Hey me again, I'm a noob but i'm learning.

1st- Is there any visual representation that you can anticipate being ready for d1? For instance at the end of this season I will have an A+ Reputation and an A+ Loyalty and hopefully I will have my 3rd 20 win season in a row and last season was conference championship, CT championship and a conference coach of the year. I want to transition to D1 and build a squad at that level and really don't care if its a good or bad school, I mainly just want to get to that level and settle in for the long haul. What is the easiest way to be sure that when the jobs come around you'll have some opportunity.

2- Looking at assigning distribution I'm facing a sim this week in smith and I have a PG with a low PE 39 a BH of 69 a SPD of 69 but the PG on the sim team has a 99 SPD 27 DEF and a A Def IQ, the question is since his DEF is so low is there anychance he can have some offensive proficiency with the low PE and the other guard having 99SPD?

Thanks everyone! You all are tremondous help! I WILL win a national championship someday!

I'll touch on the first question.  The best way to boost your D1 resume, at any level, is NT success.  I don't have a ton of experience transitioning from D2 to D1, but my Valdosta St resume qualified me for C prestige jobs after just 6 seasons at D2.  A HUGE part of that, no doubt, was the FF run we had.  At D1 though, it's a whole new ball game.  I would HIGHLY recommend waiting until you are qualified for a C- job rather than just jumping into a D- program as soon as you are qualified.  D1 is ALL about prestige when it comes to recruiting and there is a vast difference in the recruits you can talk to when you're D-, D, D+, and C-.  The reason I recommend C- is assuming you take over a full rebuild, you can almost certainly expect a drop in prestige after your first season and at D+ you can still talk to kids ranked between 50 and 60 at their position.  At D prestige, kids ranked between 61-90 (maybe even 100, not sure) are backups.  I've never recruited with D- so I don't know what kind of dropoff that entails.  But b/c of the prestige multipliers for recruiting at D1, winning battles with a D- is really, really hard, even against simmy.

In regards to your questions specifically, I'm not sure if conference championships or COY play any role in boosting your D1 resume, but the CT championship certainly does since it gets you to the NT.

That said, if your goal at D1 is to get to a big 6 conference, then taking over a program in a predominantly sim-filled conference is the way to go, assuming you can win your CT year after year and make appearances in the NT.  

Posted by darnoc29099 on 8/30/2014 1:44:00 PM (view original):
I'll touch on the first question.  The best way to boost your D1 resume, at any level, is NT success.  I don't have a ton of experience transitioning from D2 to D1, but my Valdosta St resume qualified me for C prestige jobs after just 6 seasons at D2.  A HUGE part of that, no doubt, was the FF run we had.  At D1 though, it's a whole new ball game.  I would HIGHLY recommend waiting until you are qualified for a C- job rather than just jumping into a D- program as soon as you are qualified.  D1 is ALL about prestige when it comes to recruiting and there is a vast difference in the recruits you can talk to when you're D-, D, D+, and C-.  The reason I recommend C- is assuming you take over a full rebuild, you can almost certainly expect a drop in prestige after your first season and at D+ you can still talk to kids ranked between 50 and 60 at their position.  At D prestige, kids ranked between 61-90 (maybe even 100, not sure) are backups.  I've never recruited with D- so I don't know what kind of dropoff that entails.  But b/c of the prestige multipliers for recruiting at D1, winning battles with a D- is really, really hard, even against simmy.

In regards to your questions specifically, I'm not sure if conference championships or COY play any role in boosting your D1 resume, but the CT championship certainly does since it gets you to the NT.

That said, if your goal at D1 is to get to a big 6 conference, then taking over a program in a predominantly sim-filled conference is the way to go, assuming you can win your CT year after year and make appearances in the NT.  

Thanks Darnoc, I have had very good success so far against SIM programs including ones 20-30 rating higher than me especially last season in D2. I feel I have a good understanding on how to beat them. My hope was to get into a conference rated between 15-20 and yes I'd love to coach in the Big10. My end goal is to reach the big 10 so honestly I was looking at conferences in the midwest like the Horizon or even the MAC. Potentially picking up W. Mich (D+) or even Marquette (C). I also want to try to maintain the same offense/defense Motion/man because I dont want to spend 2-3 seasons changing the the scheme. I have no problem spending 2-5 seasons losing 15+ games and learning. Honestly I'm planning on that, I compare my outlook to Waynedrayer at Oregon St, when he took over season 31 it took him until Season 40 to find consistency and now Oregon St. is consistently top 10 in D1. Hopefully I can sneak into D1 soon :)