Let's try this again, shall we?
The last post of my Pack Line story explains why Pack Line II came to be.
Most of the ideas behind the story are the same as last time, so I'll quote from the first post of my previous thread:
"I became a Virginia basketball fan when I was in the third grade. A family visit to Thomas Jefferson's home and to the university he founded sealed my fate. My undergraduate and graduate alma maters play Division III basketball, so I could maintain my loyalty to the Cavaliers through my own student days. And I live in Virginia now, so it's even more natural to follow my adopted team. I've turned my daughter into a Hoos fan too, much to the amusement of her mom.
That's the motivation for the story I'm going to try to tell here.
"My character will base his coaching philosophies on those of Coaches Dick and Tony Bennett. He'll begin his career at age 35..."
But, this time he won't be starting out at Green Bay. The Phoenix have an average academic reputation (C), and in DDS: CB, these reputations don't change. I want to coach in a program where academics are a priority.
"My goal is to one day coach at Virginia, where [Dick's] son is currently adding to the family legacy. My coach's path along the way might take varied twists and turns, but Charlottesville will be his dream destination."
That aspiration remains the same. However, my coach must only take jobs at schools with academic reputations of B+ or better. Virginia's is A-, one of about forty programs at that level or higher.
"The Bennetts are known for their tenacious Pack Line defense. Father created it, and son won a national championship with it. I'll be running a man-to-man defense with my teams, the closest I can come to recreating the Pack Line in DDS:CB. They'll primarily run a motion offense; the blocker-mover offense the Bennetts have employed is that type of offense."
My coaching philosophies won't change, either.
I enjoyed starting at Green Bay, and I'm going to begin this story with a team that is roughly equivalent in terms of prestige.
There are 24 schools with prestige between 14 and 39 and academic rankings of B+ or better.
Code:
SCHOOL CONFERENCE PR AC
Northeastern Colonial Athletic Assoc. 39 A
Harvard Ivy League 37 A+
Yale Ivy League 36 A+
Pennsylvania Ivy League 36 A+
Bucknell Patriot League 35 B+
Miami (OH) Mid-American Conference 32 B+
Air Force Mountain West Conference 30 B+
Santa Clara West Coast Conference 29 B+
Boston Univ. Patriot League 28 A-
Furman Southern Conference 27 A-
Holy Cross Patriot League 26 A-
Fairfield Metro Atlantic Conference 23 B+
Colgate Patriot League 23 A-
William & Mary Colonial Athletic Assoc. 22 A-
Rice Conference USA 22 A+
Brown Ivy League 19 A
Fordham Atlantic 10 Conference 18 B+
Cornell Ivy League 18 A
Columbia Ivy League 18 A+
Marist Metro Athletic 16 B+
Loyola (MD) Patriot League 16 B+
Cal Poly Big West Conference 15 B+
Lafayette Patriot League 15 B+
Dartmouth Ivy League 14 A
I let a random number generator choose where our story begin. It picked #3, so it looks like Coach Ryan Bellamy is on his way to
Yale!
