American - 2016

[Julio Riddols]

Man, we have a strong conference.

[Julio Riddols]

I don't think I have gotten my game in, I will likely play it the same time I play my game from the Ladder.

[Julio Riddols]

Holy moly, we had a shootout with North Plainfield. Their offense was just going nuts on us til we finally managed to get a stop late in the 3rd. We had fortunately managed to trade scores all the way to that point, so we used that opportunity to take a 2 score lead and finally their machine broke down with one final interception after which we ran out the clock for the 45-35 win.

Our offense was incredible in this one, managing to convert at least 2 3rd downs with more than 15 yards to go for a first. The run game worked in slowly and finally started getting chunk plays in the second half as we wore their D down. Their team was scoring too fast, so I think we wore them down as the game continued and then when we managed to finally go up by 2 scores we had em.

I hope Conti graduates sometime soon. He's a monster.

We're ready to advance.

[Julio Riddols]

Also, as an aside.. Did anyone happen to catch the Madden Championship on NFL network? I feel like we could hang with those guys. They didn't play like I would expect "Top ranked in the world" players to play. Throwing it up in triple coverage, etc.

[Kodos]

From what I've seen, the Madden Championship guys are all cheesy, exploit the AI guys. Of course, we tend to run it up in these leagues too.

I will advance things at lunch.

[Kodos]

Week 11 Results

Outer Banks 56, Chesapeake 28
Orlando 45, North Plainfield 35
Rochester 24, Frederick 21
Tucker 34, Vicksburg 14
Kentucky 40, Asheville 28


Week 12 Games

When is good for you, Gramm? Weekend mornings work best for me, but I can schedule weeknights after 9:30 most of the time if I know in advance.

#2 Outer Banks (8-0) at #17 Rochester (7-1)
#6 Tucker (7-1) at #25 North Plainfield (5-3)
#14 Orlando (7-1) at #12 Vicksburg (6-2)
#24 Frederick (5-3) at #19 Chesapeake (5-3)

[Grammaticus]

Weekend morning will work. Also, can go for after 9:30pm Wed or Fri night this week.

[Kodos]

How about 9 a.m. on Sunday?

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Kodos

How about 9 a.m. on Sunday?

Okay, that works.

[Kodos]

We're on to Week 13.

Week 12 Results

Outer Banks 49, Rochester 21
Orlando 27, Vicksburg 24
North Plainfield 35, Tucker 30
Frederick 42, Chesapeake 31


Week 13 Games

#2 Outer Banks (9-0) at #10 Orlando (8-1)
#21 Frederick (6-3) at #13 Tucker (7-2)
#20 Rochester (7-2) at #17 Vicksburg (6-3)
Chesapeake (5-4) at #23 North Plainfield (6-3)
Asheville (0-10) at Wake Forest (6-5)

[Julio Riddols]

Man, huge matchup this week.

When ya wanna do it Gramm? I'm available most times, because I'm back on 3rd shift now. My schedule is pretty much wide open.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Man, huge matchup this week.

When ya wanna do it Gramm? I'm available most times, because I'm back on 3rd shift now. My schedule is pretty much wide open.

In the evening either Monday or Wednesday. Or Saturday morning. Any of those days work for you?

[Julio Riddols]

Wednesday evening does. What time you got in mind? I can start any time between 4 pm and 8 pm.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Wednesday evening does. What time you got in mind? I can start any time between 4 pm and 8 pm.

I'm guess 8pm would be best.

[Julio Riddols]

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

I'm guess 8pm would be best.

Damn, had something come up today, probably won't be at the house at 8.. Might have to try for Saturday.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Damn, had something come up today, probably won't be at the house at 8.. Might have to try for Saturday.

Okay, that will work. Is the morning on Saturday good?

[Julio Riddols]

Morning is perfect actually, I can start any time after 7:30.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Morning is perfect actually, I can start any time after 7:30.

Okay, let's go with 8am.

[Julio Riddols]

Sounds good, I should be settled in and ready to go by then.

