View Full Version : From Coaching to Managing the Coaching- FBCB AD Dynasty
So I have been playing around with wanting to do an interactive dynasty where there are some of us being the athletic director for schools within the FBCB universe.
I started this concept a while ago here (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=80840&highlight=IAAUS), but burnt myself out trying to be the entire AD for the entire conf. it got pretty big, and overall it was just too much to handle.
Before I can even get to that point of anything interactive, I figured I would start a solo version first and flush out the kinks.
Instead of being the AD for an entire conf, I am going to be the AD for one school and if we start winning, ill add more teams later.
The team I'm starting with is Maryland Eastern Shore and this is what the Universe looks like.
We have full conference movement on, and only The big tourney and the NIT and that's it. Gonna have to win to make it to anything in this universe.
Not sure the format or all the rules for how I am going to hire coaches, but when I get to that point ill figure it out.
We are using Britrocks file for the start, so the Prestiges of the schools are more in line with where I think they should be. Shout out to Brit for the hard work and for letting us have his hard work on the files.
Head Coach firing is off, don't want the AI doing my work for me, but I have job offers on so that I can let guys go who realistically would move on.
Our first coach is Gino Hoelscher. He looks to be ok. Decent recruiting for being 26 and is a level 4. My expectations for him aren't all that high. Gonna give the man a few years I think until he can bring his own guys into the fold. The roster is pretty darn crappy, but that is what you expect when you are at a school with a prestige of 8.
We go 5-24 and 3-13 in the conf. Good for last place. Again not expecting much for a while so no big deal here.
Around the league. Arizona, Texas A&M, Villanova, and Michigan were the final 4 this year. Not teams that are surprising to me, but the seeds were.
Arizona was a 1 seed, Michigan was a 7, Nova was a 2 and Texas A&M was a 10 seed.
So of course Michigan and Texas A&M made the title game right. Michigan brings home the first title in the Universe with a 74-62 win.
Our Freshman Center Scott Masters was named to the freshman team. He had terrible stats, and isn't even worth showing or writing more about.
lol this isn't good, and not exactly getting me excited about where we are headed here.
Not sure I like full conference movement on, that might be changing here soon and be placed back to limited.
But here are the level 5 conference changes.
collegesportsfanms
04-12-2015, 06:31 PM
Good stuff! Having a few interactive dynasties going myself, I like what you're doing with this. If you ever get to the point where you take on being an AD for some FOFC coaches, I'm in.
With my interactive coaching dynasty I'm just letting the computer decide when to fire coaches, and running job offers by everybody, so yours will be different than mine, but I loved your first one. Might even go back and reread it again!
lol and the 2nd year we end up going 3-26 and 1-16 in the conf. Last place again!
Moving on up in the correct direction I see.
Iowa beat the Louisville 93-90 in a high scoring title game.
Nothing to note with our sorry squad and im not going to waste the pictures until we get something of note.
Recruiting came in at 318 good for 3rd to last in the conf.
I think its going to be a while before we even sniff respectable
Conf movement still seems a bit high. but ill still keep it on for the time being.
Here are the 5 level conf changes.
I hate seeing St. Johns go down a level.
Good stuff! Having a few interactive dynasties going myself, I like what you're doing with this. If you ever get to the point where you take on being an AD for some FOFC coaches, I'm in.
With my interactive coaching dynasty I'm just letting the computer decide when to fire coaches, and running job offers by everybody, so yours will be different than mine, but I loved your first one. Might even go back and reread it again!
Ill get there at some point and ill make sure I let ya know. I saw your coaching one, but this would be different. So I think we would be good there. Id like to have a few mini games within the game as well, but im still a bit from all that stuff
We go 6-24 and 5-11 in conference. Good for 2nd to last place. Still bringing up the rear here.
Villanova destroyed Kansas State in the title game. 104-54. Not exciting, but happy we have had all different champs so far.
Recruiting clearly got better this year, so there might be some hope. If any of the guys look decent ill highlight them
David here looks good, but a pass point guard can only do so much. We still have nothing on the roster that is gonna get us anywhere to where we would like to be.
