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Being the AD 2: Another FBCB adventure
My first go at this crashed. The good thing in a sense is that I can completely restart this from scratch and customize the dynasty to work for these purposes.
The basic premise of this dynasty is essentially where I serve as the athletic director at schools. I hire the coaches and we assess their performance and the idea is to hire as many successful coaches as possible within the constraints of the individual school's budget and so forth. RESULTS Code:
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03-30-2011, 03:20 AM
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Here's the basic setup:
I'm going to go through the tediousness of editing conferences and then we'll get started from there. I'm not sure what schools I'll add this time, mostly because it's tedious...but I usually like to do it, so suffice to say there will be some. I'll recap all of that in the next post. Then we'll sim ahead 10-20 years and get started. (Can't fix programs if we don't have any history.) Quote:
In the ashes of the Great West, I created one new conference called the Major Collegiate Athletic League (MCAL) or The Major Conference. (Gotta be ambitious....) It's comprised of a few hockey schools and a few independent refugees, coupled with some random schools I just felt like adding: Quote:
Finally, the 12th member of the MAJOR conference is a created school. I usually like to keep my created schools away from real ones, but in this particular dynasty I just won't be creating as many. Great Plains University is our fictional school located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. It'll easily vault to the top of the list of anything to do in that town and the places around it. I added a few random schools to the independent ranks to get them to 10 teams and upped how many games they play against each other to ensure they won't be making the tournament anytime soon. Or at least, that's the idea. The MCAL won't get an automatic bid for ten years, trying to keep it sort of like actual NCAA rules. Helps we're simming past the first 20 years anyway. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-01-2011 at 06:55 PM. |
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03-30-2011, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Ok, so I've simmed through the 1918-19 season. Here are the champions of the NCAA tourney through now.
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Since this is a coaching dynasty, here is the list of all-time winningest coaches at the moment: Code:
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03-30-2011, 06:48 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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School 1: Wyoming Cowboys
The first school we're going to AD at is Wyoming. We'll just begin this adventure with one school and then add others as we go along.
Wyoming has had some success in the past, but hasn't made an NCAA tournament in a while. Here's the past results of the program: Code:
Here's the coach we are firing. He's gotten worse each season he's been here. Code:
His most recent recruiting class was 179th in the country and next to last in the entire conference. Time for him go to, I think. Using the CoachCalc system to figure out how much we can pay a new coach, we're able to pay $2.265 million. Which is a lot more than I anticipated. But Wyoming's prestige is 61 and the conference is a 5 prestige, so it worked out that we ended up getting more from boosters to pay a coach. With that, we'll start our national search for a replacement.
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03-30-2011, 06:55 PM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NJ
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Glad you restarted this. Look forward to reading. Seems like a neat idea.
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03-30-2011, 07:04 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Well given that it's clear I have a bias towards younger coaches on the whole, it's no surprise that I went searching immediately towards the younger coaches I could find.
