C'mon You Tigers (FBCB3)

[Young Drachma]

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When the Big Ten expanded to Colorado, adding private institution Beckwithurst University and Colorado College, the latter was considered just an add-on, giving the league a travel partner and also because of their world-class hockey program to join the Big Ten hockey league.

The year is 2010 and the Colorado College men's basketball team has never made the NCAA tournament.


COLORADO COLLEGE TEAM PERFORMANCE

Season Team W L CW CL Rank RPI PRS Result
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2009 Colorado College 7 25 2 16 350 259 48 No Postseason
2008 Colorado College 6 25 2 16 347 300 47 No Postseason
2007 Colorado College 7 23 3 15 343 330 46 No Postseason
2006 Colorado College 9 21 6 12 320 266 45 No Postseason
2005 Colorado College 3 26 2 16 351 321 43 No Postseason
2004 Colorado College 7 22 0 18 338 246 41 No Postseason
2003 Colorado College 8 19 4 14 301 325 39 No Postseason
2002 Colorado College 13 16 5 13 216 268 40 No Postseason
2001 Colorado College 7 22 4 14 335 292 40 No Postseason
2000 Colorado College 3 26 1 17 353 344 41 No Postseason
1999 Colorado College 10 20 4 14 298 232 41 No Postseason
1998 Colorado College 13 17 8 10 225 196 41 No Postseason
1997 Colorado College 10 22 6 12 314 265 39 No Postseason
1996 Colorado College 4 26 4 14 352 346 39 No Postseason
1995 Colorado College 8 21 4 14 320 315 40 No Postseason
1994 Colorado College 9 22 7 11 319 260 41 No Postseason
1993 Colorado College 6 23 2 16 344 327 39 No Postseason
1992 Colorado College 13 18 6 12 231 158 40 No Postseason
1991 Colorado College 7 22 4 14 331 305 39 No Postseason
1990 Colorado College 4 25 4 14 351 312 40 No Postseason
1989 Colorado College 11 18 6 12 248 168 40 No Postseason
1988 Colorado College 18 13 9 9 83 79 40 No Postseason
1987 Colorado College 8 21 3 15 319 308 36 No Postseason
1986 Colorado College 6 23 3 15 346 340 36 No Postseason
1985 Colorado College 5 24 3 15 347 346 35 No Postseason
1984 Colorado College 9 21 7 11 311 284 34 No Postseason
1983 Colorado College 3 26 2 16 352 350 30 No Postseason
1982 Colorado College 9 20 3 15 299 303 29 No Postseason
1981 Colorado College 4 26 1 17 350 346 27 No Postseason


Administration have gotten antsy and decided to invest in college basketball. First, they want to hire a new coach and focus on recruiting students that will bolster the school's presence as not just a hockey school, but a basketball school.

Can they do it?

[Young Drachma]

Here's what the prestige looks like in the B1G:


2010 Big Ten Conference Standings

EAST CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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#15 Ohio State Buckeyes 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 14 88
Indiana Hoosiers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 58 74
Northwestern Wildcats 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 76 81
Maryland Terrapins 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 109 65
Michigan Wolverines 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 110 73
Penn State Nittany Lions 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 116 56
Michigan State Spartans 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 129 74
Rutgers Scarlet Knights 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 133 60

WEST CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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#11 Beckwithurst Chipmunks 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 15 77
#10 Nebraska Cornhuskers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 19 94
Minnesota Golden Gophers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 23 84
Wisconsin Badgers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 26 69
Iowa Hawkeyes 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 157 72
Purdue Boilermakers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 166 82
Illinois Fighting Illini 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 173 72
Colorado College Tigers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 259 48

[Young Drachma]

Rather than getting ourselves concerned with the muck, we're just gonna ride the March Madness wave in this dynasty. I'll just do season-recaps and the only game-by-game I'll do is for post-seasons. You don't care about our regular season, you just wanna know about march madness and that's all I care about too.

We'll probably go 20 years or so and see if something magjikal happens.

[bbgunn]

Looks promising!

[Young Drachma]

Since the real goal here is using this as an NCAA tournament dynasty, I'm gonna use Starting Ten (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=88539) as a model for what we do every NCAA. In addition to tracking Colorado College in the tournament -- provided they can ever make it -- I'll do my own roster of players each season. But since there is no one else to compete with, rather than using the points my players generate to win or lose, we'll use the points to generate a dollar amount each season based on my performance.

