Interesting things that's happened in legacy.

[Flash3]

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I left Princeton to coach Hofstra, and then the following year I make the tournament as a #5 seed with Hofstra, and my first round matchup happens to be none other than Princeton, who I beat by 30. I love this game


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[Brock]

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Well in a heartbreaker, my Kentucky team lost to Syracuse 80-73 in the Nat'l title game. This brings my final four/championship record to 2-4, and back-to-back title appearances with a lost.

[Brock]

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I started the new year in my legacy, and saw the tallest AA Center I've seen.

[grismosw]

Interesting things that's happened in legacy.

Damn...he'd be fun to play with. That's one of my few gripes with the game the lack of high end talent with size. Guys like that should be #1 recruit...not burried behind a bunch of PG and SG


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[R1zzo23]

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True and almost all the tallest centers are 3* prospects.


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[Dawgfan1]

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Oh man do I have stories to tell! I'll go ahead and talk about a legacy I did a year ago and my current legacy (they will be spoiler tagged because there will be a lot of text).

Note: Both legacies use the 2007-08 rosters because I prefer using the rosters the game was made for.

Legacy #1:

Spoiler

So, after two years at Chattanooga and three years at Kent State which included two consecutive Sweet 16 appearances, I took my first power conference job: DePaul. They were at the cellar of the Big East, so I knew that it would be a great (and fun, especially with their awesome uniforms) challenge building them up.

And boy, was I right. We made the NIT in my first year, losing in the first round to finish 20-14. The second year was easily the most forgettable, with my coach getting his first ever losing season at 15-16. But things started to get better after that, with the foundations for a winning program having been laid down. Year 3 ended with another NIT appearance, but we made it all the way to the semifinals, finishing with a 21-13 record. The next year, we got our first NCAA Tournament bid (as a 10-seed), making it to the second round and losing to 2nd-seeded Iowa to end up with another 21-13 record.

Year 5 was the breakout year. We had a fantastic year, winning the Big East Regular Season Championship and showing up in the rankings late in the season. We lost pretty early in the conference tournament, but nonetheless, we got a 2-seed in the tourney. After blitzing past our first two opponents, we ran into Iowa again (they were a 6-seed this time), who beat us to end our season (29-7) in the Sweet 16.

But that's not the end of it. After the season ended, I noticed that Georgia had finally fired their coach after a 9-20 season, and they offered me the job. I wouldn't normally take a job like this after all I had done at DePaul, but it was Georgia. I had to take the job, and I did, leaving DePaul after five seasons. DePaul ended up hiring UC Riverside coach Jim Wooldridge for some reason.

Much like DePaul, Georgia was at the cellar of their conference, so it was another rebuilding project, though it got off to a fast start. In my first season there, we got a surprise NCAA Tournament bid as a 11-seed, and we pulled off two upsets, making the Sweet Sixteen. We finished with a 20-13 record. The next season, we dropped a bit, going to the NIT, although we made the quarterfinals, finishing with an 18-15 record. The next year, we somehow finished first in the SEC, and we made the second round of the NCAA Tournament, ending up 23-10.

But the next year was the best (and it is also the most recent season that I have finished). Even though we didn't win the regular season championship, we were still ranked very highly, and despite a loss in the first round of the conference tournament, we received a 2-seed in the NCAA Tournament. We easily defeated Boston University and Clemson, and scraped by 6-seed Washington 81-77 to head to the Elite Eight for only the second time. And who was our opponent? Good ol' DePaul, who was the overall 1-seed and had been enjoying a great four seasons under Wooldridge, making the First Round, Sweet Sixteen, Second Round, and now Elite Eight as 6, 2, 8, and 1 seeds respectively. They had a ridiculous overall rating, 95 (ours was 89), and tons of veteran leadership, so they were quite the opponent. Our matchup was one for the ages, with neither team truly pulling away all game, and regulation ended with the score tied at 81. But once overtime started, we were all over DePaul, and we emerged victorious, winning 95-90 behind 21 points from sophomore point guard Fernandez Ingram and 25 points from freshman center Armein Almond. We lost in the Final Four to eventual champions, Stanford, unfortunately (Georgia has a habit of losing in the Final Four to eventual champions who also have an "S" in their logo), but it was still a fantastic season. I haven't played this legacy in almost a year, but I will come back to it again.

Legacy #2:

Spoiler

In this legacy, I decided to start with Radford, mostly because they were in a conference where everybody plays in the conference tournament, and also because none of their starters were seniors. Anyways, I ended up spending five years at Radford. We made the tournament three times (Years 2, 4, and 5) as 13, 12, and 8 seeds, although we never made it past the First Round.

It only took me three years to get Radford to the top of the Big South conference with an overall in the high 70s (our overall was 79 during our last year). We finished 11-16 in my first year, and 21-11 the next year, which was the year we made the tournament. But after the season, I got a stroke of luck when I saw that we had THREE players transfer to Radford, one of which was 7' 0" center. They had to sit out a year, of course (we finished 10-19 that year), but once they were eligible, we catapulted to the summit of the conference. During the only two years that we had them (they transferred as sophomores, and were redshirted the year they were ineligible), we were unstoppable. In my fourth season, we finished 22-10, winning the regular season and tournament championship a second time. We lost to 5-seed Texas A&M in the First Round and, but the greatest success was still yet to come. In my final year at Radford, we finished with a 25-7 record, running the table in conference play and ending up with an 8-seed in the tournament, losing to Rhode Island in the First Round.

