2nd round of conf tourney.
2 more guys transfer out, and we are taking a nose dive!
Well we just cant seem to bring it together. We go 24-9 and 9-5 in conf but lose in the title game, and we make the NIT. Lose first round and im sitting here Praying I get an offer to get the hell out of here lol
I get a whopping 2 offers, UNC Greensboro and Sienna.
The UNC offer is by far better so Tuggy is heading south to a warmer climate, better team, better conference and a better budget.
Hopefully this stop turns out better than the last one.
Until next time
I decide to keep all three of my assistants despite the minor budget upgrade I have. Something about loyality. They have been with me since the start and I do not think they are hurting me at the moment. We have 26k to spend recruiting wise since I didn't upgrade any coaches. We were around 15-20 at the last stop, so it should be a decent upgrade in scouting.
I landed a transfer from Ohio state for depth. With 5 seniors leaving me recruiting is going to be tough. That added body will help if recruiting fails miserably.
I redshirt 2 freshman and the season should start.
I have no idea what this team is going to be like, but with 5 seniors I can at least hope we will be in the middle of the pack. The AD wants us to win the conference title, and I don't see that happening anytime soon, so this is the year to take a crack at it.
We go 15-14 and 7-9 in cof and lose in the first game of the conf tourney. I can only hope that recruiting went a lot better
And it sure as heck did. We land the 65th best class in the country which is tops in the Southern Conf. All guys that we landed were from outside the country which I also found interesting.
We had a staff retirement which was odd, so ill be looking for a new coaching assistant. I select a dylon mcclain who has been an assistant at Eastern Kentucky the past 3 seasons. Not much winning going on down there though.
I couldn't offer anyone to transfer as nobody was interested so that will go into the pot and ill be able to sign 3 guys recruiting this period.
I redshirt 4 out of the 5 freshman and hope this will be a good season. :)
15-15 and 6-10 in the conf. Won the first conf tourney game but lost the 2nd. We are extremely young, and me redshirting everybody doesn't help that. Hoping we can continue to hang in there without the AD putting TUGGY on the chopping block.
We are doing really well recruiting however. we landed the 44th class in the nation this year, which was good for first in the southern again. Western Carolina was 2nd with a rank of 77th.
With no transfers this year we have 2 offers to hand out.
another interesting note. 2 out of our 3 freshman are from out of the country again.
I redshirt 2 out of the 3, and hope we can improve on last years record. One of our starters is out on academic probation already, but at least its for the 1st semester rather than the second.
Lets see where the sim takes us this year.
finished up 17-13 and 7-9 in the conf. Lost in the first round of the conf tourney and that once again ends another season.
If we have another good class, we could be in for some good things in the next few years here.
We landed the 110 best class this year which was good for 2nd in the southern. These guys really need to start improving, because the rankings are there and seem to be setting us up for a good run in the conf over the next few years.
No transfers and we have 3 offers to hand out this year.
Our AD is not happy with us, and we are in the danger zone, so this year should be it. Do or Die!!
I redshirt 2 out of the 3 freshman, and just from the color bars alone we should be much better than we have been. Tuggy needs a hell of a season or its back to a lower job.
Heres hoping these guys step up and play like they should.
Well we had a good year. I cant remember the last time I have wrote that.
We finished up 20-8 and 11-5 in the conf, which was good enough for 3rd place.
We won in the first round of the conf tourney, but lost in the second round.
Not sure how the AD is going to feel about this. We do have an invite to the NIT as the 3 seed, so I really would like a decent showing here, to hopefully get me another year with these guys. I do think this is a team that can do some damage in the next few years. Tuggy built them so he should get the chance to keep it rolling
We end up losing in the first round of the NIT. Not the showing that I wanted. So ill hit the end season button and hope for the best.
Well I didn't get fired, but im still in danger.
Chatonnoga offers me their job, and I decline. But this is where it gets really interesting for the Bob Tuggs story
Virginia
Portland
San Jose State
Purdue
Pacific
New Mexico
George Mason
Fresno State
Drake
Davidson
That is the list of teams that want TUGGY to be their next head coach. Im gonna weed through the immediate No's first and then we can go from there.
Virginia- Keeping them on the list at the moment. They aren't built for the future, have a decent junior and senior classes but that's it. AD wants them to make a tournament which is a huge stretch. Leaning towards no, but the allure of the ACC is always there.
San Joese- no
Portland- no
Purdue- Entire roster sucks, but the AD just wants to avoid last place. not sure but staying on the list.
Pacific- Hasn't been below 18 wins in the last 5 years. Strong roster, AD wants to win the conference title, but their freshman class is very weak. Being in CALI is appealing recruiting wise. Keeping them on the list.
New Mexico- Very interesting history. Never been below 16 wins. Historically a good program, that has trouble going over the hump. Won the NIT last year. AD wants to win the conf title. Staying on the list.
George Mason- ok roster- Ad wants them to play in the post season. Stretch there. Not sure how I feel about them. Leaning towards no.
Fresno State- Team that has sucked the worst historically. But has the best roster and they are primed for the future. Very interesting choice. Staying on the list. AD wants them to avoid last place in conf.
Drake- No
Davidson- Ok roster. Has some nice freshman. Ad wants to win the conf. Not sure. Keeping them on here, but leaning towards no.
Ball State- No
I cut
George Mason and Davidson
That leaves 5 programs on the list
Virginia, Purdue, Pacific, New Mexico, Fresno State
Virginia
Budget of 521,625
AD wants post season
Freshman class of 127
Prest is a 56
ACC
Roster is below
Purdue
Budget of 571,437
Freshman class of 171
In the BIG
Prest is a 62
AD wants to avoid last place
Roster is below
Pacific
budget of 471,250
Prest is 59
They are in the West Coast conf
Freshman class was 41
AD wants to compete for conf title
Roster
New Mexico
Budget is 415,000
Prestige is 64
Freshman class was 133
They are in the Mountain West
Roster
Fresno State
Budget is 353.525
Prest is 38
They are in the Mountain West
Ad wants to avoid last place
Their freshman class was 162
Their roster
Then last but not least is my current Gig
UNC Greensboro
Budget 276,437
Prest is 43
AD wants me to win the conf title and my job is in the danger zone
Roster is
Not sure what im gonna do.
Gonna think on it for a bit. do some other stuff and ill continue at some point
Izulde
02-01-2015, 12:45 PM
I'd go Fresno State.
korme
02-01-2015, 02:16 PM
Virginia
britrock88
02-01-2015, 02:28 PM
Purdue
Tuggs ends up taking the Purdue job. The Fresno State job was prob the safer bet, and should be good next year, but hopefully we can get the time to turn this thing around at a school in a big time conf.
Tuggy has some big choices up now with a new staff. His old staff has followed him for each job he has gone. All loyal and true. However he knows they cant hang with the big boys and needs to upgrade in order to be able to survive at the new level.