Level 5 Conference moves.
Ohhhhhh Indiana. Better step your game up guys. Getting demoted doesn't look well on that fan base!
We go 7-23 and 5-11 in the conf. Good for 2nd to last place.
Starting to get a little bit annoyed with where we are and not a lot to look forward to.
Ill wait to see what recruiting looked like before offering up more commentary here.
Recruiting comes in at 322. Good for 10th out of 13.
I cant in good conscience keep this farce going can I?
Ill give him this year, but Gino needs to show me something because I cant looking at what he is doing and keep him around. 21-97 is blaaaahhhhhh
8-23 and 6-10 in conf. a minor improvement, but come on. That's all we got?
Recruiting? 344 dead last in the conf.
Gino time has just ended.
Maryland Eastern Shore will have a new coach next year
Rules to find a new head coach.
1. If they have a bigger budget and prestige then head coaches are off limits. At some point i'm sure this might change and we will have to come up with a solution but for the time being that will work at a lower rated school.
2. Assistants are fair game anywhere, however needs to be realistic. For example my coach level was 4 when I fired him. I cant take Louisville's recruiting coordinator that is level 11. He should be able to get a better job with that.
After a long search process We have Landed Travis Francisco
We love that Travis has had some big boy experience at LSU and UCONN. We also love that he has been to the tournament the past 4 years at multiple different stops.
We are hoping his level of recruiting will be able to help land us the DMV kids that can actually play some ball unlike Geno. We also like that he seems to be able to develop his guys and his 36, 84 ratings in offense and defense look good to me.
Travis has his work cut out for him but we are hopeful he can get us moving forward on the correct path.
WELCOME Aboard Travis!!!
Might have to give Travis more time than I normally would. When I fired Geno, 3 guys transferred out, and of course I forgot to put the CPU back in control of everything so instead of him trying to land transfers, he now gets to start his first season trying to land 6 guys with offers with no budget. Should be fun for him this year!
We finish the season 2-27 and 1-15 in conf. Just a freaking ever loving disaster.
Not the way I wanted Travis to start, but that's part my fault.
Travis lands the 202 best class which is good for 5th in the conf. I'm not blown away as he did land 6 kids, but I doubt there is much quality. Next season should be more of a judge on where he might be able to recruit.
I don't mind his recruiting class at all though. He landed a 7'2 guy who will hopefully develop into a hell of a rebounder. I think it was a decent start to his tenure here actually. Im kinda excited here
Roster after TC looks like this
We finish up 5-24 and 4-12 in conf. Last place again. Losing is getting old real quick, but im hoping that he has another decent class coming in here.
He lands the 275 class which is good enough for 6th place and smack right in the middle of the conf. I like where we are headed at the moment. 2 decent classes in a row and who knows in three years we might be able to win 16 games.
Gonna stop here for the night.
Roster still doesn't look all that great, but we are better than we were with these last 2 classes so hoping for continued progress this year.
In looking at the depth chart. 7'3 Center Charles Smith needs to get more mins. I know Andrew Davis is good down there, but no too many teams can boast a 7'3 guy. He is like 11th on the chart.
We end up going 6-23 and 5-11 in conf. That puts us tied for last place with North Carolina A&T. 6 wins though is one more than last year, so hey its progress right?
Our Prestige is currently a whopping 3, next up the ladder is Farleigh Dickenson with 10. We still have a ways to go here to even start to compete here.
Dont look now but Travis just landed the 2nd best recruiting class in the conf. Granted its only 2 kids but the kids are talented. That makes me smile, as it gives me some confidence that I did make the correct call when hiring Travis from LSU.
Slowly but surely I think we will keep improving within this conf.
Carl Johnson here looks like a solid guy that is going to come in and play right away. He can shoot, handle the ball, and is athletic. I really like the kid. He has the ratings to come in and play right away.
Boston College drops from the ACC and is replaced by Hofstra.
only real team of note that got flagged in my brain as far as changing conf goes.
We still have nobody with multiple titles so no real dynasties in the universe yet. I like it. NOVA, DUKE, UCLA, and LOUISVILLE all have been to 3 final 4's but only have gotten the job done once.