Our first candidate is the head coach at San Francisco heading into his 3rd season. As an assistant at Syracuse and Missouri, he had a very successful couple of years including two Final Fours. Code:
Best of all, he's only making $412,221 at San Francisco and so, getting him to our squad won't be that difficult financially if we make the offer. One of the good things about doing this kind of dynasty when the game first starts is there are entirely too many good coaches to start with on the market or available as assistants. In any case, it benefits us. Our next candidate is currently the 2nd assistant at Arizona. He's got head coaching experience in the past including stints at Iowa and UConn. He's currently helping Arizona on their run of pretty successful years. Code:
My third and final candidate is another assistant coach. Least amount of head coaching experience of the three, but is currently an assistant at LSU, which is a powerhouse program. Code:
Three very good candidates in my opinion, each with their own strengths and advantages. Now to make a decision... |
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03-30-2011, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Thank you for checking it out! Too bad you can't hire away assistants in the game to be assistants. That said, each of these guys comes with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. Cliff Gendron (USF): I love that he's only 40. Of course, it might mean he'd leave for a higher paying job once the team was successful and that's problematic. Also, he doesn't have an extensive head coaching body of work. Still, love that he's got the aptitude to recruit. Probably have to say that with him, it'd be about upside and letting him grow into the job. Darnell James (LSU): I love that this guy would be able to recruit and run an offense, as it's the style I prefer to see. Also, LSU is a powerhouse program and the fact that I can pry him from a staff like that would be great with the boosters. Problems? Well, mostly that he's thin on head coaching experience and he's woefully weak in the other areas. Edward Broadus (Arizona): He was very, very good at UConn and pretty woeful at Iowa. I don't really know what to make of that. Still, in terms of resume he's the most accomplished guy of our three. I like that he's close in age to James, so it's not like we're going after a guy who is in his 60s or something, with an eye on retiring. My real issue with him is whether his stint with us would be more like his Big East days or if he'll struggle to adapt to the Mountain West. Any of these three would be good, I think. But we can only pick one. I try not to let ratings factor into the decision making too much, rather letting their resume and other intangibles factor in. For me, the ratings are like their interview. But remember that Gendron is only 40 and can still develop considerably and that Broadus' advantage is a long history on the sideline. I could make a case for any of them, but...I need to think about it for a minute and then decide on who will lead our program going forward. Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-30-2011 at 07:22 PM. |
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03-30-2011, 08:04 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Pokes hire Broadus as new head man in Laramie
It was a tough decision, but in the end, Wyoming has hired Arizona assistant Edward Broadus as their new head coach. The 1907 Big East Coach of the Year has won over 300 games as a head coach and has spent the past four years as an assistant under Edward Cantor who's 427 wins are Top-25 all time in D1 college basketball.
He's assembled a staff that includes two former D1 head coaches in former Marshall HC Rory Ramsdell and former Akron HC Gerald Weaver. With this new regime in place, big things are expected in Laramie this season and into the future. |
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03-30-2011, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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1919-20 SEASON RESULTS
Here's how Coach Broadus' first season went down. No postseason, but the MWC had an especially down year. The lone postseason representative was conference tournament champ Nevada who earned an 11-seed in the NCAAs. The Pokes made the semis of the conference tournament before falling short. Code:
1919-20 FINAL FOUR 1 Missouri v. 5 Kansas (65-64) 3 Cincinnati v. 3 Charlotte (86-76) Missouri 74, Cincinnati 57 Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-30-2011 at 08:43 PM. |
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03-30-2011, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Heading into Year 2 with Wyoming and I think I'm just going to do one school at at a time. Might be easier to read and a lot easier to manage.
16-14 this year. Again lost in the MWC semis, this time to Boise State. San Diego State (17-18 won the conference tournament and the MWC autobid.) 1920-21 SEASON Code:
I'm not sure the problem here is solely one of coaching, but perhaps the lack of a recruiting base. Still, we're getting anxious. He'll get at least two more years though to ply his trade. 1920-21 FINAL FOUR ------ 4 Maryland v. 1 Virginia (91-67) 1 Marquette v. 2 Syracuse (68-55) Marquette v. Maryland (53-71) Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-30-2011 at 09:13 PM. |
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03-30-2011, 09:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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FYI: If a coach is fired before we can fire him ourselves, it means we've been fired as AD and the next job I take has to be at a lower prestige school in a lower prestige conference than the one I just worked in, unless I'm already at level 1.
Well how about THIS for a breakthrough?! The Pokes started off this year 13-3 and ranked in the Top 25. The ended January ranked #21 in the poll with a record of 17-4. Three other MWC teams were ranked at that time including Nevada (#7) rival Colorado State (#17) and Air Force (#23). One would think that this would ensure the end of the Pokes five-year postseason drought, right? The team ended February 19-9 and out of the Top 25, but...still, what an improvement. The team was blown out in the MWC semis, 91-55 to rival CSU, who will face #2 seed Nevada to determine who gets the auto bid. 1921-22 SEASON (YEAR 3 AT WYOMING) Code:
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03-30-2011, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here's the schedule from the 1921-22 season.