He fires the lead scout first and the recruiting coordinator will be next depending on the money situation.
Tuggs ends up replacing all three assistants
Gillium comes over from BYU and comes off of back to back sweet 16 trips. Hoping he can bring that recruiting prowless with him.
Sepulveda comes from Nebraska where he has been for the past 6 years. Didn't have a lot of success over there, but isn't costing me a ton for his rating, so hopefully he can improve on tuggys staff
Irvin comes from Notre Dame where he was on some winning teams but the Irish have fallen down lately. I like how much he is costing tuggy, very budget friendly, however he isn't the long term solution in that position. Tuggy needs better.
im hoping by skimping on money with the coaching staff, tuggy and his assistants can bring in some diamond in the rough guys and we can slowly build up this cruddy roster up. The wider the net of recruits the better the chance of getting ok to decent guys. Not what Purdue has been used to.
tuggy tried to get 2 tranfers but they decided to go elsewhere. We are going to use those 2 schollys to go after freshman and bump the class up to 4 new guys coming in this year.
As far as expectations. We have none. I just hope to not finish last this year in the BIG. It would be nice to start out on the right foot with the AD
HAAAAAAAA
We go 7-24 and 2-16 in the conf and end the season on a 10 game losing streak. All good for last place. Sigh... Ohh well right.
We have a junior PF who was selected 2nd team all conf.
Going for small victories here.
We do however have a huge bright spot, and it looks like the money saved on the coaching staff has paid off on the recruiting trail. The 23rd best class in the nation and 3rd best in the Big 10 is a huge step in the correct direction.
Tuggy is hopeful and excited to get on the trail for next year
We only have 1 scholly to offer this season.
We balance our roster out by redshirting 2 freshman.
Here is a look at what we look like this year.
Not expecting much this year, but I do expect to win a bit more than we did last year. 2 wins in the BIG just wont due. Hoping for 6-8 wins this year in the BIG and another good freshman.
Another terrible season. We go 7-24 and 3-15 in the BIG. We finish up the season just like last year, on a 10 game losing streak.
Having Jeff Mckeen miss the 2nd half of the season didn't help. Kid needs to get to study halls more!
C- Thaddus Reeve makes the Freshman team. He averaged 8 boards a game this year.
We get a good freshman in Robbin Redman. Ranked 222 but he will be much better than that.
Freaking Camiello transfers out. He was a nice get in our class last year who I redshirted. That is really really going to hurt this rebuild. Tuggy is beyond pissed.
We have 5 schollys to give this year as there was no transfers out there that would have helped us. This imbalance will catch up to us pretty quickly.
Thinking that this wont be a good year again. I see the CPU starting 2 sophmores and potentially a freshman...... So ya.... should be another long long year im guessing.
We finish 10-22 and 4-14 in the conf. Another last place finish. I'm sure the ad is going to start getting frustrated with me. He only gave the previous coach 4 years before canning him so I don't think tuggy has a lot of wiggle room here. this freshman class is going to be key here
Well Tuggy is really trying out there working hard for these recruits.
#26 in the nation . That's good for 5th in the BIG though. Goodness. 2 Big 10 teams in the top 5 and 3 teams in the top 12. Ya this conf is rough.
Hopefully the AD sees that these classes coming in will eventually change things here. Tuggy just needs some time for them to develop
Tuggy adds a freshman redshirt SG as a transfer. Nothing special, just more depth for the bench.
The AD is still ok with where we are currently and we aren't in the danger zone. I think those recruiting rankings are saving tuggy bear at the moment.
We are hoping that with our inside game this year we take that step up and is the year that we finally don't finish in last place. It's what we want, but is it realistic???
Let's go find out
Nope, we are still a hot mess of a team.
We finish up 9-22 and 3-15 in conf. We won our fist BIG conf tourney game though. lol. YIPPIEEEEEE
Goodness this is getting old. The struggle continues.
Good news. The AD thinks its time for a facility upgrade, so there is that.
Another good class for us. Not top 25, but good enough to help get us out of this black hole of last place that never seems to be ending.
We have 4 schollys to hand out this year. So our roster is finally balanced. Not the exact way we would like but balanced enough.
This is the make or break year for Tuggy bear and Purdue. Everybody on the roster is Tuggy's and there cant be any blame put anywhere but him. This has to be the year we climb out of the hole right????
I feel ok with our starters and our bench here. We are only 8 deep but that should be enough......
Crossing Fingers
Well we finally did it. lol 2nd to last place.
We finished up 13-17 and 5-13 in the BIG
Still no where in the area of what we wanted, but to not finish in last after doing so 4 straight years feels ok
James Thrasher who was a first team selection was selected 52nd overall. First guy to be drafted, so that's a neat thing for the program.
Not another bad class. We just need to keep rolling like this to complete the transition up the charts here.
48th in the country which is good for 5th in the Big. Not going to complain here at all.
Slow and steady wins the race I guess.
We land a Freshmand Redshirt transfer from VCU. ranked 275. I am hoping he can have an impact for us this season.
That will leave us 2 schollys to hand out on the recruiting trail.
So I had expectations to be in the middle of the pack this year in the big. I think we had the depth to do it. However idiots need to stop getting suspended like warner just did in order to accomplish that.
We had depth, not now.
Just hoping for another finish above last place
Almost forgot to mention. The AD'S expectations have now gone up. He wants to play in a post season tourney. Wonderful. Like that's gonna happen with the rate we have been going.
Well this has been a real interesting year. Our best yet. We are right at the conf tourney and here is where we sit.
Last week we were on the bubble list and the prediction was out. maybe after a few wins in the conf tourney that might just push us in. That freaking one loss to that 200+ team is killing us. We have beat Michigan State and Illinois this year. We split. So we can play with the big boys. Our 4 wins against the top 50 are better than both Wisc and Iowa who are projected as in. We need a good tourney push here and we have the ability to do it.
Either way this has been a great season for us
We beat Ohio state in the first round, but lost to Wisc in the 2nd. That was the damn win we needed. Wis swept us all year. They just had our number which sucks..... Let's see where we land
Tuggy and the team watch the selection show but to no avail. We get selected at the 5th seed in the NIT.
A win for us would be a good showing.
we beat UTEP in the first game and then get crushed by Kent State in the 2nd round.
Im excited about where this team could be heading
We finish up 19-14 and 10-8 in conf.
We have a first team all BIG and a 2nd team all BIG
Our transfer that we landed pick up a all freshman team award.
Now lets see how the recruiting went this year
So some context. Before this past season Purdue had not made any type of tourney in 13 years. Their best year was a 24 win season and a sweet 16 finish. It doesn't look like we are that far behind that. Not bad work for Tuggy Bear and the turn around job he has done here
We land the 36th class in the nation. Good for 7th in the BIG, however that would have been higher if we would have had a 3rd recruit. Both guys were 4 stars. So again liking where this ship is heading.