[Kodos]

Week 13 Results

Orlando 38, Outer Banks 28
Rochester 45, Vicksburg 7
North Plainfield 49, Chesapeake 31
Tucker 49, Frederick 18
Wake Forest 30, Asheville 10


Week 14 Games

#5 Outer Banks (9-1) at #14 Tucker (8-2)
Frederick (6-4) at #6 Orlando (9-1)
#16 Rochester (8-2) at #21 North Plainfield (7-3)
Chesapeake (5-5) at Vicksburg (6-4)

[Julio Riddols]

That was a wild one Gramm.. Going down 14-3 early it looked bad, I figured I was in for another frustrating beat down.. But then we managed to find a way to force some mistakes, and that saved our asses. I was so pissed at that clipping call on my first kick return.

GG man, I never look forward to human/human games because they're so hard to predict and this one was no different. I only hope it was enough to prove to the voters that we deserve a shot at a BCS bowl.

[Kodos]

Our game against the Vipers was kindof annoying. I was looking forward to working against Ronnie Kemp, their 99-rated RB. But they kept feeding some other guy the ball. Kemp didn't touch the ball until the second half of the game, and that was on a pass. Stupid CPU coach. Feed Ronnie the rock!

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

That was a wild one Gramm.. Going down 14-3 early it looked bad, I figured I was in for another frustrating beat down.. But then we managed to find a way to force some mistakes, and that saved our asses. I was so pissed at that clipping call on my first kick return.

GG man, I never look forward to human/human games because they're so hard to predict and this one was no different. I only hope it was enough to prove to the voters that we deserve a shot at a BCS bowl.

Sorry, had to run right after the game, good job. I figured you would feel good with the come back. Very frustrating for me. The usual Special Teams formations were missing, including goal line, etc. No real problem their, it is the new norm and only a problem when guys go for two and you want GL.

The worst was my playbook did not have Dime or Nickel formations. So once you abandoned the run and started passing I had some Blitz formations but no solid pass formations that I know. Then that just bleeds frustration to everything, even the offense.

Really not sure what else to do in these scenarios, I just can't deal with stopping and spending an hour trying to reload and restart Xbox's, etc.

[Julio Riddols]

I hear you man.. I wonder why I haven't been on the crap end of the missing formations issue recently.

[Julio Riddols]

We mangled Frederick this week, our offense must have been riding high after our comeback. Green was 13 for 15 for over 300 yards and a couple scores. His only incompletions were drops. Frederick handled our run game pretty well though.

As for them, their offense was not really much of a challenge, I feel like we knew what they were doing the whole game. I was waiting for the old CPU screenaroo, but they never ran it, and thus made it easy on me.

[Kodos]

Sorry for the delay. Never managed to fit a game in this weekend. Will try to in the next couple days.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

I hope Conti graduates sometime soon. He's a monster.

After a couple of first-quarter interceptions, Conti came to life and ate us up. He had two passing TDs and 113 rushing yards with 2 TDs. What a jerk.

[Kodos]

Week 14 Results

Orlando 42, Frederick 13
Outer Banks 49, Tucker 39
North Plainfield 38, Rochester 22
Vicksburg 35, Chesapeake 21


Week 15 Games

#4 Outer Banks (10-1) at Frederick (6-5)
#19 Tucker (8-3) at #6 Orlando (10-1)
#17 North Plainfield (8-3) at #25 Vicksburg (7-4)
#21 Rochester (8-3) at Chesapeake (5-6)
Asheville (0-11) at Fairbanks (4-7)

[Kodos]

You gonna play your game soon, Julio? The Tigers are getting hungry.

[Julio Riddols]

Oh shit, my bad. I'll play in a little bit.

[Julio Riddols]

It was a long week for me this past week.. I had a health scare involving a shellfish allergy and then decided to quit smoking weed.. Somehow it slipped my mind that withdrawal symptoms involve anxiety and depression, so I wrongly assumed I was losing my shit again mentally like I did back in 2009.. Well fast forward to the past couple days and as the initial withdrawal symptoms have subsided my mood has changed drastically and now I am on cloud 9. Turns out that the way marijuana works on me is that it slows down my digestion enough to cause bad bacteria to build up in my stomach, and what I thought was irritable bowel syndrome may have been almost completely due to my smoking habits. It's crazy the things the mind and body can do when in different states and how little things can turn into big things without really giving any indication as to why.

I've learned a lot this past week.

Don't know why, but I thought I would share that, heh. Guess that explains why I didn't play though.. Couldn't find joy in anything for a good week or so.

