Ivy Conference in Crum is looking for coaches who enjoy a tough challenge. Make the Ivy conference into an elite by prestige. Basically willing to schedule for the sake of the Conference instead of just the team. Generally speaking schedule teams that have a lower overall rating and a history of winning seasons. Or some Sims you can beat that will probably win most of their games(large Jr. Sr. classes). The gold is an average of 8 non-conference wins per team. Its a very tough challenge, but I think it will be fun and something different to create an elite.

This sounds like an abject impossiblity in the current world of Hoops Dynasty. 

Posted by jslotman on 1/20/2012 10:50:00 AM (view original):
This sounds like an abject impossiblity in the current world of Hoops Dynasty. 

Depends on the coaches. I bet if you gather girt, professor, johnsensing(spelling?), OR etc. into one conf, they will get to elite level pretty quickly. And look at the following conf rpi from Rupp:

Rank	Conference	Prestige	Record	Strength of Schedule	RPI
1.	Conference USA	B-	128-94	.5869	.5920
2.	Big East	B	141-81	.5669	.5867
3.	SEC	A-	138-84	.5689	.5842
4.	PAC 10	B	129-93	.5747	.5776
5.	Big Ten	B	123-99	.5524	.5565
6.	Big 12	B	134-88	.5340	.5502

Thats what I am talking about. That looks fun.

Just be aware that the difficulty level of trying to do this in the Ivy League would be much greater than the CUSA example cited above. The baseline prestiges of CUSA schools are a full letter grade higher than the Ivy. Unless you want the mother of all challenges, I'd try to do something like this in the A-10, CUSA, MAC, MWC, Horizon or Missouri Valley, where at least you're staying away from all the D baseline schools.

I know. I just think it would be more fun to take on a bigger challenge.

Posted by mykids_31206 on 1/20/2012 9:52:00 AM (view original):
Ivy Conference in Crum is looking for coaches who enjoy a tough challenge. Make the Ivy conference into an elite by prestige. Basically willing to schedule for the sake of the Conference instead of just the team. Generally speaking schedule teams that have a lower overall rating and a history of winning seasons. Or some Sims you can beat that will probably win most of their games(large Jr. Sr. classes). The gold is an average of 8 non-conference wins per team. Its a very tough challenge, but I think it will be fun and something different to create an elite.

i'm looking to move up to Penn in a few seasons.... my goal is to be the coach there by the time i step foot on campus (will be a freshman in september!)

trying to do it without taking an intermediary D2 step, but might if i have to

If your goal is penn, go to D2 to a school that will make the NT next year or for sure the year after.  2 seasons of 1st rnd NT exits you'll be qualified for sure.

Posted by reinsel on 1/20/2012 4:19:00 PM (view original):
If your goal is penn, go to D2 to a school that will make the NT next year or for sure the year after.  2 seasons of 1st rnd NT exits you'll be qualified for sure.

I was thinking about taking Albany State, which I think I would've gotten (seeing that a coach of a team that did worse than mine this season in just his first year got the job), but I wasn't quite ready to leave my team, plus they will be a bit of a rebuild with 6 schollies next season.

If I make, let's say, two S16 runs in the next three seasons, will that qualify me?

backboy, because of recent changes to the jobs process, no one really knows the answer right now.

It appears easier than before, but no one knows exactly. It'll also depend on Penn's prestige at the time you're applying.