This conf is killer though. Look at those rankings for the BIG. 6 teams in the top 20 and 2 in the top 5 and 3 in the top 10. Just nutty here.
Its real hard to compete with that.
We have a staff retirement in Irvin, our coaching assistant, and our lead scout wants a raise.
not sure what tuggy is going to do. Our recruiting has been working out real well by skimping on the coaching salaries. If upping that and brining in a high caliber coach hurts that, tuggy would kick himself for years.....
Almost forgot. Our Ad rewarded us with another facility upgrade
In the end I hedged and put 90k into my coaching assistant. more money there, but still should have enough in the recruiting to continue what we have been doing
We have 4 schollys to hand out this year.
Didn't redshirt anybody and boy do I think we should be ok this year.
Nice balance on the roster. Hoping to make the tourney this year.
Our future looks pretty damn good. Both freshman bigs should start this year and with the guards already on the squad. Really hoping we can do some damage.
Well that didn't go as expected at all
We finish the season at 12-19 and 6-12 in conf. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3r to last in conf and that is not the step forward I was hoping and expecting. Guess that was my fault for placing too much hope on 2 freshman in the paint.
Another great class coming in. I keep on the bandwagon that the future is bright and we just keep staying the course here.
13th ranked class in the nation and 2nd in the BIG. Tuggy needs to get his stuff together to make a good run here shortly
The AD is getting mad at me and the seat is now warm. He wants to play in the post season, and he wants it now. I get it, I really do, but now is not the time to be pulling this crap. The heat is on, and we need to have a good year this year. Hopefully everybody takes a nice step forward in training camp this year
we have 3 schollys to give out this year
Our squad isn't bad, but we aren't where I would like to be either. We have some players, and the talent is there, we just haven't developed that talent. That is directly due to our coaching staff, and tuggy not winning enough to develop his skill set too.
I do think we can get to the NIT though, and im hoping we can pull through. I think in a year or 2 we will be where we want to be and Tuggs needs to be the guy to be coaching it
What in the sam hill is going on around here. This slide is just crazy!!!!
We end up going 9-21 and 1-17 in the conf
Yes you did just read that right
I honestly don't even know what the hell happened. That has to be the most under performing squad I have EVER had in FBCB and im talking about thousands and thousands of hours here into this game.
I literally haven't seen anything like that before
that is not a 1-17 squad in the BIG....... that's worse that the original team that tuggy bear started with. Im seriously shocked over here
well I guess im gonna get fired. although the AD is a patient one. I might have a slim chance to stay since he is that way. lets hit the button and see
We have another nice class
28th in the nation and good for 5th in the BIG. Might be the saving grace. The AD is still at warm, so I might get the chance I need here.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
Tuggy Bear gets another year, and the AD doesn't even have us in the danger zone yet, but goodness. This squad needs to do better. Tuggy needs to do much better before he gets run right out the door
We have 3 schoolys to offer out in recruiting this year.
This is what we look like. After last years debacle I honestly have no idea what to expect. I think we should be good, but who the heck knows now.
Some greens and blues in there and we should have some depth.
Not the season we wanted, but it wasn't all that bad either.
We ended up going 18-14 and 9-9 within the BIG. I am concerned that I might get fired, but then at the same time. We did have a winning record and we didn't have a losing record in conf. I need another good class to have a chance I think.
Yet another good class.
21st in the nation and 2nd in the BIG. This isn't turning into wins though. So I think im going to switch up (if I don't get the can here on this next sim) and put some more money into the Coaching assistant and hope he can do some miracles with development.
I keep my job and I fire my scout. He wants more money and is going to leave anyway. I fire my coaching assistant, and I bring in two more guys.
Dumped 180 K into my coaching assistant in hopes he can help develop these guys.
We have 3 schollys to offer this year. In speading money on my coaching staff I go from around 28k for recruiting to about 19k. Big difference.
Again I am hoping we can make a tourney. Being in the BIG is killing me though. Maybe I should have went with another team way back how many seasons ago. I feel like im barely treading water over here. Tuggy Bear seems to always be on the hot seat fighting for his life.
The roster looks really good and to start the season we are ranked 20th. The first time we have been ranked. Nice, but unless that gets me somewhere its meaningless.
Finally we get over the HUMP!
We go 20-10 and 11-7 in the BIG. Our RPI is 22 so we will be going to the dance this year. The bubble watch has as in as a lock. Its a big relief thinking about that.
First round of the conf tourney we play wisc. We split this year. We beat them. Up next is the Illini and we haven't beaten them it honestly feels like in 8 years. We can seem to beat them or Michigan State who also swept us this year.
and that streak continues. they beat us again.
I will be watching the selection show as tuggy finally get to see the purdue name on the big board
We will be a number 8 seed and we face off against #9 seed Arkansas State.
A quick look at their team. They aren't bad. 3 green guys overall, but nothing special. It would be upsetting if we did not beat them. Let's see how we do
We cannot catch a freaking break. They beat us by 1 stinking point. 65-64.
We shot 19-34 from the free throw line and as I look at that stat, we deserved to lose.
UGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
This career has been beyond frustrating lol
On a side note as much as I would have loved to win that game, we would have played the number 1 seed Florida who made it to the elite 8 so I guess its not the biggest of deals. Still would have been nice though.
Michigan State and Illinois both were number one seeds, and Michigan state won the title.
As I roll the sim over, I noticed that Tuggy Bear won the Conf Coach of the year award. Nice little nugget for the resume.
I need to get the hell out of the BIG if I can
Man my 2 forwards get drafted at 19 and 22nd respectfully. That being said I was only able to win 11 games with them on my team in the BIG. I just sit here and shake my head.
Recruiting wise was a little bit worse. We came in at 32nd in the nation and 5th in the BIG. Once again our conf pulls in the good kids. 3 teams in the top 10 and 2 in the top 5.
Its that time again...
Where should Tuggy bear go?
At the moment
Tennessee
South Carolina
Northwestern
North Carolina State
Mississippi
Iowa State
George Washington
Have all reached out.
In looking at them all non of them stand out really. South Carolina and Mississippi don't look like bad jobs..... but neither are what Tuggs would be looking for.
However, in Tuggs 10 years at Purdue he has only made the tourney once, and the NIT once.
Overall he is 331-353 with 2 coach of the year awards on his resume. Grand total of 4 trips to the NIT and 2 trips to the NCAA tourney.
At 52 he needs to win now in order to ever reach a big time job.....
Not sure what to do. It's pretty clear he cannot win in the BIG.
ahhhhhhhh not the dilemma I was hoping for
In the end I thought long and hard about moving on with any of these schools and I just cant.
None offer anything that would benefit tuggy bear, and another season at Purdue in the hot seat would be better than making a move to programs that have major things wrong with them.