I like our starting 5. I still wish Travis would get Charles Smith some more mins so he could develop more, but he is running the show here. Not gonna override him and what he is doing.
Freshman Carl Johnson I think is going to take the conf by storm, so im really hoping we take a huge step in conf this year.
We go 7-23 and 5-11 in conf. Another minor uptick in wins this year.
Recruiting comes in at 185 which is good for 4th in the conf. Still like the way we are heading. Hoping the wins are going to start to come in shortly.
Again I think we go 7 deep, and they are decent. Still don't have enough depth yet, but I think we can continue to improve. I would love to see a 500 season, but still might be a year away. Carl Johnson looks to be a beast this year after averaging 10 points a game last year as a freshman.
So im kinda shell shocked at the moment. So its a Friday, and im stuck at home doing another damn grad school group project, and i'm not paying attention to the sim. I know we aren't good, so I have it go through the entire season and then ill pick it up do some updates and ill repeat right.
So This year we end up going 7-22 and 6-10 in the conf. That was good for a 4 way tie for 2nd to last place. Im happy about that. Win one more game and we are 9th place and 2 more games and we would be in 6th. You know the kind of improvement that we are striving for. But with 7 wins that was another improvement in wins and I cant complain about that at all.
What shocked the hell out of me was when I looked at the game I was 12-23 overall. I immediately went to the conf tourney and we won 4 straight games. We were the 11th seed, and we ended up beating the 6,3,7 and 8 seeds. We just lucked the hell out into the NCAA tourney. the 1 and 4 seeds go down before we get to them and the stars aligned.
that however wasn't enough though. We ended up playing Seattle in the play in game and when I look at their record it was just as terrible as ours was.
We actually won that game as well, by a stinking point. We not only made the tourney, but won a game in it!
How fun was that for a team that blows pretty bad.
Our stud PG Carl Johnson came up huge for us. 17 points, 5 board, 4 assists with only 1 turnover.
It was a nice magical season that I didn't even know was occurring. lol
Forgot to note in the last post. the number 1 seed Marquette blew by us by 35 the game after.
Syracuse beat UCONN in a terrible title game 80-48.
Hopefully for us recruiting was good, and we can use this years ncaa squad (I cant even say that with a straight face) to build on and improve the teams prestige.
Recruiting game in a 194 which put us in 3rd place in the conf. First time we landed two 3 star kids. So there is more reason to continue to be excited about the rebuild Travis is doing here.
Travis has been here 5 years now and everybody on the roster is now his.
Our Prestige has gone from 3 to 13 which ties us for 2nd worst in the conf. I will take a 10 point jump anyday though.
Overall Travis is 32-120 for a win % of 21. lol terrible, but im still sticking with him. Hoping he can pull some better guys recruiting wise with the prestige upgrade.
I have no idea what to expect this year but center Charles Smith grew another inch and will now be holding down the starting spot in the post at 7'4.
We don't have a lot of depth, but we do present what I think are some match up problems. Obviously with Charles there, and Carl Johnson.
While I don't think another tourney run will happen, I really would like to see us get to the 5-6 spot and I think that can be do-able.
We end up going 10-20 and 6-10 in the conf. That's good enough for a 3 way tie for 2nd to last place.
I'm starting to have some doubts about Travis and his ability to get us over the hump. We are on the cusp of being in the middle of the league, but still cant seem to get there
and just as I post that Travis lands the 83rd class in the nation. First in the conf and highlighted by Charles Hardaway, 112 ranked recruit in the nation.
If we can build around Charles here, just maybe that hump comes sooner rather than later.
I will say im starting to get a tad bit impatient as the AD.
Not expecting a whole lot this year. I would love to report that we should take a step forward but im not expecting it.
Hardaway starts at Center and Carl Johnson moves to SG this year. Other than those 2 we don't have a whole lot. Just a bunch of role players. Maybe they will gel together and do something but im not optimistic at this point
Young Drachma
04-17-2015, 08:49 PM
Sweet.
