How is YOUR Career Legacy going?!?!

[Dos Peninsulas]

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Also, something I forgot to mention in my post above.

The Atlantic-10 became a power conference. I didn't go look at their profile to see if the game physically changed their ranking to power, but it certainly became one regardless. Near the end of my legacy there were 7 and 8 teams making it out of the A-10 each year, with Richmond and LaSalle becoming dominate teams. They didn't really replace another power conference more than they just added to make 7 of them.

In fact, one year there weren't really any power conferences. Out of the field of 65, one had 6 teams in, another five, and i think six conferences had 4. Lots of equality.

[Brock]

Re: How is YOUR Career Legacy going?!?!

Also, something I forgot to mention in my post above.

The Atlantic-10 became a power conference. I didn't go look at their profile to see if the game physically changed their ranking to power, but it certainly became one regardless. Near the end of my legacy there were 7 and 8 teams making it out of the A-10 each year, with Richmond and LaSalle becoming dominate teams. They didn't really replace another power conference more than they just added to make 7 of them.

In fact, one year there weren't really any power conferences. Out of the field of 65, one had 6 teams in, another five, and i think six conferences had 4. Lots of equality.

Same for me, Mountain West also.

[strobox88]

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After reading about what everyone's been accomplishing here with their career legacy, I decided to put my open legacy on hold and make a career legacy myself. I made a coach named "Clyde McDaniel", and put all of my attribute points into Charisma so I can start recruiting talent right away. I chose Texas Southern as my first school to coach. I decided to simulate all games except for conference tournament and ncaa/nit tourney games.

Here's my record so far:
2007-08: 17-15
2008-09: 24-7 (NIT: First round)
2009-10: 17-10
2010-11: 29-5 (NCAA: Second Round)
2011-12: 29-7 (NCAA: First Round)
2012-13: 22-7 (NIT: First Round)
2013-14: 22-10 (NCAA: First Round)

Coach Profile: OVR: B
Offense: C-
Defense: C-
Teaching: A-
Scouting: B+
Charisma: A+
Discipline: C-

The funnest thing about this team each year is we seem to get better as a team and I keep getting better recruits yearly. When I first started, out team OVR was about 68. Now it's 83. Our roster had players in the 50-69 range. Now we are in the 71-81 range.

As far as our progress as a team goes, we've pretty much dominated our conference, but we always lose to the power conference teams with a few upsets here and there. We've gotten to the tourney a few times, but our players weren't good enough to compete against some of the teams we were being pitted against in the first two rounds. They were more like David and Goliath-type matchups that never ended well. However, in my current season, we have the best team I've ever had in my career legacy by far. We got a couple 4 star recruits, and managed to get a few 3 stars ranked in the top 150 in my past few recruiting classes. I believe my current team has what it takes to make the Sweet 16 and maybe further. The best part of it all is if we fail to make a deep run this year, I get all my starters back next year for one last try. I just upset #3 Arizona as a #14 seed.

Here's my lineup below:
PG Freddy Shepard 6'0" 165lbs JR (OVR:81) 4-star recruit (C potential)
SG Pierre Bolton 6'9" 226lbs SO (OVR:78) 3-star recruit (A potential)
SF Paco Riley 6'7" 231lbs JR (OVR:74) 3-star recruit (F potential)
PF Sid Lindsey 6'9" 240lbs SO (OVR:77) 3-star recruit (A- potential)
C Chester Gary 6'11" 278lbs SO (OVR:77) 3-star recruit (D potential)

Looking at my lineup, I'd say I have a fairly nice lineup given my team in the conference I'm in. My lineup far exceeds any other teams in my conference as well as my bench. The standout is my SG Pierre Bolton. He was a 72 OVR as a Freshman, but is almost in the 80s toward the end of this Sophomore season. He was a skinny 6'5" kid that has grown to whopping 6'9" in two years time. He plays like a Kevin Durant type player, a dynamite scorer, and plays lock down defense. This past season, he averaged 21.6ppg and 2.6 rebounds. That's pretty impressive as a sophomore in the conference I'm in. I can't wait to see what this kid's going to be like as a senior. It would be awesome if he decided to enter the draft. I would go nuts knowing I signed a 3-star recruit as Texas Southern who was future pro prospect. That would be simply awesome. :wink:

I'll keep updated on my NCAA tourney progress. Like I previously mentioned, we just upset #3 Arizona and now have a date with #6 Louisville in the second round. Our goal is the sweet 16. Wish us luck!