Leaving Purdue doesn't make sense so ill just hope for the best again. Thankfully the AD is very very patient so now that im back to average it should take a few struggle seasons to get me back to the danger zone. well that's what I hope anyway.
HAAAAAA
in a twist, I forgot about the 2nd round of offers, and while it isn't ideal, Tuggy Bear cant pass it up
While I don't like their unbalanced roster, they offer up some good talent and a higher Prestige school. I wont have to deal with the BIG's schedule and While VCU isn't at the very top of the A-10 they are close.
In the past 15 years they have been to the post season 11 of those years. 6 of the 11 being the NCAA tourney and last year they went to the elite 8.
Tuggy has some big shoes to fill, but thinks he can do it with the reduced schedule. If he can pull the same recruit rankings, this VCU stop should be a good one
I was able to land a transfer from Samford that was ranked 143 so we are off to a good start. we have 3 schollys to offer up this year on the recruiting trail.
The roster doesn't look bad. Tuggy is excited for his first season here and is hoping to make a tourney in his debut.
I will say its a tough conf but not as tough at the BIG. We start the year with 2 teams in the top 25 with others looking like they have nice rosters. Should be an interesting year
We finish the regular season at 22-8 and 11-5 in conf. that's good for 4th place. Bubble watch has us in at the moment, and the first team on the bubble list. So we need to win our first round game to make tuggy feel a little bit better. Our RPI isn't stellar. Its sitting currently at 42
We freaking lost in the first round of our conf tourney to a George Washington team that only had 8 wins.... SIGH
however we still make the tourney and play the play in game for the right to the 11th seed.
Boy did we make our own bed here.
We beat Northern Illinois by 6.
Up next is Gonzaga who is Georgia. They are the 6th seed, and honestly in looking at their team I have no idea how they have gotten so far as they have. They have a shooting guard and that's it. We should be able to beat them
We end up beating them by 11 while holding their SG to 18. Joe Chin who is our best player as a senior goes off for 37....
Next up is the number 3 seed Arizona. I am not hopeful here. They look pretty balanced. They in fact beat us by 8. closer game than I would have thought. Joe Chin went off again this game for 33. They couldn't slow him down, and we couldn't find any other offense to go with him this time.
Real nice season for us and tuggy. Its real nice to actually win for once
We land the 37th class, but its only good for 5th in conf. UMASS pulls a BIG and lands the 4th best class.
I get to upgrade Tuggys points, and Joe Chin got drafted 17th.
4 schollys to offer this year.
the Roster looks decent. I am hoping to compete for the conf title and make the ncaa tourney again.
Might be a little slip up this year though. I don't see where Joe's 24 points a game are going to come from this year.
We finish up 20-10 and 10-6 in conf. That is good for 4th place. A look at the bubble watch and it says we are a lock this year. Tuggy is feeling pretty good going into the A-10 tourney.
We win the first round, second round and lost by a point to fordam in the semi's. St. Joes then spanks Fordham by 40 in the championship. That sucks cause im sure we would have given them a better game.
Lets see where we fall in with the tourney
We are the 9 seed and we play UCONN. They looked to be stacked so it would be a miracle if we were to pull this upset.
We don't, and we only score 38 points. We stunk up the joint.
It would have been nice to advance to see Michigan state as the #1 seed in the next round.
I sim the rest of the tourney and of course Michigan State wins another title. The BIG is just crazy good
Looking at purdue
They went 12-18 last year and 6-12 in conf
This year they went 17-13 and 10-8 in conf.
It was a good call for TUGGY in leaving when he did.
We land the 57 best class in the nation. We slipped a lot this year recruiting wise. one 4 star guy, one 3 star guy and one 2 star guy.
5th best in the A-10 though. Still disappointing however
and its time to take a break. been a fun day for Tuggs and his career.
He is ranked 47th all time for the most L's. lol that made me laugh.
Hasn't been a stellar career so far.
Tuggy lands the #78 recruit from last year who transfers out of St. Joes.
Also hired a rookie coaches assistant who has 100 ratings on "O" and "D".
We have 2 guys to offer schollys to this year
Roster looks ok this year. Nothing earth shattering, but hopefully enough to put us in the tourney.
Jenkins looks to be a guy that is going to be a hell of a shooter. As a freshman he has 92 from deep already.
We finish up at 20-10 and 11-5 in conf.
Bubble watch has us in and on the 2nd line of the list. Our SOS is terrible this year, so we prob need to win a game or 2 In our conf tourney. Hopefully that wont be a problem for us this year.
And that's the way this career has gone for Tuggy. We lost to Lasalle 78-79 which of course knocks us out of the tourney.
We end up the #2 seed in the NIT where we take on UNC Greensboro. Another disappointment.
We win that game by 4, which doesn't inspire confidence and we move on to play North Florida.
We lose that game by 12.
Hopefully recruiting takes away the sting of the end of this season
We land the 19th best class this year and Tuggy's first 5 star recruit. Our 2 forwards come in ranked 12th and 56th respectfully.
19th was good for 3rd best in the conf. St. Joes was ranked 11th and George Mason was ranked 12th.
Notre Damn and Baylor offer Tuggy Bear their head coaching positions.
Notre Dame plays in the ACC but has a prestige of 70. Here at VCU its 83. Gonna pass there, even though coaching in the ACC would be nice.
Baylor is actually tempting, but tuggy passes there as well. their prest is only in the 50's however they have only been to the post season twice so that turnaround job in a fertile recruiting texas would have been a decent way to end a career.
Tuggy is holding out hope that a major major will come in the next few years or even in another sim to get him to leave VCU
We have 4 schollys to offer out this year. Hoping for a real good class to supplement that last class.
We are liking our roster this year. It looks like we have some talent and will have some depth. I like us better than last year and we hoped to make the tourney so its a bit more amped this year.
Jenkins is now at 98 from deep. He shot the 3 at a 48% clip last year. Hope that continues this year
and another terrible year. Tuggy seems to have one at each stop. We go 17-15 and 6-10 in conf. Fail to make any tourney and overall just shat the bed. Our RPI was 42 so we played some tough teams (SOS was 14) but just couldn't put it together. We ended up going 3-11 vs top 50 teams and that just cant happen. We also went 3-2 vs 51-100 teams.
This will prob put tuggy on the hot seat
OHHH MY LORD
So after licking the wounds from last year, this happened.
three 5 star recruits and 1 four star???
Tuggy might get the opportunity to end his career with a bang!
Roster looks solid. Im not gonna make a prediction this year, but im expecting to be good.
Tuggy needs to win this year though, the board has me on the hot seat and is giving the AD some grief.
Fingers are crossed.
We finished up 22-9 and 14-2 in the conf and keeping true to form lose the first round of our conf tourney.