I actually thought we did it again, but fell one game short.
We finish up the season at 15-18 and 8-8 in the conf. We lost in the title game to a lower ranked Faileigh Dickenson team 72-65 which is kind of ball busting.
We beat number 2 seed Elon by 11, but cant handle the 9 seed.
We missed a huge opportunity to take a GIANT leap forward there.
Ohhhh well. Senior Carl Johnson was named 1st team all conf and as expected Hardaway earned all freshman honors
UGGGHHHHHHH
Travis shits the bed with recruiting this year, and lands the 321st class. Good for 3rd to last in the conf. One guy looks to be decent, but the rest of scrubs.
I'm afraid unless Travis can start to pull some miracles his time is going to start to run short here at UMES
Carl Jonson becomes the best player in the history of UMES basketball.
Finishes up his career first in points with 1591, and 9th overall in the history of the MEAC.
9th overall in rebound with 401
2nd overall in offensive rebound with 195
2nd overll in assists with 310
6th overall in steals with 71
91st in overall blocks with 22
1st in FGM made with 499
2nd in free throws with 285
1st in 3 pointers with 308
Take a bow buddy. You earned your place in the ring of fame
Besides Hardaway in the post we have nobody, and I mean nobody but role players.
He has the potential to be an unreal player by the time he graduates. How he landed at UMES I will never know. but ya not expecting a much this year either.
Another small step forward again this year. We end up going 11-18 and then 9-7 in the conf. I guess I should just be a tad bit more patient with Travis as we continue to tick upwards win wise. its not huge strides, but with a bottom feeder of a team to begin with, why would there be expectations right?
One of our Senior role players made 2nd team all conf because he could rebound. Averaged 10.8 a game.
Hardaway put up 13.4 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.8 blocks a game this year.
We end up with the 288th class in the league this year. good for 3rd to last.
This is where my brian keeps going. that's 2 classes in a row that are downright terrible. Should I get rid of travis now so the other guy has a chance at a rebuild or should I just keep having faith in travis because he has brought us out of the hole, but doesn't look like we are going to be able to sustain that.
Our starting 4 aren't that bad, and Hardaway is just a stud, so who knows maybe we will be mid pack this year. 9-7 last year was the best we have ever done in the conf, and I know we have had better and more talented teams in the past. Who knows, maybe the conf is getting worse overall which would let us climb a bit. Still not expecting much in terms of what we could accomplish this year
This might be our year. Holy cow am I impressed. We go 16-13 and 10-6 in the conf which is good for 2nd place.
Our first conf tourney game is against 10 seed Bethune Cookman and we beat them by 10 to move on.
Second game is against 7 seed Arkansas Pine Bluff and we beat them 74-56
Third game is against NC A&T an we blow them out 60-92.
So in the championship game we get
holy crap. We just made the tourney and I didn't even know it. I thought there were 4 tourney games. Typicaly there are but since we were the 2 seed we got a buy.
Shows you how much we have lost over the years that I jus expect to play 4 games if we make it that far.
Real nice surprise though. We breezed though that tourney. Fun to see
We are the 14 seed (wow not even a 16) and we face off against 3 seed Seton Hall.
As I look over the Hall's roster, we have 0 chance to do this. They have blues and greens littered throughout and we have Hardaway who is a green. Not much else from our side.
As expected we lose 65-51.
We shot TERRIBLE with a field goal % of .262. UGHHHHHH
Hardaway who averages 16 a game goes 2-11 with a grand total of 5 points.
Plenty of Awards to go around this year.
Travis wins head coach of the year in the conf
Hardaway is first teams all conf and conf player of the year
Freshman SG Ronald Nelson gets selected all freshman and was conf freshman of the year.
Nelson has a jumping ability of 93 so he was able to pull down 5.8 boards a game to go along with his 10 points and 2.5 assists. He will be a guy down the road to watch become something special here I think.
Hardaway goes for 15.9 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game. Just a man playing with boys in the MEAC for him. He is a senior next year so we are gonna miss him.
I don't understand where we are here. While Travis has just earned himself some more time coaching this team, I cant for the life of me figure out how he forgot how to freaking recruit.
