Interest in a dual village challenge?

[QuikSand]

I have been fiddling with a TCY/FOF "challenge" career a bit, but it has reached the point of maturity where I no longer feel like I'm building a team, and rather that I'm mostly maintaining. And that's where I usually just up and quit.

Anyway, I thought this concept might be useful enough to see if there would be any interest in continuing it. I thought about doing it as a GroupThink (many people working together all at once) but I think this is better suited for a "VIllage" style. In that model (done here years ago) several people queue up to each take a turn running the whole thing for a season, and then turn it over to the next person, and so forth.

Anyway... I'll detail the career concept and the challenge momentarily.

[QuikSand]

I started out just playing a pretty standard TCY career, guiding one of the lower-level teams in the MAC (Buffalo) out of the basement and up to contender status. The usual progression ensued, basically -- after a decade or so, my Buffalo team was a contender for a bowl game, and we had become an academic powerhouse strong enough to attract top tier players who valued academic highly.

Anyway, out of habit I was saving my draft files, and eventually decided to put them to some use. So, I ginned up the engines of solo FOF 2007, and launched a new OPU career. Bottom line -- I'm playing as the Buffalo Bills, and my goal was to build my team with nothing but the players coming from my TCY school Buffalo.

Anyway, after a few years of building, I got the roster completely made of of Buff grads, and not surprisingly this os proving to be a massive roster limitation. After several seasons of zero wins or close to that, my last two seasons have seen us land a few pretty high quality players, and seen our roster rating leap from completely abysmal to merely pathetic. We're gaining on the second-worst team in the NFL, and we are up to four wins in each of our last two seasons. There may be some trickle of hope yet.


Anyway... my thinking would be this. I'm pretty much sick of thing thing on my own, but if there's interest, I could post the files for the TCY game and let anyone interested take it over a season at a time, document as much or as little as he sees fit, and keep generating draft files. If there's interest, I'm willing to turn over stewardship of the Bills, too, in a similar fashion.


So, if something like this sounds interesting to you, post in this thread. If we reach a critical mass, I'll assemble the files and we can turn this dual career into a Village Challenge, either in part or in whole.

[QuikSand]

In the "by the way" column, I have been playing TCY very hands off, letting my staff managed the depth chart, etc -- I've been pretty much just recruiting. Turns out that my Bison have never even made it to the MAC title game, on account of Miami of Ohio turning into a college football superpower in this career. I believe they have been to 3 of the last 4 title games in this career, including making one of them even with a loss (!!!). Anyhow, I think we nipped Miami one time in my years at Buffalo, but it was a fluke in a season where we weren't even within a game to take the spot in the conference title game. The MAC is basically loaded at the top, with Marshall, Bowling Green, and at least one other school usually contenders for the Top 25, along with my Buffalo squad. Just an interesting twist... not being able to steamroll my lesser conference has kept this team from rising very high in prestige, so the academic angle remains my strongest for players outside our region.

[Sgt Tomorrow]

I've been playing TCY as well because I had to fill a void from the leagues I cant be in anymore as well. I like your idea. I play TCY in a similar way. When you go after a recruit, do you perform all the actions in one week til the kids high school coach says "No future calls will make a difference"?