We land a 6 seed in the NCAA tourney and play against a Florida Gulf Coast team as the 11 seed.
Im stopping there to watch the 2nd half of the games tonight.
Tuggy seems to have some life at the end of his career though
Young Drachma
03-19-2015, 06:33 PM
Never noticed this one before, but always like your FBCB dynasties because you know the game so well.
Never noticed this one before, but always like your FBCB dynasties because you know the game so well.
Thanks DC. This one is a bit different for me as i'm not doing a whole lot and just trying to fly through seasons. Wanted to see if I could get to an elite school this way, and it has been harder than I thought it would have. I think by the time Tuggy does get a good offer it will be time to retire or pretty darn close to it.
Either way its been a fun struggle!
FGC is the first up and a quick look of a roster doesn't show much. We should beat them.
We do although it shouldn't have been as close as it was. We won 76-68. That doesn't inspire a ton of confidence going into the 2nd match up with the number 3 seed Villanova who by the way is also ranked 4th in the country
We were just out classed in that game as nova beats us 88-74. We had 25 team fouls that game with 1 starter fouling out and 2 others ending with 4. Needless to say we played a lot of the bench that game and was happy to see us not lost by 30.
Time to see what happens next
Tuggy was named the A-10 coach of the year this season and I got a notice that a guy committed played in the High school All American game, and ohhhh by the way was the MVP of that game with 19 points scored as a SG. I'm thinking that we are gonna have another real nice class coming in again this year.
Our recruiting class came in at 22nd which was good for 4th in the A-10. the 4th was a disappointing rating, but top 25 is still good. We landed a 5 start a 4 start and a 3 star.
An interesting tid bit here. We landed the #1 recruit last year from Cali, and our 5 start this year was ranked as the 5th best kid in the nation from Texas. We aren't landing the big studs from the East coast we are leaving our base to land better kids. That is interesting for me to see.
The other thing when looking at the guys that have come to VCU that I haven't really noticed because I have been trying to fly through the seasons but will be starting to pay attention now is that all the guards that I have brought in can shoot the hell out of the 3 or have major 3 point potential.
I gotta keep better track to see if Tuggs is doing that on purpose or it has simply just worked out like that
Tuggy got to upgrade himself. so he is now 100 in recruiting and 40 every where else on his coaching card.
Xavier
UNC
South Carolina
St. Johns
Pitt
Alabama
They all come a calling for Tuggy bear, but he isn't having any of it. There could be something special brewing here at VCU and leaving it now would just be crazy.
Although saying No to Pitt being an alumi was tough.
We need to see how these recruiting classes are going to gel and play out together
Virginia Tech is the first major major program to offer their head job.
They have a Prestige of 90, have a huge budget, are in the ACC, and had the number 10 ranked class last year.
Saying no to them is hard....
Their roster looks like this. They are balanced, they have a real good sophomore and freshman classes. It would be a job I would take any other day. I just don't think leaving VCU at this point would be a good idea.
I think VCU can make some noise in a year or 2 and want to see that play out.
In the end, Tuggy choses to stay on at VCU
Clemson, Miami and Boston College also come calling and both get turned down as well. Something about the ACC wanting Tuggy in their league I guess.
I had an assistant leave to take the head job at Stony Brook. My coaching tree has seen 3 other assistants become head coaches.
The best being James morales who left Tuggs while he was at Purdue to take over the Loyola IL program who he turned into a winner quickly. So quick in fact that Georgia Tech nabbed him their coach after 4 years at Loyola. I hope James does a good job at GT. Pretty cool to see one of your own take over a power program
Here is what James looks like
While I am on the topic of assistants, its only going to be a matter of time before Mr. Stewart here gets a shot, and he is going to have a real good shot of being good quick if put into the right situation.
He is pretty young to have those ratings, and will be a huge blow to Tuggys staff when he leaves
britrock88
03-21-2015, 12:43 PM
Wow. Yeah. Level 9!
We have 3 schollys to offer out this year and another interesting thing enters the dynasty
Bob Tuggs Jr enters the recruiting fold From Thomas Jefferson High School. VCU isn't even in his current top 5, so it doesn't look like he wants to play for good ole dad. That may change in a sim or 2, but it should be fun to follow his career now as well
Wow. Yeah. Level 9!
I lucked out with him a few years ago. there was 4 guys out there with 100's on both the "O" and "D" side, so I offered the young guy with no experience a shot for 200K and it worked out for us.
After the firstthe recruiting sim a few changes.
Duke takes the lead with 100 prestige
Penn State in second with 55
UNC Wilmonton 3rd with 51
Towson in 4th with 25
Nobody has offered yet
How awesome is this gonna be if the game does this???
Look who trickled into the top 5 this sim!!!
Should be interesting next few sims to see if he commits.
As much as I was hoping for that to happen, the basketball gods just didn't have it in their cards.
Unless something ungodly happens down there at Duke, it looks like Tuggy Jr, will be taking his talents to Penn State to play for Head Coach Quincy Mcgee who is in his 2nd stint as a head coach. He had some success at Oral Roberts earlier on in this career before Baylor came knocking. He spent 6 seasons at Baylor before being fired and jumping from program to program before PSU came calling last year.
No change in the recruitment status this sim. Still PSU only one offering with DUKE right behind not offering
Back to VCU
I think we look real nice this year. We start ranked 18th, so that's a decent way to start and a measuring stick for us. We have good mix of just about everything EXCEPT size. We can defend, handle the ball and shoot the hell out of it.
Just no size with this team at all. Let's see how we fare this year.
Tuggs Jr. Still has yet to commit, and VCU has a scholly open..... Will Tuggy bear get back into the sweepsteaks on his son????
Tuggy jr doesn't seem like he wants to really go to PSU since he hasn't signed yet. They have been the only school to offer him a full ride an have done so since the 2nd sim of the recruiting season.
That is interesting to me
Tuggy bear does not even try as other teams tried to sneak back into the game on JR.
In the end he finally does commit to PSU, as I think they will have a heck of a PG on their hands in a few years.
We finish the year at 21-9 and 10-6 in the conf. Its not good enough. Our RPI sits at 46 which makes me think we are close to being on the bubble. I check the bubble watch and they have as us at being in, but not being a lock.
We go 4-6 against top 50 teams and 2-2 vs 52-100.
We win the first round of the conf tourney but get upset in the 2nd round.
Now im nervous.
Selection sunday brings us some bad news. We are in the play in game for the right to be the 13th seed. Another poor showing for Tuggy so far this year
We win the play in game thank goodness and then have Arizona waiting for us.
We pull a crazy crazy ass upset vs Arizona.
That puts us against #5 seed Syracuse. Can we pull another one?
We freaking DO!!!! Down goes the CUSE!!!!
Jenkins goes off and was 6-12 from downtown. Moving on up here for Tuggy bear
Up next is the #1 seed Florida. Not sure about this one, but didn't think we were gonna be able to get to the sweet 16 either.