[Julio Riddols]

Got my game in, and it was a damn struggle to say the least. Back and forth all the way, we came down the field late with a chance to win 44-41 with a FG.. But my controller has been failing to register input from the thumbstick on kicks recently... So I went to kick it, and of course, that happened.

So.. We went to OT. I wanted the ball first, got it, scored, and went for 2 to try and end it immediately, but we failed the 2 point conversion. Shit was tense. Tucker got the ball, got a first down on 3rd and long on their first series of downs, then we shut em down for 3 straight plays setting up a last chance play from about the 12 yard line.

We went with a dollar package, running a man coverage blitz to try and keep our guys close and their QB under pressure. Duncan dropped to throw, had time, got a great block from his RB to pick up a blitzer, and then fired the ball into the corner of the end zone, to a wide open guy who had broken free from coverage by running through traffic in the end zone.. My heart dropped.. And then the WR dropped the ball.

Biggest sigh of relief of the season.

We win 47-41 in a struggle I don't want to revisit any time soon.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

It was a long week for me this past week.. I had a health scare involving a shellfish allergy and then decided to quit smoking weed.. Somehow it slipped my mind that withdrawal symptoms involve anxiety and depression, so I wrongly assumed I was losing my shit again mentally like I did back in 2009.. Well fast forward to the past couple days and as the initial withdrawal symptoms have subsided my mood has changed drastically and now I am on cloud 9. Turns out that the way marijuana works on me is that it slows down my digestion enough to cause bad bacteria to build up in my stomach, and what I thought was irritable bowel syndrome may have been almost completely due to my smoking habits. It's crazy the things the mind and body can do when in different states and how little things can turn into big things without really giving any indication as to why.

I've learned a lot this past week.

Don't know why, but I thought I would share that, heh. Guess that explains why I didn't play though.. Couldn't find joy in anything for a good week or so.

Glad things are getting better for you, buddy.

[Kodos]

Week 15 Results

Asheville completes a winless season. They will be swapped out for #19 San Luis Obispo (9-3) next season.

Vicksburg 47, North Plainfield 42
Chesapeake 30, Rochster 27
Orlando 47, Tucker 41
Outer Banks 49, Frederick 24
Fairbanks 51, Asheville 24

[Kodos]

2016 Bowl Season

#3 Outer Banks (11-1) at #8 Virginia Tech (11-1)
#7 UCLA at #6 Orlando (11-1)
Marshall (7-5) at #19 Vicksburg (8-4)
North Plainfield (8-4) at North Carolina (8-4)
Tucker (8-4) at Middle Tennessee State (8-4)
Houston (7-5) at Rochester (8-4)
San Diego State (6-6) at Chesapeake (6-6)

[Kodos]

Congratulations to our first American conference Heisman winner!

[Julio Riddols]

Should get this in tonight.

[Kodos]

West Virginia 24, South Carolina 19 (BCS Championship)
Outer Banks 52, Virginia Tech 10
Orlando 45, UCLA 34
North Plainfield 40, North Carolina 31
Vicksburg 41, Marshall 35
Houston 35, Rochester 28
Tucker 41, Middle Tennessee State 28
Chesapeake 10, San Diego State 3

Final Rankings





Final Standings

[Kodos]

Transfers out

Rochester - WR - Corey Guidry (WKU)
Orlando - WR - Jimmy Hawkins (Toledo)
Outer Banks - C - LaRue Brown (Duke)

No transfers in.

[Kodos]

We're on to recruiting.

[Julio Riddols]

Hawkins, you piece of shit.

[Julio Riddols]

My RB will win the Heisman this year. Gonna run him til his legs fall off.

[Kodos]

Rochester is done.

[Julio Riddols]

We're all set on Orlando as well.

[Grammaticus]

I think we are ready to advance.

[Kodos]

2016 Recruiting Results




Not sure how that 3-star WR ended up committing to us, as we never recruited him and had offers out to 2 guys to fill our final spot. Oh well. Will cut him.

[Kodos]

We're on to position changes.

[Julio Riddols]

position changes done for Orlando.

[Grammaticus]

Outer Banks is done with position changes.

[Kodos]

I'll leave training results up until later tonight.