Out class this year comes in at 337 which is dead last in the conf, and the 6th worst in ALL OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL
WTF is going on in that office they got there.
When I look at what Travis has done in his 9 years though I think its pretty good. Take a look at it for yourself.
His total wins blow, but every year sands 2 he has improved his overall wins, and every year in the conf he either stayed the same or improved.
Besides this string of crappy classes he has done a real nice job I think.
Who knows maybe these classes suck but they are good at one thing and they gel together.
Very High expectations for this year. As you can see from the depth chart we have a stud and the reigning conf player of the year in hardaway. The conf freshman of the year in Nelson and 2 other guys that are rated green.
Not bad at all. Just off colors alone this is our most talented team ever here at UMES.
Almost forgot, while I do have the settings that the CPU will hire its assistants, I brought a new recruiting coordinator in. Well, I kind of take that back, I fired the old one, and the game brought a new one in. Either way I am hoping that helps to fix our freaking recruiting issues.
Another good year for us as we go 18-11 and 10-6 in the conf. Our conf improved leaps and bounds this year so at 10-6 that was only good for 4th place. I'm a bit nervous about making the tourney this year. We have a shot, but the conf is top heavy and this year should have more of the higher seeds with a shot at taking home the conf tourney title and the NCAA berth.
First up for us is the 5 seed Arkansas Pine Bluff. They went 15-15 on the year. We handle them 81-71.
Next up is the one seed Fairfield. They really dominated the conf this year going 15-1 and 22-8 overall. Their only loss was to Bethune Cookman and they only lost by 4. They blew us out both times that we met this year.
So not a good sign at all.
Well we had a good run this year. They beat us 68-58 and that was the closest game we had with them all year.
Few awards- Hardaway 1st team and conf player of the year again.
Nelson- 2nd team all conf.
David Lees- who I haven't highlighted here also made 1st team. Looking over his stats I have no idea why. He averaged 2.4 blocks per game but other than that nothing special at all.
I was hoping that we would reach the 20 win mark this year but it wasn't in the cards. 2 straight 19 win seasons though look awfully good at the moment though and I couldn't be more proud of that.
UMES now has a Prestige of 28 up from 3 when we started the game. That by itself is a nice accomplishment.
Travis picked his shit up this year and brought in the 74th best class in the nation. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!
Charles Hardaway is our first player drafted as he went 47th overall. Speaking of Charles
He is first in school history in points at 1691 (passing former teammate Carl Johnson for the top spot)
1st in rebounds with 948
1st in offensive rebounds with 379
14th in assists with 135
20th in steals with 41
1st in blocks with 290
1st in field goals made
1st in free throws
He is 8th overall in the Meac in points
1st in offensive rebounds
4th in rebounds
4th in blocks
10th in field goals made
1st in free throws made
One hell of a career there. Kind wish I could see what he would be doing in the NBA but ohhh well there.
Rodney Settle is the prized recruit from this class coming in at 169 overall.
Travis also landed a decent JUCO named Errol Charland who has a 75 rating in steals. Both should have big impacts this year I think.
Well it was only a matter of time. Travis Francisco has 16 other schools offering him jobs, including 4 teams in the conf.
I'm gonna weed them out and post here. but UMES will be looking for another head coach because after a cursory look, there are a few schools that look good.
These are the schools that have been narrowed down for Travis services with the best job prestige wise highlighted in the screen shot.
Overall I am torn on where to send him. Realistically, they are all good jobs for him. They all have decent rosters, and I think the Southern Miss job would be the only one he might struggle with, and that's just because I don't see him having the ratings to succeed there.
In the end the best job for him to take is the Texas Tech job. They have the best roster and I believe the best situation. He gets an upgrade in budget by about 80 K, upgrade in Prestige by 9, he is in a recruiting hot bed in Texas, Conf USA isn't exactly a power conf, and with their prestige of 37 they fall in the middle of the conf.
On top of that their freshman class was ranked 50th last year.
UMES bids farewell to Travis and what he was able to do for our little shit hole program, that is no longer the doormat of the MEAC.