We have the caliber of players to play with these guys, its just which team is gonna show up. The underachieving team from the regular season, or the team that has showed up thus far in the big dance.
THE DREAM SEASON CONTINUES!!!!!!!!!!
We did it again. and mount a huge comeback from the half. We were down 42-28 at half...
These kids have no quit
We play the 2nd seeded wis squad. Again if we keep shooting the way our guards are, we could keep going.
Lets see what happens.
I cant even believe this. We did it again.
FINAL 4 HERE COMES TUGGY BEAR and VCU!!!!!
From the play in game to this game against UCLA this has been a fun fun fun ride.
UCLA has a talented talented team. Like wow talented. They have actually redshirted 3 freshman who are green and yellow.....
another neat thing to see is their entire roster is from Cali. No need to go out of their state for guys. I don't even know what their weakness is.
They are ranked 5th in scoring, 2nd in field goal %, 8th in assists, first in steals, 28th in blocks and 33rd on the boards....
To put that in perspective we are 6th in scoring and 2nd in steals, but do not rank in the top 50 in any other category.
Lets see how we do
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
A heart breaker for us...... WE FREAKING HAD THEM
UCLA goes on to beat Maryland in the title game 76-65.
We very well could have been champs this year. Such a near miss. Tuggy will be thinking about that loss all offseason
Arnaldo Jenkins finishes up his fantastic career being ranked 13th all time in this history books with 501 made 3pt shots. Shot that at a 41% clip.
Also had 2299 points which is 7th all time in the A-10 history books and 2nd all time in the VCU books.
He was ranked 75th coming out of Florida in his class and was first team A-10 his Senior year.
Was apart of the only team that has made a final 4 in the history of VCU
Just a storied career for Jenkins
Jenkins goes undrafted which sucks. Was really hoping he would get picked up.
Our recruiting class is ranked 15th and 3rd in the A-10. We picked up 2 five stars and one 3 star.
Penn State landed the 79th best class this year highlighted by Tuggy Jr. He was their one 3 star kid, and they landed 2 other 2 stars
Well some major major choices are at hand with Bob Tuggs.
He has offers from
100 prestige teams Florida, Michigan State and Villanova
Other Great teams to note- Georgetown (88) and Clemson (89) George Mason (89)
Then Vanderbuilt, Ok State, St Bonnie, Marquette, Georgia, and Arkansas
Every single job that is open above a 60 has been offered to Tuggy with the exception of Stanford (who is at 60 prest) so he is the hot coach of this offseason
If Tuggy is going to leave now might have to be it. Not too many 100 prestige teams out there to begin with let alone 3 offering you their job in te same offseason.
Florida gets cut though because their roster situation is just terrible. Their head coach left them in a mess for the new guy to come in and clean up.
An argument can be made the Michigan State is historically the best program ever, with Nova not that far behind.
Nova looks to have a real nice roster here
MSU has a decent roster and might have a better freshman class especially with those big 7'0 & 6'11 guys in the middle
Still not sure what to do here.
Another factor coming into play here is the fact that Tuggy Jr will be playing at PSU, and Senior would get to see him play first hand twice a year for the next 4 years.
The sad thing in all of this is that I think VCU has the best roster here even without height, which makes this such a tough choice. The Junior class was the number 1 class in the nation.
If Tuggy leaves and they pull down a title would be a giant kick in the pants here
As much as I want to try and like MSU I cant get past the fact that their roster might be the 3rd out of the 3 teams. They have decent freshman but tuggy isn't getting any younger and now isn't the time to do that when their are others out there better.
I do think it would have been a neat storyline to get to see Tuggy Jr 8 times though.
MSU has been cut
In the end as much as Tuggy wants to stay the opportunity to go play with the big boys in the Big East is just to good to pass up. We have been able to bring in good classes everywhere we have been, and I think NOVA gives tuggy the opportunity to bring in top 10 and top 5 classes every year.
Tuggy has a coach take a head job at Wofford and then cans his lead scout.
With a huge budget now, to be able to bring in the best coaches now becomes as nice luxary.
Tuggy just might have assembled the best young coaching staff in the country.
Hobart is level 5 with no experience
Charles is level 8 with no experience
Stewart is level 9 with 4 years under his belt under Tuggy at VCU
Three schoolys to offer up this year
We are ranked #1 with the opening coaches poll this season. VCU is 3rd.
We are freaking stacked this year, which has Tuggy excited. He wants to get back to the final 4 in a bad bad way. He still tastes that loss from last year.
In looking at Penn State's roster, Tuggy Jr shouldn't start, but he will be the first guard of the bench so he should get plenty of PT in his freshman year there.
That might be a real nice play for him to flourish actually with the amount of PT he should be able to get.
Tuggy finishes up his first reg season at Villanova going 24-7 and 12-6 in the big east. That was good for a 2nd place finish behind unranked DePaul.
We win the first round of the conf tourney but lose to Xavier in the 2nd round.
The Ncaa seeds us as an 8th seed in the west region. Man that's tough being ranked 12th in the country.
Tuggy Jr has an ok season. Played in all the teams games however did not get as many mins as I thought he was going to get. Only 9.5 a game. PSU however has the best record they have had 9 years though. They make the NIT as a 6 seed
VCU finishes up the season at 25-5 ranked number 1 and has a 2 seed in the West region.
We beat Louisville bad 104-72 in the first round.
VCU beats texas am CC 70-54 to also advance.
Penn state pulls an upset an also advances in their NIT bracket. Tuggy jr played 8 mins and had 2 points.
In a shocking upset #16 Cal State Bakersfiled upset #1 seed Syracuse 59-55 in the first round of the tourney. So we will see the bell of the ball in round 2.
We easily handle them 101-68 to advance
Cincy upsets VCU 72-63 to knock them out of the west region
Penn state pulls of another upset of #2 seed James Madison in the NIT 73-48. Tuggy Jr had a real nice game with 15 mins played and 4 pts, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.
We play #4 seed Kansas and pull of a squeeker 83-81. We truly were very under-seeded in this tourney. None of these wins shocks me. Im still shocked at how low our seed was with the 8 seed.
Penn State loses to Bulter and their season comes to a close. Tuggy jr played 9 mins and had 4 pts and an assist.
In the elite 8 we play the 7 seed cincy team who I know can play since they upset VCU.
In looking at their roster though, it would be a shame if we did not advance. A few green guys but they don't look like anything special.
But boy do they play their ass off. Cincy beats us 67-65 in a disappointing game for us.
We shot terrible, and honesty deserved to lose now that I look over the box. Not a lot of teams you are going to beat at this level shooting 37 % from the field, 21% from 3 and 64% from the free throw line. We destroyed them on the boards 48-31 and they had 3 more turnovers than we did. just a poor poor showing from the team today.