After that, I finally got a mid-major offer for the Valparaiso Crusaders, who were looking for a new coach after Homer Drew retired, and I accepted it (fun fact: in the other legacy I talked about, I turned down a Valpo offer to coach Kent State). I inherited a pretty good team, one that had just barely missed the NCAA Tournament the previous year. In my first year, which is also the year that I am currently playing, we have finished first in the Horizon with a 15-3 conference record, and our record currently stands at 22-7 heading into the tournament, with our first opponent being Loyola (IL). Unfortunately, our star 7' 0" center Dipo Smalls, who is leading the conference in scoring at 19 PPG, was injured during the last week of the season, so we will be without him until at least the conference championship, if we make it that far.

Also, I have a pretty funny discovery. After reading through this thread yesterday, I decided to check the head coaches of a few teams, including Illinois-Chicago, who is the only team in my conference to beat us twice this season. So I go to the coaches page to find out who Illinois-Chicago's head coach is, and who do I find? Everybody's favorite rival coach Kevin Broadus, who is also in his inaugural season at the school! I couldn't help but laugh when I saw that.

[Brock]

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New year bump!

[R1zzo23]

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Although I haven't played this game in years I'm still following this thread because I love hearing all the little things you guys find in this game. I wish they would just create this same game with the new 2k engine. I would buy that in a heart beat!


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[Brock]

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Although I haven't played this game in years I'm still following this thread because I love hearing all the little things you guys find in this game. I wish they would just create this same game with the new 2k engine. I would buy that in a heart beat!


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Yeah, I always wish they would have at least stopped at 2k9. Loved the animations that year.

[Brock]

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Has anyone ever had or seen a team with that had a dynasty as long/powerful as Alabama?

Closest I've ever seen was Georgia Tech in my legacy, they didn't win back to back, but they had 3 titles in 9 years and always had great recruiting classes. They recently won a title after about 10+ years to capture their 4th, the most titles won in my 35-36 year long legacy.

[Brock]

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Annual bump.

I saw a 2 OT championship game in my legacy. Wasn't my team, but was one of the greatest Natty title games I've seen. I can post the recording of it if you guys want to see it.

[Brock]

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I read through the whole thread a while back and was amazed at how detailed my posts were, and wondering why I stopped doing it. I'll probably write of a review of the last two seasons, and a few updates to previous updates.

Random question: Does anyone else import draft classes into NBA 2K8 just follow careers of former players and storylines from choops into NBA? I used to just advanced through the seasons but it felt empty since I wasn't importing classes especially since I was finally getting freshmen to leave.

Edit: Also has anyone seen any unique recruits? Doesn't have to be your own. I've been following recruits in general lately and even though they're not entirely the same, most of the prospects are pretty cookie cutter.

[l3ulvl]

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I read through the whole thread a while back and was amazed at how detailed my posts were, and wondering why I stopped doing it. I'll probably write of a review of the last two seasons, and a few updates to previous updates.

Random question: Does anyone else import draft classes into NBA 2K8 just follow careers of former players and storylines from choops into NBA? I used to just advanced through the seasons but it felt empty since I wasn't importing classes especially since I was finally getting freshmen to leave.

Edit: Also has anyone seen any unique recruits? Doesn't have to be your own. I've been following recruits in general lately and even though they're not entirely the same, most of the prospects are pretty cookie cutter.

I have a stockpile of 2k8 draft classes waiting to be imported to NBA 2k8, but my ps3 doesn't read discs anymore so I'm just waiting til I can afford I new one. My plan was to import year after year of michigan graduates, then eventually draft an all Michigan alumni NBA team. Years later, I still want this to happen

[ddf77]

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Every year I start a new legacy. Im more of a sim individual so reaching the max of 40 years happens by the time college basketball season is actually over. I use the original rosters and start with uc riverside. On one of my legacies, by year 10 with uc riverside I was dominating the big west, and averaging top 10 recruiting classes with the best players from the state of California. I focused primarily on instate recruits and reaped the benefits. I got bored by around year 20 and even though I had won national championships with them, I left for a more prestigious conference and landed with KU once Self retired. Didnt have near the success there, and ended up going back to UC Riverside after year 8, and finished the last 12 years there to finish out the career. What I would give for this game to get an update on the current 2k engine.

[SmackeyAvery]

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I read through the whole thread a while back and was amazed at how detailed my posts were, and wondering why I stopped doing it. I'll probably write of a review of the last two seasons, and a few updates to previous updates.

Random question: Does anyone else import draft classes into NBA 2K8 just follow careers of former players and storylines from choops into NBA? I used to just advanced through the seasons but it felt empty since I wasn't importing classes especially since I was finally getting freshmen to leave.

Edit: Also has anyone seen any unique recruits? Doesn't have to be your own. I've been following recruits in general lately and even though they're not entirely the same, most of the prospects are pretty cookie cutter.

True story. One of my recruits from 2K8 was Smackey Avery. Hence my username on here and on Xbox.