Posted by adlorenz on 11/30/2020 2:26:00 PM (view original):
Gillispie1, not gonna let me off the hook without an introduction in here, lol.

How's it going? Quick introduction for me I started playing HD in 2015 and found my home in the Peach Belt in IBA. Pretty much got comfortable there because I met players like teamvip and bedarded who were some of the top team in IBA at the time so I picked their brains and it seems I picked the game up fairly quickly. I won a couple D2 Ships and went to a couple more NT games in my fairly short tenure and during the process met more folks in the PB like pdxblazerfan, towlie, skinnycat, rupp, mobbish, and a few others that came and went. Life got busy and I left my Kennesaw State Owls on auto renew for about 5-6 seasons and ran the entire program into the ground and I came back about 6-7 season ago and tried my hand at rebuilding the mess I made. (Honestly... not as much fun....).

So yeah, I am a WhatIfSports guy at my core and jumping over to SportsHub/WhatIfSports from my previous role, is a bit of a passion project of a job. It wasn't really meant to be an omission from my introduction, but HD is one of about 8 different game modes and I wanted folks to know I am passionate about WhatIfSports, not just HD. All of the game modes are great but need a bit of love to help get them to the next level. My biggest fear in taking this role was losing the fun that I've had playing with my Kennesaw team over the last 4-5 years, because the varying levels of happiness and rage I have gotten from that fake basketball program is worth ever cent I've ever dumped into this game.

I am not sure if that is all the information you wanted to know.

-Adam

PS. I am not a Cincinnati guy I grew up in the Great Plains/ Midwest and lived in Orange County until fairly recently.

thanks for indulging me, it is good to hear your HD backstory. and it is awesome that you were an HD coach in your personal life before coming to WIS! i'm not exactly clear on who will be doing what over there, and i suspect you all will be figuring that out over the next couple months anyway, but no matter what it is great to have a fan of the games working there.

Yeah, I edited my originally introduction to include a link to our new developer, he started today to start cross training and knowledge transfer with seble ASAP. There's two of us right now so there is going to be a lot of crossover, but I am lucky with how talented he is.

Welcome back hugh, great to have you back.

It's always nice to face the developers. It will never be as good as the fun I used to have with Tarek at the beginning of the game when he would justify his reasoning and I would insist he was wrong.... and then a few months later they would make the change I said needed to be made. That said, I'm now friends with him on Facebook and we've had some good talks about WIS. That's why I love this game. You don't just play the game, you can even get to know the people who make the game. They aren't some people behind a monitor who just take our money and never interact.

Posted by adlorenz on 11/30/2020 6:42:00 PM (view original):
Yeah, I edited my originally introduction to include a link to our new developer, he started today to start cross training and knowledge transfer with seble ASAP. There's two of us right now so there is going to be a lot of crossover, but I am lucky with how talented he is.

Belated congratulations adlorenz! Looks like we overlapped a few seasons in D-II Iba when I was at Incarnate Word (before moving up to Missouri). Looking forward to someone in your position with a passion for the game.