Cincy then loses their next game to Richmond 73-67 to end their run
We land the 12th best class in the nation with 1 5 star and two 4 star guys.
Better than what we were doing at VCU, however VCU pulls in the 7th best class in the nation.
AHHHHHH Stewart Dixon leaves and takes a the head job at Coastal Carolina. That is going to be a huge hit. Hopefully there is another guy available out there that can be just as good of a coaching assistant.
Tuggy is able to upgrade himself and is now rated 100, 40, 50, 50
We were unable to land the same caliber of coach as Dixon but bring in some head coaching experience. Gordon Hopkins joins us as he was recently fired by purdue. Tuggy bear can related to that struggle and was more than willing to give Gordan another chance. His record all time is 188-189.
We have 4 offers to hand out this recruiting period.
Our roster looks ok this year. We should be able to hold our own.
Tuggy Jr should be the starter this year at PSU and look to be a decent point guard. Very good handles.
We start the year ranked 5th and VCU with that senior class that was ranked number 1 starts out as the #1 team ranked in the polls this year.
We finish up the season 25-6 and 12-5 in conf which put us in 2nd. St. Johns won the conf and we split during the regular season.
We actually run through the conf tourney and beat Georgetown in the title game. They beat St. Johns to get there.
We start the tourney as a freaking #5 seed in the east. Again I think its a terrible terrible seed.
We finish up the season ranked 7th in the nation and VCU ranked 7th. They went 29-4.
Penn State won 3 games all year with Tuggy Jr starting at the PG spot as a sophomore.
Feel bad that they don't have much of a roster over there.
We run over UAB in the first round of the tourney 102-79.
Up next for us is number 4 seed Maryland. They will challenge us and push us. Tuggy needs to stay focued on this game and no look forward to VCU who we would get with a victory against Maryland. Assuming VCU beat #9 seed Iowa state
Maryland beats us 93-86, but Iowa state also pulls off a huge upset and VCU goes down 84-77.
Not a good run for us this year. Hopefully recruiting is good
britrock88
03-21-2015, 04:42 PM
Crazy couple of years you've had.
Well this is why Tuggy left VCU and went to a big boy school.
We land the number 1 class in the nation and pull in four 5 star recruits.
They rank 2,4,8, and 12 respectfully.
Hell of a class there.
Virginia offers tuggy their head coaching job and he isn't interested.
I forget to try and upgrade my coaching assistant. That might hurt.....
We have 4 offers to entice recruits with again this year. if we have another great class this could be something special in 2-3 years here.
Crazy couple of years you've had.
It has been an interesting ride. the upsets seem to be up in the past few years with this career, at least that's is what it seems like. I haven't run through each game, but there was a lot to notice when I was actually looking.
Our roster looks strong again this year.
Trammel and Sherer are going to be mosters together in 3 years. Hopefully tuggy understands that even though we are deep in the paint, he needs to get sherer the mins so he doesn't transfer. He projects to be better that Trammel actually.
britrock88
03-21-2015, 04:58 PM
Are there no early entries? Because Trammell would certainly be a 1-year player otherwise.
Tuggy Jr is going to try to figure out a way to lead PSU to a few wins this year.
Being a pure PG, its going to be hard since there is nobody on that roster to set up.
Will be interesting to see how he develops.
We start the year ranked 2nd in the Polls, and VCU is ranked 16th. They still have a good roster, but after this year I expect to see them take a decent size drop off wins wise.
We finish up the season 26-5 and 13-5 in conf, which once again puts us in 2nd place. Georgetown who beat us twice won the conf only losing 2 games.
Penn State finishes up 11-19 and it looks like Tuggy Jr might have wasted his career going there to try to build up a program.
Georgetown beat us in the conf title game for their 3rd win over us this year. They just own us. We lost by 27 in the title game to them. Just a crazy loss for us.
We finally get a decent seed as a #3 seed in the south region. We finish the season ranked 4th in the polls. VCU finished up being ranked 14th
We play Samford in the first round and they shouldn't offer us much resistance. They don't as we beat them by 40.
Next up is Florida State. They don't look like anything special either few green guys as they are the number 6 seed. We beat them 85-62.
Sweet 16 time!
VCU loses to Louisville this round so they get knocked out. Feel bad for the seniors there. They underachieved badly the past 2 years. Has to be their new coach cause they certainly had the talent.
Youll like this post BRIT.
We play Tennesse State who has simply captured America's heart this tournament. They made the Sweet 16 by beating #2 seed Richmond 101-93, then play #7 seed Utah and beat them 84-75 as the number 15 seed. So here they are playing another big boy team after already slaying one. They have 1 blue player who is a PG who can play D- averages 2.1 steals a game. They also have 1 green player who has a rating of 95 inside and averages 17.2 points in the paint.
We clearly need to hold that post guy in check, but other than that, they don't have anybody else. I'm simply amazed at what this team has been able to accomplish
So I went back and looked at their box scores. They are literally the hottest shooting team ever. In both of those games they shot over 50% from the field, and didn't shot below 80 from the charity stripe.
They held Richmond to 30% in their first game, and had Utah in the low 40's.
We better not run into this buzz saw and better play some D this game.
Well we showed up and played some D. We beat them 86-56 and they only shot 32% this game. We pounded them in the paint and scored 43 points from our starting C and PF.
Up next in the Elite 8 is duke, and well they are duke so it should be a good game
We made Duke turn the ball over 28 times in an upset victory 89-81. We are starting to hit out stride I think
We take on fellow 3 seed Virginia Tech in the final 4. They are top heavy, but have no bench at all.
I'm hoping we are able to get past them to be in the title game. Will be disappointed to get past a good duke team only to lose to VT
Wow has this been a neat run.
We do handle our business and take down VT 93-84 to advance to the title game against rival DePaul.
Our 17 turnovers cant happen again though if we expect to win in the big game
DePaul has been on a nice run themselves. They are a 7 seed and finished up 3rd behind us in the Big East Standings.
We beat DePaul twice this season. 81-61 at home, and then 76-67 at their place.
It's hard not to be confident about this one right?
Can Tuggy Bear get his first Title? Can he vault NOVA to their 4th title in 6 appearances?
National Champs!!!!!
Tuggy and his team beat DePaul for the 3rd time 75-68 to become national champs.
Tuggy is no longer a loser nor a failure when looking at records.
Tuggy made a good choice moving to Villanova when even he questioned if he was making the correct choice.
In the end he was correct, and will go down in the history books as a national champion rather than an average coach which was looking like he would only be a few short years ago.
That what 10 years or so at Purdue almost had him canned, and he would have never had this opportunity if that job turned out a bit differently.
Kinda crazy how 1 season makes or breaks you in this game.
Side note: We clean up the awards this year which was neat to see.
I also have feeling we are going to have an unreal recruiting class after looking at my emails.