[waytofailself]

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Just finished playing my third game as Drexel against Norfolk State (my legacy is in my sig, it's a running series from the team I jilted to the team I joined).

Amazingly intense game that turned into a track meet. I started out 0-8 on the road and was down by as much as 12. It was rough at first, but I fought back in the closing minutes.

Norfolk State kept making ridiculous threes in the closing minutes though.

It's so fun to play against players I recruited. The CPU does so well with keeping my strategy/tendencies.

[strobox88]

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Picking up where I left off with my Texas Southern career legacy, I continued to plow through the tournament, facing #6 Louisville beating them 54-65 to make it to the Sweet 16 for the first time in my coaching career. Had to duel with #2 Cincinnati and managed a blow out beating them 76-52 for another big upset. Advancing to the Elite 8, we were pitted against #5 Oklahoma State, which ended up being a very good game until we managed to pull away using the quickness of our guards to get easy fastbreak points down the stretch. We beat them 71-81.

Finally, 8 years in the making coaching at my first school, we made the Final Four.

Pierre Bolton, the stud Sophomore on our team's pro buzz has risen from Undrafted to Dark Horse. I just played our Final Four game against #1 Boston College, and I'm afraid we lost the game, 71-74. However, it was a good loss. We went head to head with them throughout most of the game, but their 3-pointers were falling like rain. We kept fouling towards the end of the game for one last possession, which ended in a steal. Pierre Bolton shot the last shot of the game in an attempt to tie the game, but to no avail. I was amazed how most of my kids stepped up during this game. They were hitting shots they normally never make let alone take.

#1 Boston College ended up winning the championship, so I feel a little better knowing we lost to the team who ended up winning it all (and we only lost to them by 3 points). I'm pretty satisfied with the run we gave this year. I'm simply more happy given the fact we achieved this with 3 Juniors and 2 Sophomores in our starting lineup, so we have one last chance for a NCAA Championship with this dynasty I'm building with Texas Southern.

I've decided it will be time to move on to a bigger school if we don't get a championship for this upcoming season. Pierre Bolton was named Conference Player of the Year along with being First Team-All Conference, so I'm hoping this upcoming year he will reap even bigger awards!

This year's record:
2014-15: 26-8 (NCAA: Final Four)

Rewards:
My Coach (Clyde McDaniel): Conference Coach of the Year
Fredy Sheppard (Jr PG): First-Team All-Conference
Piere Bolton (So SG): First-Team All-Conference, Conference Player of the Year
Paco Riley (Jr SF): First-Team All-Conference

[michaelsan]

Which roster do you use guys?

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[texasbum06]

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Just started up this game again. Starting out with Sacremento State in my first year doing coach mode only. Rough start to the season but then the team picked it up to push ahead to a winning record.

Went into last game against Portland State with a 7-4 record. Dominated the first half until the last minute where they went on a run of 3-pointers to close it to a 6 point game at half. 2nd half they came out right where they left off. After a very long and frustrating 2nd half it comes down to the less than a minute and they have pushed ahead to 5 points.

My point guard comes down the court and hits a 3 to make it a 2 point game. Forced to foul them and they sink both free throws pushing it back to 4. My team comes down the court and feed it to my SG and he throws up a 3 and it goes in to make it a 1 point game. I foul once again with 17 seconds left to put them on the line. They hit both free throws to make it a 3 point game.

My PG comes up the court and dishes it to my SG with about 8 seconds left. He fires up the shot for the tie but it hits rim and misses. My Center some how grabs the offensive rebound with 3 seconds and throws it back out to the SG who is closely guarded and he has to launch a shot. It goes up and I hear a whistle and I am just thinking "No way I get to go to the line for 3 and the tie"

Then after that thought goes through my head the shot drops in and instead he is going to the line for the win with 1.1 seconds left! He sinks the free throw and they miss a full court shot to cap off an improbably last minute comeback. I felt so helpless since it was coach mode but my players pulled through!

[R1zzo23]

I felt so helpless since it was coach mode but my players pulled through!

I know you just replied to me in the other thread about Coach Mode and a game like this would feel extra special knowing you didn't have a hand in the win yourself.

[texasbum06]

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I know you just replied to me in the other thread about Coach Mode and a game like this would feel extra special knowing you didn't have a hand in the win yourself.

Yeah it is one of those things where you control a lot of things throughout the game but it really all comes down to how your players execute and not how you execute. It is a nice combination of having control while still being out of your hands at the same time.

