Kman's & Cowboy's Apartment Dynasty

[kmanharris]

Ok, here we go. This will be a place where I, and Cowboys if he is up for it, write random write-ups and updates, keep track of season ending stats, national champions, recruits, etc.

Why am I posting this you ask? Well, last year we went 10 seasons deep into our dynasty and had trouble remembering what the hell happened back in season 1. Currently, we are about to move into an apartment and plan on going 20+ seasons this year. It'll be fun to see the progression of everything over time. This tracker is more for us than for you but feel free to sit back and enjoy the ride.

The settings will be standard heisman for everything and 5 minute quarters.

[kmanharris]

A look back and a look ahead

Where did it all begin?

Summer 2010

The summer of 2010 saw both participants on separate consoles. I was on the Xbox 360 while Cowboys was on the PS3. There we were, standing in line at the midnight release when we began talking about doing a dynasty together. The line was long, and the people next to us retarded, so we went off into our own little world. We hyped it up, as we so often do with spur of the moment ideas, as a fantastic plan that could potentially be our greatest gaming feat thus far. Of course, we talked about completing a full 30 season dynasty. Now, that was never a realistic goal but we continued to talk about it and get more and more excited for the next 20 or so minutes until we each received our separate copies. A little after midnight, we left our local Gamestop and headed our separate ways to play our new game.

The talks continued the following day and we decided to begin a dynasty on the PS3. We both decided it would be for the best if we took the two worst teams in the game and tried to bring them to glory. I chose UAB while Cowboys chose North Texas.

I went over to Cowboy's house to play our dynasty. We routinely pulled off 24 hour days of straight gaming that included lots of energy drinks, junk food, and irrational thoughts from the host's mother. Everything was going great and we were mowing down seasons. Then, "Switchgate 2010" happened. This was an awful time for our dynasty and one that still confuses me. Let me break it down.
We had been playing for a good couple of hours. We never enabled the auto-save feature because it was horrible and takes too god damn long. I got up to turn on/off the light and hit the switch. Apparently, whoever wired Cowboy's house was a fucking idiot and instead of the light switch being attached to, you know, a light it acted as an on/off switch for the TV and the outlets behind the TV. Everything shut down and we lost hours of gaming time that we had to replay. We stood there in disbelief and I immediately went into a defensive mode and questioned the validity of the electrician. There was nothing we could do besides replay all the games that we just lost. After Switchgate, we vowed to never try turning any lights on or off again until after we knew the game was saved.

We persevered through Switchgate and got through about 5 seasons before he had to go back up to Uconn and end our 2010 dynasty. However, we vowed that next year would be better.

Summer 2011

The next year flew by and before we knew it July was already here. A big change occurred in the beginning of 2011. My Xbox broke, again, and I made the jump to PS3. What this meant was that instead of doing a dynasty where we both had to be there in order to play games, an online dynasty was a better option.

The two worst teams in the game this year were Akron (My team) and Eastern Michigan (Cowboys). Something happened in the first season that I didn’t even know was possible. We both got off to horrible starts and ended the year we awful records. I think I finished with 3 wins and Cowboys had 1 or 2. With the new Coaching Carousel, I retained my job but Cowboys was fired. This meant we had to restart the game or else risk our whole dynasty being thrown off. Luckily, we had just saved it (thank you auto-save) and went into the off-season again. This time Cowboys was able to keep his job and was never at risk to lose it again.

NCAA 12 treated us like pieces of shit. We went through 10 seasons before calling it quits and it was 10 seasons filled was screw job after screw job. Besides Cowboys almost being fired after season 1, I was screwed out of the national championship game twice. Once, I finished 3rd in the polls and the other time Illinois fucked me. The Illinois game was back and forth and it came down to one play. I was up 4 with only a few seconds left and Illinois had the ball at midfield. I played a prevent defense and the Illinois QB, while getting smacked, threw up a hailmary into the end zone. My defenders were in great position and went to swat it down. The ball went THROUGH my defender and into the hands of an Illinois’ receiver in the end zone for the game winning touchdown. At the time I was #1 in the polls and that loss knocked me out of the top 10. I finished the season at 11-1 and finished top 5 in the polls. Both Cowboys and I were only able to compile a few conference championships and one national championship over the 10 seasons that we played.

