Quote: Originally Posted By oldave on 10/29/2009

Quote: Originally Posted By vandydave on 10/29/2009

Quote: Originally Posted By mullycj on 10/28/2009

Using FCP with single digit defenders to create +20 TOs per game while also limiting opponents to < 40% shooting.

i thought this thread was for things that no longer work...



hmmmm... things that no longer work, eh?

things that no longer work------> Vandydave?

Quote: Originally Posted By oldresorter on 10/29/2009
I used to try the exact opposite of whatever the latest forum fact whine was about,

in response to 'DT the guards and play -5', I started to DT the big men and play +2 - result it worked so well, eventually daalter convinced CS that I was exploiting a glitch, and the engine was changed (this happenned almost 3 years ago, december and was b4 I started playing elite schools anywhere)

Greatest thing about this story, to the best of my knowledge, CS has never acknowledged that dt the guards / -5 was a glitch.

second best thing about this story, when they took away the 'glitch', they also took away the effectiveness of DT'ing

Quote: Originally posted by dalter on 10/29/2009But OR, I do fondly remember our yearly WConn-Methodist battles in Allen ... man, the non-con skeds I had every season were a blast, w. you, rails, bluespruce, joelhall, stunoell, stevea and a host of HOF coaches packed in every season. I guess that may actually be an old school memory for me ... DIII actually being relevant and full of top-notch coaches.

Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 10/30/2009
Lol, that's right, I remember whenever the brackets would come out and I'd look at potential matchups down the road, it would almost always be guys I'd already played during the season (and the season before ...)

I also remember often leaving non-con play at something like 5-5, thinking "what's wrong with my team", and then storming through my conference would make me remember, "Oh, I just played 10 of the best 20 teams in the country, that's why ..."



daalter - right now I would not even consider doing what we used to do in d3 now in d1, for two main reasons:

1 - elite conf play is so hard, that 10-6 is often a great record, couple with a 5-5 non con, that is 15-11, and that won't cut it in d1, even with a top ten SOS, RPI

2 - HCA is so overwhelming in d1 A+ type teams at least, that away games vs A+ teams simply are no fun (for me), regardless of the coach or the rilvary, even today HCA is almost meaningless in d3

1B - if you don't win 20 plus games, you won't get ranked top ten, regardless of your team's ability, if you don't get ranked, you don't get a high seed, if you don't get a high seed, you need to win one more quality game to win the national title

Quote: Originally Posted By oldresorter on 10/30/2009
polo all the credit in the world to how u promote and pump up your conference, but allen d3 back then was something, all the top guys played each other in the non conf, the minnesota conf had 10-12 top coaches (rails, tarek, stunnell, joe hall, blue spruce), everyone else was kind of scatterred all over. for some reason, the NT worked out that the top 6-8 coaches played each other deep into the tourny - I think I played rails twice a year for 5 out of 6 years during one stretch for example.

noone had to post or sitemail asking guys to play, it just happenned, kind of like that old neighborhood touch football game back in the 'leave it to beaver' era - LOL

Quote: Originally Posted By oldave on 10/28/2009
recruiting with my D3 team in hawaii.

I think i recruited one player ever other year or so from hawaii.

most times they were not quite good enogh for D2, but were plenty good for me.

for instance, several bigmen who had really good RE and LP (like sul pointed out) and became my all-time leading rebounders and scorers

if you happened to get in a battle, the trick was to send literally hundreds of calls and letters. there was no limit in those days and it seemed that these calls and letters were almost as effective, dollar for dollar, as a local home or campus visit, and of course waaay more effective than visits from such a great distance.

oh, one other old school thing that i havent seen lately--- players named T-Bone! in fact, in my very first season ever, i went to hawaii and got a kid named T-Bone Canter who turned into a rebounding monster (still my all time leading rebounder) and whom the oneonta fans nicknamed "Hawaiian Punch". i loved that he was named T-Bone, but later found out that there were several T-Bones around. maybe that name is still around (I cant believe they would have discontinued it) but i havent seen it in quite some time.

Quote: Originally Posted By oldresorter on 10/30/2009

Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 10/30/2009

Lol, that's right, I remember whenever the brackets would come out and I'd look at potential matchups down the road, it would almost always be guys I'd already played during the season (and the season before ...)

I also remember often leaving non-con play at something like 5-5, thinking "what's wrong with my team", and then storming through my conference would make me remember, "Oh, I just played 10 of the best 20 teams in the country, that's why ..."




daalter - right now I would not even consider doing what we used to do in d3 now in d1, for two main reasons:

1 - elite conf play is so hard, that 10-6 is often a great record, couple with a 5-5 non con, that is 15-11, and that won't cut it in d1, even with a top ten SOS, RPI

2 - HCA is so overwhelming in d1 A+ type teams at least, that away games vs A+ teams simply are no fun (for me), regardless of the coach or the rilvary, even today HCA is almost meaningless in d3

1B - if you don't win 20 plus games, you won't get ranked top ten, regardless of your team's ability, if you don't get ranked, you don't get a high seed, if you don't get a high seed, you need to win one more quality game to win the national title