He finished up with a record of 106-203 (64-63 the past 4 years) and brought our Prestige from 3 to 28. That puts us as the 4th best school in the MEAC after being the worst. Not bad at all.
Overall I think Travis was a good hire and a good fit for us, and that our first hire in the dynasty was a good one. Right guy for the job, and he is going to hopefully reap those rewards at Tech.
Hopefully we see you in the Dance soon my friend.
So where the hell does that leave us?
I am going to adjust the rules to hiring a head coach. With the beginning of this I said I couldn't poach another head coach.
After seeing the teams that came after travis this year, that has now changed.
I can poach another head coach if the schools prestige is lower than mine but again it has to be realistic.
After an extensive national search and a few rounds of interviews UMES has decided to go with long time Washington assistant Arthur Brown.
Brown is 55 (little on the older side for my taste) and has spent that last 15 seasons at U-DUB
While there he helped guide the Huskies to an overall mark of 306-187. That's an impressive win total there. He has made the NCAA tourney 9 times and the NIT tourney once. That's 10 out of 15 years in a tourney somewhere and that's the kind of success I want to bring over here.
The guy has been successful, but for some reason has never been given his shot. He now gets it and inherits a much better program than when Travis did.
Hopefully he can keep the wins rolling in.
This is a good spot for me to break. I gotta get writing my damn papers for grad school again.
Ill come back when I need a break from that.
Don't have a lot of expectations, as Hardaway graduated and our star power went with him.
Hoping for a 500 season, and for Arthur to bring in a good class here
We end up going 13-16 and 8-8 in the conf. Tied for 7th place. We lost in the first round of the conf tourney.
Nothing much to note this year except that Nelson averaged 19 points a game and made 2nd team all conf.
Our other guard Charles Perez made the first team though. Perez graduates, but Nelson still has another year with us
Arthur Brown comes through. We land the 87th class in the nation and that is good for first in the conf.
Texas tech went 12-20 last year so Travis had a rough year out there. His recruiting was middle of the road in conf usa so that want a bad start for him there.
Roster looks ok. The freshman class looks to be something nice. All three have green potential and Mason at 6'4 will start this year at the point spot.
Hoping to be a little better this year, but we are real young.
A decent season in Arthurs 2nd at the helm. We go 15-14 and 10-6 in the conf, tied for 2nd place.
We play Norfolk state in the first round. We should have pounded them and they end up with the upset by 3 stinking points.
That's disappointing.
Recruiting ranking wise not all that great. 239 good for 6th in the conf. However, as I looked at the guys, its an ok class. they specialize in what they need to be able to do, so they should be ok being role players in the future.
Season wise, again not expecting much. Hoping for another top half finish.
Rodney Settle should take a giant leap forward this year at the SG spot. He was the big recruit 2 years ago and should finally get his chance to start after averaging 10 points last year in the 6th man role
Another Craptastic season. 11-18 and 7-9 in the conf. We once again lose in the first round of the conf tourney and it feels like we are sliding back to where we historically have been.
These recruits need to start to develop, and fast. Cause this crap cant keep going.
Missing Travis at the moment.
Recruiting comes in at 268 which is 4th to last in the conf. The PF that we landed looks to be ok, but the other guy is a scrub that needs to go.
Roster looks like its getting much better. Are we tourney ready? Prob not, but we are improving.
Hoping to get back to being around 10 wins in the conf this year. Settle averged 15 a game last year, maybe 19 this year. We will rely heavy on our guards this year
First time in the history of UMES we finish up first in the conf.
We go 16-14 and 12-4 in the conf. Neat to see that finally happen.
As you can see wit this snapshot we ran this conf. We finish up 1st or 2nd in just about every stat category that I value. Loved seeing that. 25th nationally in turnovers too. Cant be mad at taking care of the ball
So conf tourney time.
We run through the conf like I expected.
First round of the NCAA is number 2 seeded Florida. I was hoping to get seeded higher, but ohh well. They beat us 100-74 and thus ends a good season for us.