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Bubble Watch has the MWC as a three-bid league with Nevada, Air Force and CSU all locks. Code:
I'm inclined to believe that a SOS of 111 is going to be the death knell in our chances of making the NCAAs however. It might be catalyst for me expanding the tournament next year. Mostly because some pretty bad conference champs are taking up valuable spots and having four more at-large bids would be useful even if we don't benefit. In any case, I'll report back and let you know how it all flops out. Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-30-2011 at 09:34 PM. |
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03-30-2011, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Holy shit we got in. #9 seed in the Midwest Region. We'll be playing #8 Kansas (20-11) with the winner facing off against the winner of #1 Marquette (28-5) and #16 Gardner-Webb (14-17).
Pretty pumped. Totally though we'd be on the outside looking in! |
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03-30-2011, 09:36 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Oh well. I don't know that this ought to be all that surprising.
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03-30-2011, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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1921-22 FINAL FOUR
4 Nevada v. 4 Syracuse (70-90) 2 Texas A&M v. 2 Alabama (70-60) Syracuse 75, Texas A&M 61 Now that we have another season in the books, I think we'll give it one more year in Wyoming before deciding what's next in the AD world. That was Wyoming's first NCAA appearance since 1913 though, so...not a bad year at all. Last year's recruiting class was #85, but for once it was middle of the pack in the league rather than rock bottom. |
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03-30-2011, 11:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Welp, it was not to be this season. 16-16 and we regress back to the earth. What to do now? Stick it out another year? Find a less competitive school? I'm not exactly sure yet.
1922-23 SEASON Wyoming Cowboys (4th season) Code:
1922-23 FINAL FOUR 5 Virginia def. 1 Air Force 76-75 2 NC State def. Baylor 83-77 Virginia def. NC State 91-89 Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-30-2011 at 11:47 PM. |
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03-31-2011, 12:48 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I decided to share the spreadsheet I use to calculate coach salaries in case it'd be of interest to you. It's just an Excel spreadsheet that you can use in Excel, OpenOffice Calc and probably Google Spreadsheets too.
I just realized that all you have to do is go to the A.D. tab and get the total budget number there. If you do that, then you don't have to bother putting in the assistant salaries at all and it'll have the same effect. |
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03-31-2011, 01:08 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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WYOMING AD TO TAKE OVER JOB AT MORIBUND COLORADO
After four years at the helm at the University of Wyoming, athletic director D.C. Morris is taking on a new challenge. This time at Pac-12 cellar dweller Colorado.
"This is a task I don't take lightly," said the AD who in four years at Wyoming was responsible for helping the school's athletic program reach new heights including their first NCAA appearance in basketball in eight years, two bowl games and fundraising nearly $25 million to start an NCAA men's and women's hockey program at the school. His task at Colorado will be to help the school's men's basketball program, who have a lone NIT appearance to their postseason credit in school history. Current head coach Rex Carroll has spent just one season in Boulder and is rumored to be on the chopping block with the new regime heading into town. "We haven't made any decisions about anything yet. It's my first day on the job. We're just going to take a look at things, assess them and figure out the best way to move Buffaloes athletics forward," said the new AD. Code:
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03-31-2011, 01:22 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Colorado is a 51 prestige program in a 5 prestige conference. Since I wasn't fired, but the team didn't demonstrably improve, I couldn't sell taking over a more prestigious program. But since I managed to stay for four years, I could stay at the same prestige level conference wise, which is important because if we're fired, then I have to start from a lower level. There were jobs with more success possibly at lower levels with open head coach jobs waiting for me to come in and make the hire, but...too much risk to go down to a 3-level conference and not make it work because then we'd have to go lower.
I think making the tournament in Year 3 at Wyoming is what we'd call a success. Not sure what this year will look like there, but we'll obviously monitor it and see how Coach Broadus does for the rest of his duration at Wyoming since he was our hire. I hate to fire this guy after just one year in Colorado. They did improve relative to the year before (6-23 in '21, 8-22 in '22) but I'm just not sure if I can justify keeping him around either. Plus, I already know who I'd like to hire. So we're going to fire this guy after one year. Hope I end up being right on this move, though. |
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03-31-2011, 01:32 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Remember my finalist search from last time? Well, I'm not even dipping into the well to go out and search because I had an idea of what I wanted to do. Cliff Gendron is now at George Mason. Even if I wanted to hire him, I couldn't because they are a 70 prestige program and that's higher than us.