Each point being worth $1668, and we'll compare each year. Since I won't be doing any of the recruiting or spending time with the different teams, it'll be a good way for me to benchmark against my random abilities to pick talent out or whatever.

Ideally, we'll have guys from Colorado College in the mix too.

[Young Drachma]

40-year old Dante Waters becomes the 4th head coach in Tigers history. Will he be the first to lead them to the post-season?


COACH DETAILS

Dante Waters - Head Coach - Colorado College
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Age: 40
High School: Moreno Valley High School
Hometown: Moreno Valley, CA
Alma Mater: North Carolina State

Current Level: 9
Career Record: 0 - 0

Recruiting: 86
Scouting: 51
Offense: 68
Defense: 86


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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2009 New Orleans Assistant 12 17 8 12 No Postseason
2008 New Orleans Assistant 16 14 11 9 No Postseason
2007 New Orleans Assistant 10 19 7 13 No Postseason
2006 New Orleans Assistant 14 17 10 10 No Postseason
2005 New Orleans Assistant 17 14 13 7 No Postseason
2004 New Orleans Assistant 11 19 10 10 No Postseason
2003 New Orleans Assistant 14 16 12 8 No Postseason
2002 New Orleans Assistant 8 21 5 15 No Postseason
2001 New Orleans Assistant 16 16 10 10 No Postseason
2000 New Orleans Assistant 13 16 8 12 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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No awards won.

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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2010 Hired by Colorado College (Head Coach)
2010 Quit job with New Orleans
2000 Hired by New Orleans (Assistant Coach)

[Young Drachma]

2010:

REGULAR SEASON: 21-11 (13-5), the best season in school history. Lost in the B1G semi-finals to Nebraska.

STATS

COLORADO COLLEGE TIGERS Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Teddy Peters PG 17 17 31.6 21.9 1.8 5.5 6.2 1.1 1.0 2.5 3.0 13.6
Donald Ramos PF 28 16 21.4 14.3 2.7 6.9 1.1 0.4 0.3 1.4 1.8 5.6
Gary Straub PG 32 19 25.1 14.3 1.4 2.2 2.3 1.7 0.1 2.3 2.0 2.8
Lester Scott SG 32 32 28.3 11.7 1.6 4.9 2.6 1.6 0.2 3.5 2.4 5.5
Coy Bell SF 29 25 28.2 10.6 2.3 7.0 2.3 1.1 0.2 2.7 2.2 7.0
Jack Scurry C 32 32 32.2 6.4 2.8 8.6 1.6 0.7 2.4 1.6 2.1 8.2
William Dewitt SG 6 3 12.8 5.5 1.2 2.2 0.2 0.7 0.0 1.0 1.2 0.2
Brian Gibbs SG 31 0 12.5 4.0 0.5 2.0 1.3 0.5 0.2 2.0 1.1 0.2
Matt Evans PF 32 16 24.5 3.3 2.1 4.7 1.3 0.3 2.9 1.0 1.3 2.6
Ken Denney C 1 0 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 -3.0
John Kuntz SF 11 0 5.7 1.6 0.5 1.0 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.5 0.4 2.0
William Marte C 32 0 8.7 1.4 0.8 1.6 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.8 -0.6
Charles Catchings PG 24 0 4.7 1.1 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.5 -0.1
Zachariah Van PG 10 0 2.9 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.4 -1.7


NCAA TOURNAMENT: In his first year with the program, Dante Waters leads the Tigers to their first EVER NCAA tournament appearance. They enter as a six-seed in the South region. Their first match is against North Carolina A&T (27-5) who won the MEAC conference title.

STARTING TEN ROSTER
As I mentioned, each season will play Starting Ten as a way to get immersed around the league to see the best players/teams in college basketball. I've modified the rules in my game, because I'll play to accumulate a cash portfolio based on the points my players generate in the tournament.

I'll select ten players, plus an 11th "bench" player who will be automatically inserted to my roster once my team falls below 10 players -- unless said player is eliminated before he can come off the bench -- it'll make later rounds more interesting.

I decided that I can't take any Colorado College guys in this game, because they'd be the ones I'd be mostly connected to and I know their names. I don't know players from other schools at all, because I haven't paid any attention to the rest of this universe. Alas, no local guys can be picked.

There will be upsets like crazy and I don't know any of these programs in this league, so it should make it fun to see if I can outperform myself year after year.