Coach Arthur was named conf coach of the year, and Junior PG- Gregory Mason won conf player of the year. Not sure why, but we will take it.
We had the 128th class in the nation. Good for 2nd in the MEAC conf.
With our success though we have been promoted to the Sun Belt Conf. Not sure how well that will play out for us so its time to go check on that
Well as you can see we will be starting from the Bottom of the conf again. Our Prestige which currently sits at 32 is only good for 2nd to last in the conf, so we will have our work cut out for us.
With the conf promotion- I am going to pick up another school to manage. Since we have done so well, and I look to be 2-2 in picking coaches some other schools have noticed little ole UMES and have offered me the job.
The Sun Belt is level 2 Prestige wise, so I am going to bump up and manage a school at the Level 3.
Those conferences would be Big Ten, Mountain West, Ohio Valley, Southern, and Southland.
Gonna once again try and keep it realistic
We decide on UC Davis Aggies.
Historically they are ok. They are 293-293 overall. They have four 20 win seasons and have been to the NCAA 4 times.
This is Travis Johnson's 4 stop as a head coach, and that doesn't exactly sit well with me. Although, honestly he has done an ok job so far. So I am not going to come in here and clean house right away. He has been here 4 years already so everybody on the roster is his so he starts to get judged right away.
They have a decent roster, and his freshman class looks to be good if they develop. So we shall see.
Gonna show some history now
Louiville leads the league wins wise, rounded out by Kansas, Marquette, Duke and UCLA.
Most wins in the NCAA tourney.
Syracuse, UCLA, and Marquette all have 2 titles each
Before we get rolling into the next season, I also wanted to highlight former Coach Travis Francisco who if you remember left UMES to go to Texas Tech in Conf USA. Well im happy to report Travis is doing a wonderful job and in his 4 years there he has led them to a conf promotion to the big east, and been to the NCAA tournament and the NIT tourney each of the past 2 years.
Overall, Im expecting UC Davis to take a nice step forward this year.
UMES should be ok once again with SR and reigining conf player of the year Gregory Mason
UC Davis- 16-13 and 7-9 in conf. 3rd in the East
UMES- 13-15 and 9-9 in conf. 4th place in conf.
UC Davis clinched an NCAA berth which is pretty cool. UMES is actually in the conf title game.
I would be thrilled if they both can do this
THEY DID IT!!!! THEY DID it!!!
Both teams make the NCAA tourney, holy cow this is freaking awesome. Long shots to win the conf tourneys they both exceed expectations. WHOOOOOOOOO
UMES faces 1 seed Pittsburgh in the first round. I don't see us pulling this one off at all.
UC Davis faces 4 Seed Kansas State. State has a better roster but not by much. Hoping they can keep it close here.
Both teams lose by 10 points. I'm more surprised at what UMES did in their game. Good seasons by both teams however. Hopefully both coaches can keep building.
UC Davis pulls in the 38th ranked class. Good for 1st in Ohio Valley. (had 5 kids sign)
UMES pulls in the 62nd ranked class. Also good for 1st place in the Sun belt. (also had 5 guys sign)
Liking where both these teams are going right now
Arthur Brown (UMES) gets bonus points and I put them all towards recruiting. He now has 90 there.
MOTHER TRUCKER
Both Head Coaches get job offers.........
Arthur Brown at UMES- has 3 offers. Maine, UNC Ashville, and Bucknell. Thankfully none are better jobs, all have lower prestige, We get to keep him this round.
Travis Johnson at UC Davis has 4 offers. Washington, Stanford, Idaho, and Arizona State. Before you go wow he has some big time jobs. Washington and Stanford have fallen on some hard times and are in lower conferences than we would expect. Idaho is just ok, but Arizona State is the job he is going to take. They are still in the PAC and have a Prestige of 58 and about 250,000 more of a budget. Do I think he will win there? No but its a better job and one someone in the real world would take. So off he goes.
sigh. Was not planning on having to find a head coach here in year 2. Guess that tourney run last year for Davis wasn't so fun afterall
After and interesting search I decided to hire a Head coach this time and not an assistant.