It is possible for us to get even better?
While its not number 1, we will still take it. Hard to knock four 5-star guys coming into the fold.
We lost another coach to Valpo. I think Charles Shannon might be a huge coach in a few years. I hope he goes off and does some big things for Valpo! Level 9 with 97, 100, 39 and 44 as ratings. He spend 3 years on Tuggys Bench as the scout. He has been to the round of 32, the elite 8 and has a national title under his belt.
If you are gonna take a gamble, why not on his 27 year old butt. Yes head coach at Valpo is now 27!
I cant wait to see where he might be in a few years
James Morales who was the head coach at Georgia Tech was fired, so he is now an assistant at Rhode Island. I was hoping he would made an impact at GT.
Scott Ray who left me at VCU to take over at Wofford made the NIT last year. so in 3 years at Wofford he is 49-47 with a conf title. He might have a shot.
Steward Dixon who was my first coach that I was excited about getting a job has struggled in his 2 years at coastal Carolina. He is 17-45. Hopefully he can right that ship soon.
William Lundgarden who was with me at purdue for a year an followed me to VCU, left me and took over at Fairleigh Dickenson. He parlayed that job into a better one at Georgia state, where he just finished up a 21-12 campaign and a first round loss in the tourney. He is 131-93.
So that's my coaching tree at the moment
With a guy transferring out that leaves us with 3 offers to recruit with this year.
We stack up nicely again this year. Is it repeatable? I don't think we are that good. We have too much green and not enough blue, but I expect to make the tourney and compete for a sweet 16 hopefully.
Im afraid Tuggy Jr will once again have a bad year at Penn State. Maybe with some luck he will get drafted, but its not looking likely.
They just have nobody to pair him up with, and it has been sad to watch his talents not get used the way a top team would have been able to use them.
We start the year ranked 2nd with UCLA nabbing the top spot. As expected VCU isn't ranked, and has dropped off the map talent wise which is a shame.
After looking over their roster, I might be being harsh. I wasn't expecting 3 freshman who are all currently green blue to show up. So they have a shot at being decent but extremely young.
We finish the year at 21-9 and 12-6 in conf which was good for 3rd place. DePaul finished up 16-2 in conf and Xavier finished up tied with us but had a better overall record.
We are ranked 27th, and VCU for goodness sakes is ranked 11th. Good for those freshman.
Georgetown beats us in the 2nd round of the big east tourney and we end up being an 8th seed in the east region of the ncaa tourney.
We will face #9 seed Kansas state who shouldn't really push us I wouldn't think but you never know.
Penn State finishes up 12-19 so Tuggy Jr was only able to play in the NIT his freshman year. Im disappointed with how that turned out
We beat Kansas state like I thought and then #1 seed Maryland runs over us 88-76. No magic run for us this year, but I didn't expect to have it. Young team that was good enough to compete which is all I was asking for.
VCU ended up making the sweet 16 before falling to butler by 10 in that game.
Tuggy Jr ended up having a good Senior year and might have a chance at getting drafted.
Tuggs Jr ends up finish up ranked 30th on PSU's all time scoring list, 2nd all time on their assist list, 6th all time on their steals list, and 13th all time on their free throws made list.
He finishes up 40th all time in the BIG 10 conference on their all time assist list.
Not a bad career, but nothing stellar. He will go down as one of the better players in the history of Penn State basketball as he was ranked 66th coming out of high school as a 3 star recruit.
Tuggs jr does get drafted with the 54th pick and will have a shot at an NBA roster, which is good for him. Not the career he wanted college wise, but has the opportunity to make it in the NBA.
SIDE NOTE
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We had the #10 ranked freshman class this year. three 5 star recruits again.
6,9, and 17 respectively.
Recruiting seems to have picked up with the move to NOVA
Gordon Hopkins leaves us to get another shot at being the head coach at Army.
Ill be looking for another coaching assistant.
I land another young gun with ratings as 53,98, 69, 100. He has no experience and is age 35. Experience level is at 11.
We have 2 offers to hand out this year.
Apparently my freshman class is pretty dumb. lol
Overall I expect a strong showing this year. Would love to see another final 4 trip.
We start the year ranked #2 in the polls
VCU is ranked 8th and has rebounded nicely with developing some of their lower tier players.
un freaking believable. I was pretty excited about what I thought I was going to be able to post, but then DePaul had to go and ruin it on the last damn game of the season
That would have bee the first time I have ever gone undefeated (even though im not doing much at all) but was still excited about the possibility of that, and in typical FBCB fashion it got ripped out from me when it was right there TO BE HAD
UGHHHHH
and then to make matters worse, we lose in the first round of the conf tourney.
lol
We go from a sure fire number 1 seed for what 6 months, and in a matter of 2 games over 6 days we drop a damn seed. ohhh my gosh that is frustrating
We play niagria in the first round. We crush them. 2nd round we play #7 seed Indiana State. They shouldn't offer much of a challenge either. However they do, and we sweat out a 72-67 victory.
Next up is #3 Kentucky which has a ton of firepower. Not sure how this one is going to end up, but I still like Tuggys chances. We have a deep team that can play.
We beat them 66-63 in a grind it out game. We keep rolling on!!
Next up is number 4 seed Maryland. They are just like us except they aren't as deep. They should pose a game though and im a bit more worried about the than Kentucky. Their starting 5 seems a bit more talented and their SG James Manya averages 19 points a game and can go off whenever he feels like it so.....
We shall see
Boy did I call that one
We move on with the 73-72 victory but check out the damage shooting guard James Manya did. He almost willed them to victory himself. If they would have gotten any type of production from their bench we would have been going home.
Instead though we are onto the Final 4 again and take on bad ass UCLA
UCLA can board, and block shots, but nothing else. They are #1 in rebounding and 5th in blocked shots, but don't have a lot else. They are average in that sense. In looking at their roster there are a lot of green guys.
They do have a PF in Junior Terell russel who averages 19.1 points, 8.9 boards, and 2.6 blocks. He can take over a game at any point. We will need to keep him in check.
On our side stats wise, we are 21st in field goal percentage, and 20th in blocks but even worse than UCLA in other categories. We however are 12-1 vs the top 50....... So we got that going for us.
Still think we can win this game
MAN...... we end up losing 69-54 and we held russel in check with 7 points on 2-14 shooting AND WE STILL GET BLOWN OUT
UCLA shoots the hell out of the 3 ball going 10-18. Between that and our 20 turnovers that is the difference in the game right there. We actually out rebounded them by one which was another surprise, but makes no real difference.
Tuggy is going to have prob one more real shot at the title, and that is next year.
After that it might be time to start to think about what he is going to do career wise as he will be 63 next season.
BTW UCLA claimed the title after a 35 point beat down vs Virginia Tech in the title game
Gonna stop there for the night. Its been fun!
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