I won't be stealing Wyoming's coach either, even if I could (I can't...same reason) and so...that leaves the 3rd guy in our search, Darnell James. Code:
After his success at LSU, he earned the head job at Ohio University. He's doing well there despite the fact that they're in the MAC. Best of all, with a 33 prestige in a 2-star league, he's only making $340,812. We can pay him over $2.5 million at CU, should he make the move. Alas, we're going to hire Coach James and see if he can turn things around at Colorado. |
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03-31-2011, 02:10 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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First off, I should mention that Wyoming fired Edward Broadus just after I left. He's now the HC at Virginia Tech. I guess it's probably good I got out of there when I did.
1923-24 SEASON First year at Colorado. Let's see how it went down. Coach James has a difficult task ahead of him trying to right the ship at a program that's never had sustained success. So our expectations for Year One are not that high. We just want to get through the season. Code:
Eight wins matches last season's total. We'll need a few years to really get a sense of how this is going to here, I believe. So onward to next season. FINAL FOUR 1 Syracuse def. 4 Louisville (74-67) 2 Virginia def. 7 Wake Forest (69-59) Virginia def. Syracuse (81-77) |
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03-31-2011, 03:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I screwed up and simmed past 1924-25 before I could give you an account of it. But our record was 12-18 (7-7 in the Pac-12).
1925-26 SEASON We danced around .500 all year and naturally wanted the club to finish the year on a higher note, as the school's last winning season came seven years ago. But it wasn't to be. Still, a two win improvement over last year shows progress. Code:
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03-31-2011, 04:13 AM
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It's our 5th season and we're 10-18 at the end of February. I'm really disappointed. But we're going to give Coach James one more season. For what it's worth, I still haven't turned on the 3 point shot yet and the tournment remains at 64 teams.
As expected, we lose in the first round of the Pac-10 tournament and end the year 11-20. Sigh. Like I said, he gets one more year. But we're firing his entire staff as a sacrifice. They're just not getting it done. Or maybe you can tell me what you think as a faux fan...keep him or dump him? No real pressure on my job here at Colorado, yet. They've been bad forever. This isn't new to them. Code:
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03-31-2011, 09:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, VA
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5 seasons and no winning records? It is hard to justify keeping him.
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03-31-2011, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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How is his recruiting? Does he have a big class or two that are going to be upper-classmen in the next year or two? If so, I'd keep him and see how that pans out.
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81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions." |
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03-31-2011, 11:52 AM
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1926-27 FINAL FOUR
1 Stanford def. 1 Virginia 64-58 3 Georgetown def. 1 Nevada 71-64 3 Georgetown 83 def. 1 Stanford 75 Quote:
He's been a pretty big recruiting bust. This year was easily his best year in the five years he's been with us, he picked up a 4-star kid for the first time ever, but the classes have been quite small each year, usually no more than two kids. Quote:
I'd be tempted to give him a 6th year if he fired all of his assistants. But it might be worthwhile to clean the whole cupboard and start over again, as he's not getting younger and clearly they're all failing to get it done. |
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03-31-2011, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I did the next best thing. I asked him to resign. He's now the head coach at Nebraska-Omaha, an open job with a lower prestige/conference program that's actually had more success than us lately. (Made the Sweet 16 last year) Their coach retired and the AD was the same guy from LSU that he knew. So it worked out and he's out of our hair now.