I decided on Robert Andrews from NJIT. He has compiled an overall record of 51-45 with a team that is well ehhhhh. I liked that. I also like the fact that he was with the CUSE for 5 years making the tourney all 5 years and he has a title to his name. and Ohhh by the way in his 3 years with NJIT, he made the tourney once and the NIT once. All this guy seems to do is win
His ratings are 73,18,69 and 60. Hoping he can come in and keep this team moving forward.
However, the next round of offers has Arthur Brown and his 60 year old butt getting 8 offers. I gotta look through them, but 2 names that stand out to me already are NJIT(not that its good), whos coach I just took for UC Davis, and Texas Tech. I gotta see if my boy Francisco got fired or took another job there
NJIT, Fresno State and Leigh all get told No thanks right from the get go.
That leaves Manhattan, Texas Tech, George Washington, Florida Atlantic, and Alcorn State as possibilities
Travis Francisco has retired. So that's why the Texas Tech job is open. and boy did he retire at the right time. They went 6-25 last season in the Big East and got Demoted back to Conf USA. Didn't want to come back for another beating.
Texas Tech has now been crossed off the list after looking at that craptastic roster
Wagner- Prest of 42 and 305K budget and freshman class 107
GW- Prest of 59 and budget of 338K- class ranked 85th
Florida Atlantic- Prest of 66- Budget of 485K and Class of 41
Alcorn State- Prest of 49- budg of 422k and class of 122
Roster wise Florida Atlantic takes the cake followed up by GW.
GW wants to make the Tourney, Florida Atlantic wants to win the conf title.
Wagner is out.
Alcorn State has the best future with that freshman class after looking at them. GW has such an unbalanced roster that they gotta go.
Down to Florida Atlantic and Alcorn State
In the end, Florida Atlantic it is. Arthur Brown gets his shot at big time basketball in the American Conf. We wish him well
Gotta find me another new coach here.
Comey
04-26-2015, 11:55 AM
We decide on UC Davis Aggies.
Historically they are ok. They are 293-293 overall. They have four 20 win seasons and have been to the NCAA 4 times.
That is the weirdest conference I have ever seen. It's like the NBA made the conference.
In the end we go with an Assistant Coach this time.
Keneth Staley comes over to us from Oklahoma State. All he did there was straight up win making the NCAA tourney 5 out of the 7 years.
He is 34 so I am hoping he sticks with the program a few years here and grows with the team. His ratings are 92,31,23 and 74.
That is the weirdest conference I have ever seen. It's like the NBA made the conference.
Ya lol. In retrospect I shouldn't have been playing with conf movement full blown. Limited should have been the choice. Its getting hard to find teams when trying to look for guys honestly. It doesn't make sense to stop the movement now, so im just gonna keep plugging along and see where everybody ends up.
UMES- should be average this year. Freshman class looks decent
UC Davis- Im expecting to contend this year for the conf. We shall see how it plays out.
2 new coaches, 2 new ERA's. lets see how they do
UC Davis- Finishes up 18-11 (13-3) 2nd place in conf and then of course shits the bed in the conf tourney and loses in the first round.
UMES- real bad year. 7-23 (5-25) Dead Last. Fun year right there. I didn't they were going to be bad. I figured around 500. Very wrong there. Not a good start for Keneth Staley
UC Davis- 74th ranked class. 2nd in conf
UMES- Gets demoted, and brings in the 333rd ranked class. WTF happened there. sigh...... That's not a good start. Didn't win, and a shitty class.
Not expecting much from either teams this year. Davis should be in the middle of the pack, could surprise me and finish top half in the conf.
UMES- still rebuilding. So ya expecting another season like last year
I messed up and simmed past the conf tourneys. I need to figure that out. With 2 teams it gets confusing.
Davis finished up 20-14 (9-7) in conf
UMES- surprised me 15-17 (9-7) in conf.
Seasons to build on I guess.
Davis- 216th ranked class- only 1 good kid there.
UMES- surprised me here with the 64th class. decent guys- nothing special though. In a weaker conf this squad could be decent here in a year or 2 though.
Done for a bit
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