The best D1 World Topic

What is the best D1 World? Considering Phelan has fewer openings in the big six, 135 coaches, A-10, 5 coaches, CUSA 8 coaches, Horizon, 2 coaches, MWC, 7 coaches,to Tarkanian, 137 coaches, A-10, 8 coaches, CUSA, 10 coaches, Horizon, 2 coaches, MWC 8 coaches.

Tarkanian D1 has been dominated by Gillespie, Kansas, and then there are other coaches like JBasnight, JWinner, JustinLee and ACN that makes it interesting. Oldresorter, Kimball, pcclark also get in the competition from time to time.

Phelan D1 is more even at the big Six level. pcclark has won three in 11 seasons, jgsolari has lost four NT games... (unlucky)
Justinlee, Jbasnight, Jwinner do not compete in Phelan D1. Or did I see wrong? Gillespie is trying to win at St-Bonaventure's, and he is doing pretty well, but prestige is holding him back.

So what's the best D1 in your opinion? Don't tell me Allen. It's not. Maybe ACC Allen is the best conference but the rest does not come close to Phelan or Tarkanian. I'd say Knight and Rupp have passed Allen.
Votes: 45
(Last vote received: 5/8/2016 11:29 AM)
5/2/2016 8:33 AM
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5/2/2016 1:52 PM
i dont have my desktop up right now (carpets were getting cleaned, had to pack it up), but i'll take a look later on when i get it up. i calculate world strength, its a necessary component to be able to compare dynasties across worlds and time periods. i do believe tark ranked as the #1 d1 world by strength as of a season ago, but im not 100% on that.

edit: also, don't like, compare what i do in one world to another. i just am trying to tread water at st bon so i can play it a little in the new update. i definitely wouldn't say im trying to win or held back by prestige, i'm held back by not giving a crap. when i wrote world strength, i considered factoring in WHO each coach was - but the problem is, so many coaches have places they get more or less into it, and it looked like a giant quagmire, that wouldn't add much accuracy. so, i don't think you can really look at it that way, as in like, well gillispie just won 5 at kansas and st bon is garbage, so tark much be easier, or anything like that. IMO, being familiar with d1 in the 2/day worlds, i think tark is the hardest, but i certainly have a personal bias. tark has always been tough because it was both the first new world ever (for the most part - new worlds came out but it was never much longer after the last world, and then there was a many year gap, and then tark came out - so it was unique in that way). also, it was the first 2/day and the only for what, 5 years? so, i feel like most people who were really competitive went for tark, and i think thats a big part of why of the like 10 or so truly awe inspiring events in the game, half have happened in tark.
5/2/2016 7:15 PM (edited)
Two Big Six teams to fill in Phelan : Mississippi B, Washington State C+. Join us.

5/3/2016 7:53 AM
the lack of parody at the top does not speak to Tark's strength. Also have 8 power 6 jobs open.
5/3/2016 12:38 PM
Arkansas opened, b. All human recruits
5/3/2016 6:26 PM
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