Now that he's gone, we've got to get out there and see what we can find to replace him, of course. We have about $2.65 million to pay a coach, which is solid enough to entice a mid-major to move up. I'm not going to focus on guys who are assistants in this search. Too much risk. I'm going straight for head coaches, hopefully who've had success and are looking to move up. That said, there aren't exactly a ton of those kinds of programs out there -- I've found barely any, in fact -- so I might be forced to dip into the "assistant coach with success" well again. In any case, here are our candidates. Joe Peebles is the head coach at Memphis. Had a great run at Bradley some years back, so I knew who he was anyway. Not exactly tearing up the airwaves at Memphis, but he seems like a solid coach and we can afford him. ($1.9 million) Code:
Here's our second candidate, Ruben Owen just coming off a Final Four as an assistant with Virginia. Older than I'd like, but I'll find a young assistant that he can mentor if we hired him with the idea that we'd promote the other guy once he's ready to retire. If we went in this direction. Code:
Here's our third candidate. Rusty Woods is the head coach at New Mexico State. Code:
I haven't decided which one of these I'd like to go with yet. Torn on all three, though not like when I was in Wyoming and torn. This is about finding a guy to right the ship and all three of them have their flaws and I'll be more interested in the assistant hiring process this time compared with last for that reason. Feel free to chime in, if you like. Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-31-2011 at 12:19 PM. |
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03-31-2011, 03:37 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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In game, how do you actually go about searching for coaches? Is it just clicking on team after team and looking at their coaches? That seems pretty time intensive and boring. I hope there is an easier way, I'd like to try something like this...
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03-31-2011, 03:52 PM
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Well, not quite clicking but something like that. You can go to a school, click on coaches and the coach and once you've done that, you can scroll and see the various coaching records. It's sort of time intensive in a sense, but...the thing is, at any given time most coaches are entirely out of your range. Like, you're not going to hire a guy from a 1-level prestige program to coach at your Pac-12 school. So that rules out a lot of people. On the flip, if you're at a school that can't pay much, it's straight assistants and same deal...you want to search for someone with decent ratings from a good school. If you're just searching for the best ratings, then yeah...it'd be time consuming and boring. But if you do it a different way, it's sort of fun and addictive to find the best guys that have decent ratings but more importantly that you can judge based on performance. As far as display, the game doesn't have a particularly elegant way of dealing with it, no. But it doesn't end up being that tedious I've found. |
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03-31-2011, 04:03 PM
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Here at Colorado, we've hired Joe Peebles as our new head coach. Let's hope he has more success than his predecessor and that we can truly get CU into a new echelon.
This is my 6th season in Boulder. I expect this season will be better than the previous ones mostly due to our star recruit PG Alphonso Jackson. Still, this is a program that's had two winning seasons ever (1919, 1907) and that first winning season (both seasons 16-15) was where we made the NIT and lost in the first round. Our coaching staff is much improved over what we had with Coach James, though, so I have fairly high hopes for this year. |
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03-31-2011, 04:21 PM
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Well, my enthusiasm wasn't unwarranted. This could be a typical case of "winning with another coach's players" but...this is one hell of a turnaround in any case.
Ladies and gentleman, no matter what happens here this indeed the best season so far in Colorado basketball history. Code:
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Bubble Watch has us in the tournament as the 5th Pac-12 team, with the other four as locks. We lost to Stanford 81-73 in the Pac-12 semis, but beat Cal in the quarters to end the regular season at 21-11. Now...we wait for the outcome of Selection Sunday. |
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03-31-2011, 04:24 PM
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First NCAA appearance is secured. We are the #9 seed in the Midwest region. Our first matchup is a date against Purdue. If we win? We get the winner of rival #1 seed Colorado State and Eastern Washington.
Bleh, they are stacked if we got that far. But having never been here, we'll soak it all in. Purdue went 22-12 this year and were 7th in the B10. They lost in the conference tournament finals to Ohio State. |
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03-31-2011, 04:26 PM
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First an appearance, now...a tournament win! Next up, a date with rival CSU.
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03-31-2011, 04:28 PM
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Frankly, the outcome was much better than I anticipated.
