So I got this idea from a real life baseball MP league on here and thought it was a really neat concept. JetsIn06 started a thread called
Mastering the GUBA-verse An online OOTP Dynasty and I figured what the heck. I can follow suit. It was a good read, so I might as well go for it.
So this is going to be my own musings in an online FBCB2010 league that a lot of FOFC'ERS are actually in. Now sure how much ill be updating this because I am sure you are asking by now won't others be able to tell what you are doing? It’s honestly a pretty laid back friendly league so yes and no, but I’m doing it Just for fun (my job slows way down in the summers and this will give me something to do in the day time). If some of our wiley FOFC vets read this (I will introduce them all here shortly), that’s fine, I just won’t put everything i'm doing out there right away or something like that.
Alas let’s get into this thing.
I was pretty excited when the league started as Murrayyyyy (the commish) developed a league with FBCB that got me interested. You see I had never done a fbcb league before because DC, YoungDrachma or Ron (whatever you know him by here at FOFC) ruined most of my online leagues with his fast sim concept of OOTP on the boards here at FOFC. With fast sim you basically turn out a season within weeks instead of a season in game taking a few months in real life. I got addicted to seeing guys develop and turn into hall of famers and all the discussions and friendships that formed because of it. So MP leagues that weren’t fast sim didn’t appeal to me anymore.
Then along came Murrayyyy with the concept of starting college basketball in 1953 and all the neat things associated with it. Team names were different, Conference Alignments were different, the Logos were weird and cool all at the same time. While the speed isn’t what I would like, its fast enough, and immediately I was hooked.
As a matter of fact the first piece I wrote for the league was a recruiting piece in order to entice people to sign up.
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The year was 2015. The college basketball history books have been written. Gone were the days of Wooden and UCLA, the old glory days of Rupp and Kentucky, and the Brillance of Phog Allen in Kansas. Now, you have the one and done’s with Calipari, the game being played above the rim with many teams running and gunning, and what many people see as the decline of fundamental basketball. Is Duke and Coach K the new way to play the game? Is Tom Izzo and Michigan State the model for how coaches should be building their teams? Is John Calipari good for College basketball? On top of those basketball related questions, has the commercialization ruined amateur athletics? I don’t know about all of you, but those questions are enough to make my head spin.
But what if I told you there was a way we could return to a time where the game and its history could be re-written? Want to play as the St. Bonaventure Brown Indians in the Western New York Little Three Conference? Or how about the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys of the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association? Or maybe you want to try your luck within the Atlantic Coast Conference (with only 8 teams) as Wake Forest? Have you even heard of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute Tigers? Want to try and make them the powerhouse of the Southeastern Conference? There are plenty of teams and storylines to be had, followed, changed and wrote about.
Just imagine if Wooden and the greatest dynasty college basketball has ever seen didn’t happen. What if there was no early entry to the draft and every player graduated from college? How about if Tobacco Road was never important in the basketball landscape? Other than the Ivy Group, what if there were no academic standards? What if Philly and the Big 5 turned into the basketball Mecca of the world?
Enter Murrayyyyy and his vision for a way to rewrite the college basketball history books using Fast Break College Basketball 2010. All the authentic team names and logos. All the conference alignments as it was back in the day with both team and conference movements that occur as they did back then.
NCAA 53 is an opportunity to take the reins of your favorite college basketball program at a time where the NCAA was just starting to get into its groove. Thanks to a win by the CCNY Beavers who won both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in 1950, the NCAA orchestrated a shift in the basketball landscape the following year. Teams would no longer be eligible to play in both tournaments. The spotlight that had always been shone on the NIT and New York were now going to be shut off. Sunny California and the West were going to have their time to shine. Will this shift happen in NCAA 53? Will you let it?
Come on over and check us out. Plenty of spots available with both inexperienced FBCB players and vets alike. Play around and have some fun in a league where every single recruiting action and every single coaching action has a ripple effect on the college landscape. Come rewrite the history books and change everything you have ever hated about college basketball. Do you have the guts to make New York University Violets the next Duke? Do you have what it takes to become the next John Thompson or Pete Carril?
Come show us what you got!
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The second thing that I thought was neat about the league was the fact that when Murrayyyy announced the league on the boards here a lot of guys who were on the beta team for any of Brian's Fast Break series were saying they were interested. I then started to PM some people privately (sorry if I bugged anybody that is reading this now) an invited them to join the league.
For me, playing in a league where some original guys that have helped make the game what it is was, was also a very cool thing. We have about 30 coaches at the moment, with some of the guys having 2 and 3 teams and some sticking to just one.
When I signed up I took USC because there was another human that took California and with the PCC- (The Pacific Coast Conf) only having 9 teams I was hoping that league would fill up first and fast. And that is exactly what occurred.