C Jamaal Stiles, Beckwithurst (8th seed, West)
PG Andrew Vermillion, Vermont (12th seed, East)
SF Joshua Rizo, Oklahoma State (2nd seed, Midwest)
PG Shane Grant, Coastal Carolina (13th seed, East)
SG Alonso Carl, SMU (4th seed, Midwest)
SF Dennis Butler, Nebraska (3rd seed, Midwest)
SF Micah Sullivan, Oregon (8th seed, South)
SF Jeff Ruth, Oklahoma (13th seed, South)
PG Clint Plyler, NC A&T (11th seed, South)
SG Michael Copenhaver, Georgetown (6th seed, West)
BENCH: SG Shannon Morgan, Syracuse (3rd seed, East)

[Young Drachma]

This league is higher scoring than real life, so we'll see higher point values and totals as a result. In my first season, I advanced a 4 seed to the title game, a 3 seed to the Elite 8, two players to the Sweet 16 and the rest lost in the 1st two rounds for a total of 4863 points or a portfolio value of $8,111,484.

We'll be able to see how I do in the future to determine how good this is relative.

[Young Drachma]

I didn't anticipate that Colorado College would be so good in their first year of the dynasty, but we'll picture Dante Waters as a Brad Stevens-like figure who has transformed the program with his engaging personality or more like Keno Davis in his only year at Drake where they had a high seed before losing in the NCAAs.

I have to decide whether after their crazy season that resulted in a title whether Waters will parlay his success to a much better job and leave them to replace him with someone else or if he'll stay and try to build on it.

Meanwhile, I'm just angling to get back to the tournament to see if we can do better with the numbers of picking players than we did last year.

[Young Drachma]

Dante Waters leaves Colorado College after a year and heads to Cincinnati who have a 96 prestige. His top assistant, 34-year old Jarred Rodriguez takes over the program in his stead.

[Young Drachma]

I simmed two years ahead, so now we're in 2013. Beckwithurst and Colorado College are leaving the B1G, after dropping football at both schools and a desire to play with programs closer to their size.

The conference won't replace them this year, but might next year. Here's a short list of the programs that might be considered by conference:


Team List

Team Conference Prestige
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Kansas Big 12 Conference 100
South Carolina Southeastern Conference 100
Syracuse Atlantic Coast Conference 100
Texas A&M Southeastern Conference 100
Villanova Big East Conference 100
Virginia Tech Atlantic Coast Conference 100
Georgetown Big East Conference 99
Memphis American Athletic Conference 99
Cincinnati American Athletic Conference 96
Nebraska Big Ten Conference 96
California Pacific-12 Conference 95
Connecticut American Athletic Conference 94
Colorado Pacific-12 Conference 93
Texas Big 12 Conference 92
Oklahoma State Big 12 Conference 91
Southern Methodist American Athletic Conference 89
Vanderbilt Southeastern Conference 89
Missouri State Missouri Valley Conference 88
Pittsburgh Atlantic Coast Conference 88
Alabama Southeastern Conference 86
La Salle Atlantic 10 Conference 86
Minnesota Big Ten Conference 86
Oregon Pacific-12 Conference 86
St. John's Big East Conference 86
Arizona Pacific-12 Conference 84
Clemson Atlantic Coast Conference 82
Florida Southeastern Conference 82
Georgia Tech Atlantic Coast Conference 82
Kentucky Southeastern Conference 82
Loyola Marymount West Coast Conference 82
Northwestern Big Ten Conference 82
Stanford Pacific-12 Conference 82
Creighton Big East Conference 81
Ohio State Big Ten Conference 81
Florida State Atlantic Coast Conference 80
Saint Mary's West Coast Conference 80
Seton Hall Big East Conference 80
Old Dominion Conference USA 79
Wyoming Big 12 Conference 79

