Minnesota State Norsemen : Building a new tradition (CH2K7 360)

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Minnesota State Norsemen: Building a new tradition

Difficulty - AA
Quarters - 14min. Sim 20min
Sliders - AuburnALumni's

After recently being promoted to the horizon league from division 1-AA and Youngstown State dropping their program due to financial reasons, MSU was hit with a stiff penalty for violating the academic rules by the players cheating on their exams and failing to show up to class. After further examination of the scandal, every player on the team was involved including the coaching staff and the players were dismissed from the team including the coaching staff being terminated. Minnesota State was put on probation by having no scholarships available for the next 4 years.

In 2006, after the season came to a close Coach Wilderness who coached his JUCO team to 5 straight final fours and 2 championships was the leading candidate for the Indiana job. Weeks later he was sentenced to jail for DWI and fleeing the cops. Coach Wilderness had 2 DUI's previous from the DWI and had a constant battle with alcoholism. After being released from jail on parole in July, Wilderness received much help relieving his alcoholism problem and is now sober and ready to take another position. Despite his reputation being tarnished from the incident, he was flattered to be close to home after being named the head coach of the Minnesota State Norsemen.

Its gonna be a tough time from the get go for Wilderness, after inheriting a empty roster and no coaching staff due to the violation, he clearly has to start from scratch.

[superjames1992]

Nice dynasty! I like the storyline behind it!

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Starting from scratch

Coach Wilderness has his work cut out for him with no players, staff and scholarships for 4 years, Wilderness held a tryout on campus to start his journey on building a new tradition at Minnesota State.

The tryouts were horrid at best with a very few players with talent interested in the program due to the high prestige of their football program. Coach got a little help from his son Marcus, who originally committed to the University of Minnesota, decided to commit playing under his father. He got even more help as Marcus' best friend Felipe Fernandez, a highly recruited center who played with Marcus on his high school team and AAU squad committed to MSU as well.

Things got better for Wilderness as he now has two talented freshmen coming into his program but there was still much work for left to do despite the low interest in the program.

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Community service

With Marcus and Felipe to build around, time was running low and it was September and they had to fill their roster quickly before their season begins with midnight madness next month on the 23rd.

First task to do on Wilderness' list was to build his coaching staff. Finding his two assistants was a little easier to pursue as he signed his assistant when he coached JUCO in Curtis Norton and University of Wisconsin's young assistant in Dawin Joiner. With the low turnout from the tryout he held earlier, Wilderness and his staff decided to take a different approach by visiting his old stomping grounds at the community college and other local colleges to pluck players to fill his squad.

With a few weeks remaining before the season and the madness begins, Wilderness finished his tour by visting more than a dozen community colleges including nabbing a few walk-ons from the big schools, finally has enough players to complete his roster before the season begins.

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Let the madness begin!

The inaugural first season on the D-1A level and the horizon conference, the Norsemen are ready to begin the season with midnight madness in their brand new arena called "The Pit".

06/07 Minnesota State Norsemen

OVR	OFF	DEF	SHT	REB
67	66	70	65	74

heres a look at the 06-07 Norsemen roster and staff

NAME	POS	OVR	OFF	DEF	TEA	SCO	CHA	DIS
Coach Wilderness	HC	A-	B	A-	A+	C-	A-	A
Curtis Norton	AST	B-	A+	C+	C+	C	C+	C-
Dawin Joiner	AST	B-	B-	C-	B-	A-	C+	C+

