The Knight Upstate was the 3rd-ranked conference this season in Knight D3.  We brought in just short of $3000/team in postseason money for recruiting next season (11 NT games, 2 PIT games).  We did all of this with 4 human coaches.  A couple of the sim teams look like very interesting takeovers for next season for any coaches interested in getting into Knight D3 in a conference with the foundation to become very strong very quickly.

Rensselaer - These guys are going to have 7 seniors next year.  They aren't great seniors, but a couple of them aren't bad and it could easily be enough to make the NT and maybe even win a game or 2 if you find the right JUCO to bring in.

Hamilton - This is a team that will have 6 seniors next year, and they're a decently athletic group for a bunch of sim-recruited guys.  They also have 6 openings for you to recruit with, so you're going to have all your own players within 2 years here.  Obviously the interesting part will be balancing the classes, unless of course you just want to roll with the unbalanced classes and try to have a huge year 3 seasons down the road...

Brandeis - 7 seniors, couple of junior SFs, the talent is average but the turnover would be quick.

Case Western Reserve - Another one with 6 seniors next year.  Again, they're not great, although you do have one guard with 90+ PER.  Not much else, but he can shoot it...

Washington (Mo.) - 8 (EIGHT!) seniors on this one.  They're really not very good, but if you feel you can recruit 7 or 8 guys at once you could put together a pretty big team in a hurry here.

Honestly, the ultimate message from all this is that with 4 decent human-coached teams and 5 teams with at least 6 seniors, the Upstate is poised to have a very big season next year in Knight D3.  Seems like a great time to jump into an already-solid conference.

Good group of owners in the UPSTATE.  Excluding myself everyone else pretty nice and knowledgable.  Creepers, other than me they all spell well, too.

Way to name the wrong conference there TJ...

Seriously, though, a couple of these teams would be really strong pickups, particularly Rensselaer and Hamilton I would say.

Oops....fixed it!

NOW IS THE TIME.  GO GO GO GO GO!!!

Well, you all missed out.  We were third in conference RPI this season and I think combined for 13 total NT games.  Of course, that means we have a decent amount of postseason cash this recruiting season.  All those teams that had 6+ seniors now have 6+ openings.  Quick rebuilds, we already have 3 A+ and an A- program in-conference.  Now is the time again...

If you take Case you will have all your own players within 2 seasons.  WashMo would give you 11 of your own guys in that same time frame.  The challenge, of course, would be balancing classes with no underclassmen currently on the roster.