Idea - Coach of the Year Tournament of Champions Topic

bdpoor
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Every year I hate seeing my all conference (and sometimes All American) players walk out the door for the last time. It leaves something to be desired, a last hurrah if you will. Here's my idea for a final go-round for the studs of the conference:

In every conference, the 1st and 2nd team members form a team that composes the all-conference megateam. The conference coach of the year is appointed to the head coach of said team, and the megateam from each conference is entered into a one-day, 32-team "Tournament of Champions". Games could be played every couple hours or something to keep it to a one-day event.

I wouldn't want to provide the winner of this tournament with any extra recruiting cash for the conference (as this would most likely increase disparity between the haves and have-nots), but the coaches of the top 3 teams could win game credits or something. Also, what better way to prove conference dominance than to play it out on the court?

Not sure if this is doable from a programming standpoint, but if so I think it would add a very cool end-season touch to the game. Also for coaches that may not have seen much success during the season, this could make the grind all the more worth it to see their stud players contribute to a championship-caliber team.

Thoughts?

5/15/2012 11:07 AM
cburton23
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This would be a pretty cool idea.  Not sure about the programming end or if coaches would actually game plan, but I think its cool none the less.
5/15/2012 11:14 AM
rednu
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It would be fun to see a few super-teams thrown together to do something like this. The biggest problem I see is it only really works "nicely" for D3, where there are 32 conferences. I'm not sure how you'd fit it in at D2 (23 conferences) or D1 (27 conferences with the Big 6 ready to rain down hell upon all the have-nots of the world...) where it doesn't fit as well on the standardized bracket. (take the top 16 conf. RPI's and seed them on a bracket and everyone else stays home?)
5/15/2012 11:45 AM
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interesting idea. id love to see it. im sure it would cause a lot of angst though, with all the players in conference who are better than the 1st and 2nd teamers getting left off. maybe you should get like, the entire 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HM as your roster, and maybe like 5 extra players voted in by the conference, and you just get to pick who you play. did someone say press? i guess IQs would have to be normalized.

i know our conference would love that. and you can bet your *** someone would game plan. most likely, like 5 of us. we couldn't stand it to see the MIAA beat us at something! im sure those snaky bastards would find a way to cheat though, as usual.... (ok, i guess i can't think of anything they've done that was not 100% above board... but IM SURE THEY HAVE DONE IT ANYWAY!!!)
5/15/2012 11:51 AM
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Posted by gillispie1 on 5/15/2012 11:51:00 AM (view original):
interesting idea. id love to see it. im sure it would cause a lot of angst though, with all the players in conference who are better than the 1st and 2nd teamers getting left off. maybe you should get like, the entire 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HM as your roster, and maybe like 5 extra players voted in by the conference, and you just get to pick who you play. did someone say press? i guess IQs would have to be normalized.

i know our conference would love that. and you can bet your *** someone would game plan. most likely, like 5 of us. we couldn't stand it to see the MIAA beat us at something! im sure those snaky bastards would find a way to cheat though, as usual.... (ok, i guess i can't think of anything they've done that was not 100% above board... but IM SURE THEY HAVE DONE IT ANYWAY!!!)
Remember Gillispie, it's okay to cheat as long as you don't respect the competition.  Can't remember who posted that in a thread recently, but I know I've read it somewhere.
5/15/2012 1:21 PM
emy1013
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Posted by bdpoor on 5/15/2012 11:07:00 AM (view original):

Every year I hate seeing my all conference (and sometimes All American) players walk out the door for the last time. It leaves something to be desired, a last hurrah if you will. Here's my idea for a final go-round for the studs of the conference:

In every conference, the 1st and 2nd team members form a team that composes the all-conference megateam. The conference coach of the year is appointed to the head coach of said team, and the megateam from each conference is entered into a one-day, 32-team "Tournament of Champions". Games could be played every couple hours or something to keep it to a one-day event.

I wouldn't want to provide the winner of this tournament with any extra recruiting cash for the conference (as this would most likely increase disparity between the haves and have-nots), but the coaches of the top 3 teams could win game credits or something. Also, what better way to prove conference dominance than to play it out on the court?

Not sure if this is doable from a programming standpoint, but if so I think it would add a very cool end-season touch to the game. Also for coaches that may not have seen much success during the season, this could make the grind all the more worth it to see their stud players contribute to a championship-caliber team.

Thoughts?

This would be pretty cool, but since we haven't heard from Seble in a few months now, I'd say the chances of anything like this happening are less than zero.  I mean, we have been promised that preseason tournaments of some kind were going to be instituted for about four calendar years now, and obviously that hasn't happened.  Still, I really think this would be neat.
5/16/2012 2:49 AM
Idea - Coach of the Year Tournament of Champions Topic
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