American - 2014
 

Time to set up those recruiting boards, do custom schedules, redshirt players.

Let me know what out of conference teams you'd like me to try to get on your schedule.

My opponent wish list in order of preference:

Indiana
Florida
Florida St.
Navy
Ole Miss

-- If possible, I would like my home games with these teams to take place after week 5, and as many away games as possible before that. I'll do my recruiting and redshirting tomorrow morning after I drop off my boy.

Probably an unnecessary reminder, but you can only recruit 2-stars or below.
:)

Outer Banks has the recruiting board and red shirts setup. Below are some good out of conference games to setup:

Memphis
Kansas
Virginia
Air Force
Colorado

EF27--Any requests?

I'm doing my recruiting now and will look. I know I'd like to try to beat up on UCLA. Other than that, I need to look at what teams make sense. Will let you know in a few.

UCLA
UNC
NC State
Rutgers
Navy
Air Force

I'd like home games after week 5 as well please with road games early.

Thanks!

Asheville is set to advance :)

It's not giving me many options that you asked for. Florida, FSU, Navy, and Ole Miss are not available any week. I did get Indiana.

Week 3 at Indiana
Week 7 vs. Texas Tech
Week 8 vs. Houston

Week 2 at Virginia
Week 3 vs. Kansas
Week 5 vs. Colorado

UCLA, UNC, Rutgers, and Air Force were never available. Also, you have in conference games in weeks 1-8, including home games in weeks 1-5, so you're very front-loaded.

Week 10 at Navy
Week 11 vs. NC State
Week 12 at Wake Forest

Week 1 - Deadline is 11/27 (Fri) at 11 p.m. EST
 

We're on to season 2!

Week 1 Matchups
Vicksburg at Asheville
North Plainfield at Fairbanks

I was doing really good against Vicksburg and my controller died. I switched to my wired controller and had no idea that would force it to go to the title screen :(

I was up 14-10 and driving. Oh well. I'll play them tomorrow morning (and start with my wired controller.)

It is very interesting. My WR's can't catch it reliably for anything. I'm designing my play calling around my TE, which I have never done before. He is by far my most reliable set of hands catching it.

Edit to add: When it died, he had just caught a 44 yard pass and had 6 catches for 120 yards and a TD.

Ugh. 1st play of the replay - My QB underthrows the TE for an easy interception. We get them into 4 and 1 from the 2, but Stokes runs it in. Down 7-0 early.

We respond with a nice balanced drive that ends with a 1 yard TD run. Our TE was our top receiver on the drive. 7-7 game.

The first game I was doing a surprisingly good job of slowing up their run game. This time, they are running all over me. They run the ball 9 times in a row ending in a TD run by their QB. Down 14-7 as the 1st ends.

My usually reliable TE and WR's drop passes and we go 3 and out. Our defense is in trouble now as they are tired...

They move the ball at will with the option run game. Down 21-7.

We are driving down the field but Colvin underthrows a pass and it is picked off by their MLB in the redzone. Sheesh.

Also, we lose our TOP HB for most of the year with a back injury. This is brutal.

Only good news is that we were working the clock so they don't have time to score after the pick. Still, we had a good chance to be only down 21-14 if Colvin had just thrown that pass on the money.

21-7 at half.

We get them into 3rd and 5 to start the half and their HB bowls over 2 of my guys for a 6 yard run.

We force a 3rd and 8 but Stokes finds his HB for a 12 yard pass reception.

We finally get a stop at the 29 and they make the long FG to make it 24-7.

A balanced drive ends with a 1 yard TD pass to our TE. 24-14.

We somehow force a quick punt! Woo! Stokes broke 2 tackles and I thought for sure he was going to scramble on 3rd and 5 but he threw it wildly instead.

Tucker with a big punt return to give us a short field...

Gandy, our TE, drops 2 passes that would have gotten us a 1st and we have to settle for a long FG which our kicker makes. 24-17.

They run a lot of clock and then kick a FG with 1:30 left. Down 27-17.

Our WR's drop 2 passes and Gandy drops 2 more. We go 4 and out. Game over.

We lose 27-17.

Last Game Gandy had 6 catches for 120 yards and a TD before halftime. This time, he could only get 8 catches for 97 yards and a TD. He also had 4 official drops, although I think he had a few more.

Their option running attack was just too athletic for our slow guys to stop.

We're done recruiting.

We're gambling heavily this year, going with only 6 offensive linemen. Trying to redshirt my entire freshman batch of OL so I can hopefully ride them for 4 seasons and end up making some noise.