[R1zzo23]

Just jump started my Open Legacy again. Been playing it for about three years now and I am finishing up my 7th season. The first five I spent at St. John's and now I'm at my 2nd season at SMU.

I was down early and kept cutting into the lead. Eventually I was down 1 with 4 seconds left and UTEP shooting one-and-one. They missed it, outlet to my SG, one dribble and fire...IT'S GOOD!!!!! God I love this game!

[BCEaglesFan]

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I'm 30-1 with UNC Greensboro.

[K0ZZ]

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Started a new closed career.

Went with Howard, snuck into the tournament the first season at 19-16, lost in the first round, but managed to pull in the Mr. Basketball of Maryland who turned out to be a 77 OVR SF (terrible potential though), went 20-12 the next two seasons winning the tournament each time and getting knocked out as the #16 than #15. Finally this most recent season, I'm 27-7, with two four stars close to signing and two three stars already signed. Won the inseason and postseason conference tournaments. Drew Ok State in the first round, sad thing is for a 3 seed, they only have 7 OVR on us (81-88). This is one of the best starts I've had in 2K8.

Starting line up

Foust (SO) 71
Gadson (FR) 74
Cooperwood (JR) 82
French (FR) 75
Kasim (SR) 73

top two reserves
Drayton (SG) SR 72
Lucas (PF) SO 72

I doubt I'll hang out past this season at Howard but I already received a six year extension.

[R1zzo23]

I doubt I'll hang out past this season at Howard but I already received a six year extension.

It is always hard to leave a school, especially when you have a killer recruiting class coming in.

I was at St. John's for I've seasons and my incoming recruiting class featured the best player I have ever recruited in my years of playing College Hoops, but I picked up and left just because it was going to become too easy for me.

Nonetheless, it is enjoyable to play elsewhere and watch your old school perform just as well as when you were there or even better!

[McLite]

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Since this post I've played through 2 more seasons. I ended up winning the NC at UConn for the 3rd straight year in the first. We struggled through the season but after we switched to a 1-3-1 zone we actually learned how to play defense and made a great run through the tourney. We even managed to beat Syracuse in the Final 4 after they killed us twice during the season and in the Big East Tourney.

In the 2nd season we didn't make it to the tourney for the 1st time in my coaching career. We just couldn't beat any of the Big East squads that have been killing us in recruiting for 4 straight seasons. We did make it to the NIT though, and played a relatively easy schedule and won that.

I guess the best news though was from reading this forum I finally picked up some good tips for recruiting and signed 5 guys...2 of them 5*, 3 of them 4*. I converted a PG to SG, and a SG to SF so I now have a completely freshman 2nd squad which comes off the bench. I'm sitting at 9-1 right now after breezing though an easy early season. I did lose to UNC at UNC when they hit 15 3's and I couldn't get a call to go my way in the 2nd half. On to conference play now.

I have continued to stick it out with the 1-3-1 and my center is leading the nation in blocked shots. He was a 3*world player I recruited from Africa who grew to 7'2 and almost a 90 block rating. I edited his hair to 'large afro' so it's hilarious to see him against some of 6'8 centers smaller schools put out. He is pretty agile around the rim too so he get's a ton of dunks. Despite his size he doesn't pull in the boards very well though and is in constant foul trouble because of opposing players getting offensive rebounds inside of him.

Great game. Great depth. What a shame the franchise died.

Amazing that I'm still playing this game. About a year later and I'm 3 seasons down the road again. I just got knocked out of the Sweet 16 by Ole Miss and am now 10-1 the following year. With some improved slider settings I found on here combined with new players every few seasons I can't see myself not playing this game another 10+ seasons.

[K0ZZ]

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It is always hard to leave a school, especially when you have a killer recruiting class coming in.

I was at St. John's for I've seasons and my incoming recruiting class featured the best player I have ever recruited in my years of playing College Hoops, but I picked up and left just because it was going to become too easy for me.

Nonetheless, it is enjoyable to play elsewhere and watch your old school perform just as well as when you were there or even better!

It was pretty tough, I turned Howard into a power house my replacement three seasons later has yet to get double digit losses, I routinely brought in 3/4*'s and I even caught up to Howard in the tournament after winning my conference with UMass. I managed to knock off Howard by 4 and get to the final four before losing to Villanova. It jumped me into Minnesota where I'm having huge issues, but Howard is still doing great.