The conference chat is out of control (as always) so I'll post my thoughts here. Hopefully posting it on the Leahy board and not on the main board will get more coaches checking this board.....lol
Consider this a form of counseling. I might sound angry with some of this but I really would like to see us work through this and have us come back next season.
Brief resume for the twelve coaches currently in this conference:
bkdries: 410 seasons 145 CCs 25 NCs
chetty1963: 381 seasons 92 CCs 14 NCs
buckeyedick: 367 seasons 120 CCs 6 NCs
lyonzfan: 229 seasons 55 CCs 8 NCs
ebel331: 179 seasons 71 CCs 9 NCs
hawkfan1992: 98 seasons 8 CCs
tigerpark135: 96 seasons 47 CCs 6 NCs
blitziscomin: 96 seasons 24 CCs 2 NCs
horvie78: 72 seasons 18 CCs 1 NC
zach1442: 70 seasons 14 CCs
winstonis: 44 seasons 15 CCs 1 NC
coachkb: 25 seasons 2 CCs
12 coach total: 2,067 total seasons with 611 combined CCs and 72 combined NCs
12 coach average: 172.25 seasons, 50.9 CCs, and 6 NCs
I think it is probably the best top to bottom resume in all of GD!
Conference Drama
It seems like tigerpark135 is a magnet for insanity in GD. I am not sure if tigerpark135 knows how to type anything in a conference chat or in a forum post without making everyone that reads it furious - it is simply stunning.
I didn't think it was possible for anyone to irritate ebel or chetty. They are two of the most active and committed coaches in the community. They make every world a better place that they are active in.
If you can't have a great relationship with bkdries, ebel331, and chetty1963 while playing this game you should spend some time thinking about what the underlying issues are.
Story for TP
I want to share a similar experience we both recently had with ebel331. Last season in Bryant I noticed that ebel331 joined West Virginia. I know he runs the shotgun and he needs a great QB for it to work. I have watched him spend big $$$ in Wilkinson on QBs at Houston to turn that program into a Level 5 Bowl powerhouse. I knew he didn't have any bowl money and I had a lot of bowl money coming off a great season at Michigan.
Recruiting time comes and I find a couple nice QBs. I pursue them the first cycle of recruiting and West Virginia is chasing them also. I know Ebel will spend a lot of $$$ on a QB so I stop pursuing the closest QB to him - even though the QB had a great scouting report and was the best QB I was looking at. I don't want a $100k+ battle so I move on and find another QB (that I think is better). I go to the Big East chat during recruiting and say something like "Ebel we have great tastes in QBs LOL" We both end up with great classes with no sims and high potential QBs to redshirt.
Within two weeks of this incident Ebel is recruiting for Purdue team in Leahy. It has been a sim team that hasn't gone to a bowl in over 80 seasons. Obviously he is going to recruit a QB for his shotgun and he has zero talent on his team. He ends up pursuing a QB that you like. You decide you can't move on to another QB and have to ruin his recruit class. He doesn't get a QB and takes a class full of sims.
I don't have a problem that you did this.
The problem I have is after you crushed him on the QB you acted like a baby. You whined in conference chat that Ebel was pursuing a QB you liked. Ebel said something jokingly like "I'll spend all my money on this QB" in conference chat. What do you do? You call out Ebel as a cheater. You claim that the other conference coaches will take advantage of you. Did we? Then you go and whine to customer service! You complain to customer service that Ebel has said in conference chat that he will spend all of his money on a QB --- crime of the century! Hopefully WIS customer support sent you a pacifier to settle you down.
Then recently you give us this little gem in conference chat
unfortunately some coaches haven't yet been able to grasp the concept of the "big picture" and how it would ultimately benefit them. what ebel did last season spending an entire bankroll on one player ultimately wrecking his class makes zero sense. Btw, that qb last season was "low potential.
chetty1963 was reading this and thought the same thing I probably did. He said in a nice way that he is done with your stupidity and is leaving the conference. How do you respond?
Chetty, you only further my point. A local BCS school cannot win a battle against an elite when all things remain equal. No more so than a midmajor can win against you. As for the "big picture", why would I want to bury a team that can ultimately create more. Virginia was able to take the 2nd best DL in the nation while big ten teams were cutting themselves up. That is the big picture to which I refer. If you can't see it; then I am glad you are going.
The coaches in this conference have enough experience at this game to figure out how to play it without tigerpark135 criticizing them.
Tigerpark135 does it bother you at all that chetty1963 wants to leave the conference because of you?
Can you see that you could share some of the blame for ebel's recruiting failings in his first season?
Do you see the big picture?