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Still, an fantastic year for the Buffs. Just hope this wasn't a flash in the pan. No four-star recruits coming next year, this much I know. 1927-28 FINAL FOUR 4 Michigan State def. 4 USC 86-68 1 Colorado State def. 4 Minnesota 63-46 Michigan State def. Colorado State 61-54 Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-31-2011 at 04:29 PM. |
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03-31-2011, 05:04 PM
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CONFERENCE CHANGES
UMass goes from C-USA to the Big East Pacific goes from the Big West to the WCC Cal Tech goes from Independent to Big West Louisiana Tech goes from WAC to C-USA San Jose State goes from WAC to MWC BYU goes from WCC to WAC Utah Valley goes from MAJOR to WAC Cal State Bakersfield goes from MAJOR to WAC |
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03-31-2011, 07:39 PM
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Rather than allow people to create recruits right now, I've come up with a different idea. I'll create a custom conference of user teams that we can follow and see their success over time, in addition to watching me job hop.
The Continental League will need to exist for ten years before it can get an autobid to the NCAA tournament. I'll start the conference with some teams to get it going and then you all can submit an "application" to join the league with your school. Schools can be from anywhere. Here's the application: Quote:
They can be real life non-Division 1 schools if you'd like, defunct universities or if you want to create one as I probably will...all the better. The only real hitch is that the names of the teams can't be Dickwad State or something. They have to sound like real school names (public or private, doesn't matter to me) but other than that, feel free if you're interested. 1928-29 INAUGURAL MEMBERS University of New Orleans Longwood University UConn-Torrington Oregon A&M University (Hermiston, OR) University of California at Anaheim University of Texas-Wichita Falls Chicago State University Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL) Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-31-2011 at 07:54 PM. |
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03-31-2011, 08:26 PM
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Colorado's 1927 recruiting class was ranked 63rd in the nation and 8th in the Pac-12.
Not sure what to expect this upcoming season. Suffice to say after last year, there are actual expectations that we might have turned some kind of corner. We lost two seniors, but we get a redshirt to replace one of them at the center position and otherwise...it'll just be opaque. |
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03-31-2011, 08:38 PM
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1927-28 COLORADO BUFFALOES
(7th season)
We went 10-6 through the non-conference schedule. And ended January 13-6, undefeated in the Pac-12. End the regular season 19-11. Second straight winning season. #3 seed in the conference tournament. Code:
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03-31-2011, 08:43 PM
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Bubblewatch says the Pac-12 is a six-bid league with us "In" after four locks ahead of us. (Stanford, Arizona State, USC, Washington State)
We beat Oregon 77-56 in the Pac-12 Quarters and face Arizona State in the semis. We beat them handily 85-69, which shocked me since we lost to them earlier in the month. In the finals, we take on 4th seeded USC who edged out top seeded Stanford 57-56 in the other semi. Suffice to say, this is CU's first-ever appearance in the conference tourney title game. Unfortunately, our boys couldn't get it done falling 79-69 to USC. Still, I suspect we've done enough to solidify our case for a 2nd straight NCAA appearance. Have I turned things around here yet?  Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-31-2011 at 08:44 PM. |
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03-31-2011, 08:48 PM
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Shows you what I know. We were apparently one of the first four out, as we earned a #1 seed in the NIT. On one hand, it's disappointing and on another, the fact that we might be able to win something if we go on a run is more exciting to me anyway in a sense.
Still, a Vermont team that won it's conference with a losing record managed to get a #14 seed, because there were indeed worse teams in the field than that. I think it's probably time to tournament expansion to 68 for that reason, because it's not a new trend. In any case, we're going to see how this NIT thing goes. NIT 2nd Round (Colorado v. Lehigh)
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NIT 3rd Round (Colorado v. Duquesne)
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I figure this thing is cluttered enough and I don't know how readable it is, so I put the box scores in spoiler tags, not for suspense. NIT Quarterfinals (Colorado v. UW-Milwaukee)
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03-31-2011, 08:56 PM
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NIT SEMI-FINALS
Wake Forest 75, Colorado 64 NIT 3rd Place Georgia 84, Colorado 70 Despite the letdown of a 4th place finish in the NIT, I still say it was a heck of a year. I thought after last year, we'd have a hard time coming back and I was wrong. The team responded well and in terms of win total this is the best season in school history. This class is no doubt going to go down in history as the best to date. It's pretty excellent stuff. After seven seasons in Colorado, turning around a program that had exactly one postseason appearance in it's history prior to our arrival, I think it's time to move on now. Not sure to where though. Plus, I'll stop posting for a while and let you all get caught up.  1928-29 FINAL FOUR 1 Colorado State def. 2 Virginia 75-66 2 Georgetown def. 1 Missouri 73-64 1 Colorado State def. Missouri 60-51 |
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04-01-2011, 06:59 PM
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First off, I changed my mind. We're going to do at least another season at CU. Dunno why, just decided I wasn't quite ready to leave yet.