Team Conference Prestige
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Iowa Big Ten Conference 78
Michigan Big Ten Conference 78
Purdue Big Ten Conference 77
San Diego State Mountain West Conference 77
Texas San Antonio Conference USA 77
Central Florida American Athletic Conference 76
Santa Clara West Coast Conference 76
Beckwithurst Big Ten Conference 75
Wichita State Missouri Valley Conference 74
Colorado College Big Ten Conference 73
Colorado State Big 12 Conference 73
Tennessee Southeastern Conference 73
Utah Pacific-12 Conference 73
Miami Atlantic Coast Conference 72
Mississippi Southeastern Conference 72
Temple American Athletic Conference 72
Washington State Pacific-12 Conference 72
Illinois Big Ten Conference 71
Indiana Big Ten Conference 71
Butler Big East Conference 70
Duke Atlantic Coast Conference 70
West Virginia Big 12 Conference 70
George Washington Atlantic 10 Conference 69
Georgia Southeastern Conference 69
Gonzaga Big East Conference 69
Louisville Atlantic Coast Conference 69
Massachusetts Atlantic 10 Conference 69
Wisconsin Big Ten Conference 69
Boston College Atlantic Coast Conference 68
East Carolina American Athletic Conference 68
Oklahoma Big 12 Conference 68
Utah State Mountain West Conference 68
Air Force Mountain West Conference 67
Baylor Big 12 Conference 66
Kansas State Big 12 Conference 66
Marquette Big East Conference 66
Maryland Big Ten Conference 66
Virginia Atlantic Coast Conference 66
Xavier Big East Conference 66
DePaul Big East Conference 65

[Young Drachma]

Colorado College is moving to the Summit League, where Denver is already a member.

Beckwithurst is being relocated to Kentucky, because I feel like it. They're now going to play in the Southern Conference.

[Young Drachma]

Gonna break up the Big 12, because I can next season. Going to create the Pac-16, move two teams ot the SEC somehow and probably shuffle the ACC to boot. I didn't sim 2013, so now I'm going to pick my Starting Ten team for March Madness again and see if I can do better than I did in 2010.

[Young Drachma]

Decided to just play Starting Five, because inserting ten players (well 11) was tedious. I then nuked the last six guys from my last season and readjusted my portfolio to $4,652,052 (2789 pts) by using only Butler, Vermillion, Rizzo, Grant, & Carl.

Now we're in 2013, I don't really know anyone in this league and we're gonna see if we can't make a bit of magic happen.

My Starting Five roster:


Trenton Bradley, (#4 seed, Wyoming) - nation's leading scorer with 28.6 PPG
Omar Wu (#5 seed, Georgetown) - nation's 8th leading scorer (25.2 PPG)
Sebastian Puleo (#10 seed CSU-Bakersfield) - (WAC's 5th leading scorer at 16.4 PPG)
Gabriel Mota (#9 Wichita State) - (Leading scorer for the Shockers at 18.5 PPG)
Murray Ladner (#6 South Carolina) - (SEc's 7th leading scorer)

Playing with five is a lot more fun and challenging especially when playing alone. There are risks I was going to take with ten players that with five, I simply can't.

We'll see how this goes.

[Young Drachma]

FIRST ROUND
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4) Wyoming 102, St. Joe's 75 (Trenton Bradley 36 pts)
5) Georgetown 80, Kentucky 49 (Omar Wu, 30 pts)
Villanova 80, 10) CSU-Bakersfield (Sebastian Puleo, 10 pts)
6) South Carolina 84, VCU 75 (Murray Ladner, 16 pts)
Memphis 69, 9) Wichita State 64 (Garrett Mota, 16 pts)

SECOND ROUND
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5) Beckwithurst 77, 4) Wyoming 70 (Trent Bradley, 34 pts.)
Beckwithurst is led by Coy Ocampo, a walkon who is from Lovell, Wyoming...making this game even more heartbreaking for the Pokes.
4) Iowa 75, 5) Georgetown 74 (Omar Wu, 13 pts)
6) South Carolina 84, Mississippi Valley State 73 (Murray Ladner ,19 pts.)

SWEET 16
6) South Carolina 87, 7) Louisiana Tech 71 (Murray Ladner, 27 pts)

ELITE 8
6) South Carolina 88, 4) Iowa 80 (Murray Ladner, 24 pts)

FINAL FOUR
9) Minnesota 90, 6) South Carolina 80 (Murray Ladner 18 pts)

Thanks to South Carolina's Final Four run and Murray Ladner's performance, I managed to narrow beat out my score from 2010 by scoring 2834 ($4,727,112) in the 2013 tournament.

I think what we'll do, is every $10 million I earn, we'll "donate" to a program of our choice in the hopes of upgrading their program/facilities to get them into the big time. Then we'll follow that program and see if the cash infusion (aka, increase in prestige and hiring them a big-time coach or star assistant) has improved them at all.