NUM	PLAYER	POS	HT	WT	Class	OVR	HOMETOWN
35	Felipe Fernandez	C	6-10	290	FR	73	Eden Prairie,MN
1	Marcus Wilderness	PG	6-4	190	FR	73	Burnsville,MN
13	Stanton Townsend	C	6-9	267	FR	58	Eagan,MN
3	Linton Wingate	PG	5-11	160	FR	58	Brooklyn Park,MN
15	Enrique Nwoke	PF	6-7	230	FR	57	Maple Grove,MN
31	Brent Snipes	SF	6-6	205	FR	57	Burnsville,MN
21	D'Angalo Collins	SF	6-9	225	FR	57	Bloomington,MN
20	Paco Valdez	SF	6-6	200	FR	57	St. Cloud,MN
2	Cameron McMillan	SG	6-2	180	FR	57	Minneapolis,MN
50	Josh Witt	PF	6-9	275	FR	56	Eagan,MN
25	Lee Wheatley	SG	6-0	190	FR	56	St. Cloud,MN
33	Octavius Perez	PF	6-9	210	FR	55	Bloomington,MN
22	Khalil Pemberton	SG	6-5	200	FR	55	Rochester,MN
24	Tre Byerson	SF	6-4	220	FR	53	St. Paul,MN
32	Jamarcus Ahlfeld	SG	6-5	200	FR	53	Minnetonka,MN

With talented prospects, Marcus Wilderness and Felipe Fernandez, this is very young squad with all of them being freshmen from Minnesota. This is going to be an interesting team to watch and how much they will mature over the next 4 years.

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The Norsemen's season tips off on the national stage

The Norsemen kickoff their 06-07 campaign in the 2k Sports College Hoops Classic in Madison Square Garden against Central Michigan.

heres a look at their 06-07 schedule

DATE	OPPONENT
11/8	at Central Michigan "Neutral"
11/13	at Duquesne
11/22	vs Minnesota
11/24	at Ohio State
11/28	vs Canisius
12/2	at Illinois-Chicago
12/9	at UW-Milwaukee
12/16	at Robert Morris
12/19	at James Madison
12/22	at Kent State
12/30	vs Loyola(IL)
1/2	vs Akron
1/6	at Detroit
1/11	vs UW-Green Bay
1/13	vs UW-Milwaukee
1/17	at Butler
1/20	vs Cleveland State
1/24	at Wright State
1/29	at Loyola(IL)
1/31	vs Butler
2/3	vs Illinois-Chicago
2/8	at UW-Green Bay
2/14	vs Detroit
2/22	vs Wright State
2/24	at Cleveland State

After weeks of practicing and scrimmaging, the Norsemen are ready to step on the big stage as they get ready for Central Michigan in the 2k College Hoops Classic.

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Gators look to repeat

The Florida Gators look to repeat as champs as they are ranked number one in the pre-season poll.

heres the pre-season top25 followed by the all-americans

RANK	TEAM	OVR
1	Florida	89
2	Arizona	85
3	North Carolina	89
4	Syracuse	85
5	Kansas	89
6	Wisconsin	83
7	Villanova	81
8	Duke	84
9	LSU	84
10	Nevada	82
11	Pittsburgh	83
12	Boston College	81
13	Memphis	82
14	Michigan	83
15	Kentucky	82
16	Gonzaga	79
17	UCLA	82
18	Alabama	84
19	Tennesee	83
20	Ohio State	84
21	Maryland	82
22	Illinois	80
23	Texas A&M	82
24	Connecticut	82
25	Louisville	82

First Team

POS	NAME	CLASS	SCHOOL
PG	Ronald Steele	JR	Alabama
SG	Chris Lofton	JR	Tennessee
SF	Corey Brewer	JR	Florida
PF	Joakim Noah	JR	Florida
C	Greg Oden	FR	Ohio State

Second Team

POS	NAME	CLASS	SCHOOL
PG	Mario Chalmers	SO	Kansas
SG	Aaron Afflalo	JR	UCLA
SF	Reyshawn Terry	SR	North Carolina
PF	Nick Fazekas	SR	Nevada
C	Aaron Gray	SR	Pittsburgh

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Quote: Originally Posted by superjames1992

Nice dynasty! I like the storyline behind it!

Thanks, you guys are gonna be in for a real treat cause now i got adobe premiere and ill start posting some short video highlights with commentary too.