Week 2 - Deadline is 11/30 (Mon) at 11 p.m. EST
 

Week 1 Results

Vicksburg 27, Asheville 17
Fairbanks 42, North Plainfield 35

Week 2 Matchups

FCS West (0-0) at #24 Tucker (0-0)
Vicksburg (1-0) at Fairbanks (1-0)
Outer Banks (0-0) at Virginia (0-1)
North Plainfield (0-1) at Asheville (0-1)
FCS Northwest (0-0) at Chesapeake (0-0)
FCS Northwest (0-0) at Frederick (0-0)

Against the Plague, our receivers kept dropping it but Gandy was very reliable in amassing 17 catches for 191 yards and 2 TD's. Furthermore, our defense played a great game as we forced Conti into bad throws and we even overcame 2 interceptions by our QB and drove down the field for a last second TD to win it 28-21!

Week 3 - Deadline is 12/4 (Fri) at 11 p.m. EST
 

Week 2 Results

Asheville 28, North Plainfield 21
Outer Banks 49, Virginia 24
Vicksburg 31, Fairbanks 26

Week 3 Matchups

Western Kentucky (1-1) at #24 Tucker (1-0)
Kansas (1-0) at Outer Banks (1-0)
Chesapeake (1-0) at Asheville (1-1)
Orlando (0-0) at Indiana (1-0) Go Hoosiers!
Rochester (0-0) at Fairbanks (1-1)
Frederick (1-0) at Utah (2-0)

Go Hoosiers he says. Finally getting our first game of the year is nice. We're ready to roll. I'll probably play it tomorrow.

Colvin had a REALLY rough game with 4 picks. Despite that, we were within a touchdown and a chance to score in the 4th. However, the 4th pick was a pick 6 and that was too much to overcome. We lose 49-35 to Chesapeake.

After a battle with the Norovirus, I am on the road to recovery and should have a chance to get my game in tonight.

Got my game in a couple days later than hoped, but it was worth the wait. Held Indiana's 99 OVR offense to 240 total yards and beat them soundly, 35-14. Was almost able to stretch it to 42-14, but time ran out on me at their 5 yard line as I tried to score one last time. We pretty much did what we wanted in this one, except I made one mistake passing when I made a terrible throw against underneath coverage on a hook route. Overall it was a breeze of a game.

If the defense can play like this for the in-conference games we could win 10 with this squad.

Rochester starts the season with a nice 21-17 win in Fairbanks.

Week 4 - Deadline is 12/14 (Mon) at 11 p.m. EST
 

Week 3 Results

Tucker 35, WKU 28
Outer Banks 51, Kansas 20
Rochester 21, Fairbanks 17
Orlando 35, Indiana 14
Chesapeake 49, Asheville 35
Frederick 24, Utah 17


Week 4 Matchups

Vicksburg (3-0) at #17 Clemson (1-0)
Chesapeake (2-0) at Fairbanks (1-2)
Washington State (1-1) at Frederick (2-0)
Rochester (1-0) at Asheville (1-2)
WKU (1-2) at North Plainfield (1-2)

Hey EF: What times are good for you? I can schedule Tuesday night or some other night during the week.

I can probably do Tuesday night after 9. Other nights that are good are Wednesday or Thursday. I am also off during day Monday and Thursday which are best times for me.

So far, it looks like Wednesday night around 9:30 works best for me.

I had a family thing come up. Tuesday night is out for me as a result. Wednesday night should be good.

My recruiting is done.

Still on for 9:30 tonight?

I think I might need to start at 10 PM instead. Got stick with a few things I didn't anticipate. Is that too late for you?

Nah, that can work.

Ugh. There is a local internet outage. Not expected to be fixed until 1 am per Comcast. (Posting on my iPad)

Okay. Ill-fated tonight. Tomorrow night? Saturday morning?

Tomorrow night around 9:30?

On further review, tonight doesn't work so well for me. We can push it to some night next week. Or I can do early in the morning (7ish) on Saturday.

Ok. I can't do Saturday morning. I have my wife's Christmas party Friday night and we are hosting a party Saturday night for my staff. We'll figure out a time next week.

Actually, it turns out that tonight can work, if you're still up for it. My wife has a party to go to, so if I can get done putting the kids to bed by 9:30, I can play.

See you at 9:30 tonight! :)

Easy way to put the kids to sleep early: CO

Who wants to be Daddy's cheerleader?!?

We decorated the tree tonight and Mary didn't want to stop reading the Bible... hard to push her on that. I might be a few minutes after 9:30 but not too many. Getting her to bed now.

No problem.

Sorry, my console keeps freezing as I'm loading the dynasty.

No problem. Hope it works soon.

Me too. Last time, it got to 91% before freezing.

Ugh. 86%. I wonder if you can just challenge me without me loading it all the way?

I did send you a challenge... want me to exit and resend it?

Well, that was painful, but looks like we're in.

Kodos and I had a good game that was tight early, but we got a few good breaks and I think we rattled his QB. That helped us have a strong 2nd half for a 38-14 win.