Second, I've finally expanded the tournament to 68 teams and I'll be turning on the 3 point shot this year. Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-01-2011 at 09:59 PM. |
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04-01-2011, 09:13 PM
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We ended February 22-5 ranked 19th in the country. We've never done that before, so it was quite pleasant to see.
Ended the regular season 24-6 and (11-3) in the Pac-12. What this will do for us in the tournament and beyond, remains to be seen. Code:
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Superstar recruit Alphonso Jackson will almost surely leave, as this is his junior year and that's the earliest I have players able to leave for the draft. He's the reason I hung around another year, just to see what they'd do. Code:
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04-01-2011, 09:22 PM
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1929-30 POSTSEASON
The #1 seed in the Pac-12 tourney for the first time. Taking on Stanford for the conference tourney title, after claiming our first-ever Pac-12 regular season title. We lose 86-75, but we're virtually assured of a high seed in the NCAA tourney, our second bid in three years. The Pac-12 is having another strong year with an apparent six lock bids in the tournament headed by us, the regular season champs. We claim the #3 seed in the South Region. (In case you were wondering, former CU Coach Darnell James has led Nebraska-Omaha to the tournament after winning the Summit League this year with a 22-win season. They're a 14-seed in the Midwest region) NCAA FIRST ROUND (vs. 14-seed Bethune-Cookman) Colorado 81, Bethune-Cookman 62
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NCAA SECOND ROUND (vs. 6-seed Texas) Colorado 74, Texas 61
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Notice the emergence of one senior Carlos Wolfgang. He was a ONE STAR RECRUIT out of Utah. And he is just absolutely going off in this tournament. I had no idea who he was until I just looked after seeing his ridiculous numbers in this tournament. First Sweet 16, here we come. NCAA SWEET 16 (vs. 7-seed Illinois-Chicago) Colorado 89, UIC 80
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Hello? Elite Eight? Is that YOU?! Wow, these guys are crazy. In a good way! Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-01-2011 at 09:38 PM. |
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04-01-2011, 09:38 PM
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1930 ELITE EIGHT
1929-30 POSTSEASON
So pumped for this. We were so bad for so long that I can honestly say I never, ever anticipated a scenario where 1) this would happen and 2) that I'd be hanging around to see it. I was contemplating making championship banners and posting them in the first post as we do things just for those NCAA appearances. Now? I might really have to, because we're literally a win away from the FINAL FOUR. This has been an upset-laden tournament across the bracket. Here are the Elite Eight teams so you know who is still left: WEST REGIONAL FINAL 3 Stanford (beat 2 LSU 79-74) v. 8 North Carolina (beat 4 Cincinnati 72-70) MIDWEST REGIONAL FINAL 2 Minnesota (beat 6 Oregon State 101-82) v. 4 Wake Forest (beat 3 Washington State 58-38) SOUTH REGIONAL FINAL 3 Colorado v. 4 Baylor (beat 1 NC State 71-69) EAST REGIONAL FINAL 1 Syracuse (beat 13 Maine 80-61) v. 10 Albany (beat 11 Utah 84-75) It's game time now. I'm literally nervous to push the button, because I can't even believe it's here and I don't want the run to end. What a crazy, crazy year. Ok...here we go. |
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04-01-2011, 09:39 PM
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1930 ELITE EIGHT
SOUTH REGIONAL FINAL Colorado v. Baylor Code:
FINAL. FOUR. Other winners: East region: Syracuse 91, Albany 84 Midwest region: Minnesota 92, Wake Forest 86 West region: North Carolina 80, Stanford 77 1930 FINAL FOUR 3 Colorado v. 8 North Carolina 1 Syracuse v. 2 Minnesota Last edited by Young Drachma : 04-01-2011 at 09:42 PM. |
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04-01-2011, 09:47 PM
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1930 FINAL FOUR
COLORADO V. NORTH CAROLINA I didn't have high hopes for us in this game, mostly because 1) I obviously have nothing to do with game management. I don't even watch these games. I just push the sim day button and hope for the best outcome. That said...I worried because UNC has more blue chippers obviously, but also because they beat a conference rival that beat us during the regular season. It made me think we couldn't beat them when it mattered. Code:
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04-01-2011, 09:55 PM
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1930 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Colorado v. Minnesota Wow. I don't even have words for this one. Minnesota (32-5) beat Syracuse 83-63 to earn their spot here with the winner claiming their first title. But before you look at ol' Minny as an underdog, consider this: Since the inception of this universe in 1899, Minnesota has 26 NCAA tournament appearances. sixteen other schools have more, but the most of any of them is a three way tie for 31 total (Marquette, Virginia, UNC) so they're not far behind. This is their 3rd Final Four (2nd in three years, interrupted by a Sweet 16 appearance last year) Point being? These guys are not cuddly gophers, but mad beavers ready to get over their blue blooded hump. I have no idea whether we can beat them and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time analyzing the numbers because it'll depress me. Our guys made a hell of an inspired run to even be here, but I don't think any of us would be satisfied to go home now with a "well, at least we made it." So...I'm going to push the button and hope for the best. After all, I didn't anticipate any of this and that's what makes it all the more awesome. |
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04-01-2011, 09:57 PM
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1930 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
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04-01-2011, 11:11 PM
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Well after that, I'm really leaving Colorado now. One of the things I tried to figure out was HOW to assess where I could go when it was time to leave.
Same rule applies as before, that if the head coach gets fired by the trustees before I can fire him, it means I'm fired too and I have to go down a level in conference prestige (and lower team prestige than where I was) What I did was add a section of coach calc called Prestige Bank. Basically at each school I go to, I get prestige points leftover from whatever the difference is between what it was when I got there and what it was when I left. So at Wyoming, it was the same when I got there as it was when I left so we gained zilch. (62-62) At Colorado, we began at 51. Seven years later, we're at 79. I can go up 28 prestige points. Which of course, means I can take over any program I want. I'm tempted to stay in the five-prestige conference boat and take over another struggling program looking to gain a foothold, since there's nothing to gain at a school that's already in the 90s, just lots to lose. But...I think I've earned a bit of a respite from the rebuilding game for a minute and I'd like to see what it's like when you have money to spend and just have to hire wisely. I try to stick with programs that have fired or retired a coach, so I don't have to get rid of someone prematurely in this instance and so, the finalist programs were Stanford (99), Marquette (98), North Carolina (93) and Texas (86). I couldn't do Stanford because I'd hate to leave for an inter-conference competitor and Texas didn't appeal to me for other reasons. It left me with UNC -- who still haven't won a title, but are perennial tournament visitors -- and Marquette. I have no interest in relocating virtually to Milwaukee, but the situation there is mondo interesting. In 30 years, they've had just two head coaches. The second one has now retired. Donnie Ward coached there from 1899-1922 and is currently 9th all-time in coaching wins (677) and Glenn Weaver is 12th all-time in coaching wins (652) and came to Marquette after taking Air Force to a national title in 1922 and won it the next year with Marquette in 1923. So far, he's the only coach to take two teams to a title. (Current Syracuse HC Bernard Kratz might be the 2nd, he's already gotten them to a Final Four since he got there. He won two titles with Ohio State earlier in his career.) Anyway, Marquette and three other programs (Georgetown, Missouri, LSU) are tied behind Syracuse (4) for the most titles so far. They've made the sweet 16 sixteen times, boast 11 Elite 8 appearances and have five Final Fours in this history. The task is not to go through a flurry of hiring and firing coaches, but to find a steady guy who can take over the job, grow into it and hopefully build a legacy of championships. I find this intriguing and so, we're going to risk prestige points and try our hand at Marquette. What is it with me and teams that wear gold? |
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