Summer 2012

Currently we are waiting for the PS3 rosters from OS to be complete and then we are going to dive into our dynasty. I will be the coach of UMASS while Cowboys coaches UTSA. NCAA 13 will be played in our own apartment, on our own 55’’ TV, with our own surround sound. I can safely say we are both looking forward to the shenanigans that NCAA 13 will bring us.

[DaBlakeness]

Yes I am up for it dawg... Can't wait for roster so we can go HAM... Also love that you decided that it should be called Apartment Dynasty based on where we will be playing and based nothing around the actual sport of football... LETS GO... And yes everyone if you'd like to watch it will be one hell of a ride.

[kyhadley]

I look forward to it, will follow along.

[kmanharris]

Ok, I wrote a lot more than I thought I would write but I had to include the Switchgate story and the Illinois Screw Job. Unbelievable.

[DaBlakeness]

I loved that. And I have lived in that house since I was 3. 20 years later and I'm still not positive which switch does the outside light or the TV. It's the dumbest thing ever. Since you mentioned I got fired, I am going to have to mention that the ONE national championship won by us was by me. I just needed to balance out my suck with my good.

[kyhadley]

Wait so you guys met at a midnight release and now are roommates? That's awesome!

[kmanharris]

Wait so you guys met at a midnight release and now are roommates? That's awesome!

That would have been awesome but we met freshman year in high school. We just went to the midnight release together.

[kyhadley]

That would have been awesome but we met freshman year in high school. We just went to the midnight release together.

Ohhh. Yeah that makes more sense after rereading your post (sober).

[kmanharris]

2012-2013 UMASS Minutemen

The FBS Era Begins

2012-2013 Roster

Offense: Overall D

QB
Kellen Pagel 67
AJ Doyle 65
Matthew Quinn 62

HB
Alan Williams 69
Stacey Bedell 68
Jordan Broadnax 68
Michael Cox 66

FB
Matthew Carini 56

WR
Deion Walker 74
Marken Michel 68
Julian Colarusso 66
Rodney Mills 66
Chase Danska 65
Derek Beck 64

TE
Rob Blanchflower 67
Dan Foesel 61
Brandon Howard 53

LT
Nick Speller 74
Matthew Sparks 64

LG
Vincent Westcarr 63

C
Quinton Sparks 71

RG
Stephane Milhim 70

RT
Anthony Dima 68

Defense: Overall D

LE
Brandon Potvin 70
Daniel Maynes 62

RE
Ryan Dealire 64
Trey Seals 50

DT
Hafis Williams 76
Charles Thompson 68
Galen Clemons 62
Kevin Byrne 52
Tyler Major 48

LOLB
Chad Hunte 71
Greg Hilliard 60

MLB
Perry Mcintyre 77

ROLB
DJ Adeoba 67
Tim Brandt 62

CB
Antoine Tharpe 69
Randall Jette 66
Ed Saint Vil 65
Ryan Carter 64
D'metrius Williams 64

FS
Darren Thellen 75
Trey Dudley Giles 67

SS
Christian Birt 56
Ryan Collins 56

Special Teams: Overall D

K
Brandon Levengood 67

P
Jeff Strait 76

[kmanharris]

Season begins tonight! It is going to be one hell of a season with these schmucks.

[kmanharris]

We are currently 5 weeks in and things have already gone to shit. UMASS is sitting at 1-4, 3 of those losses came in VERY winnable games.

Game 1:
Lost to UCONN when Johnny Mac broke a sack and threw a hail mary into the endzone with around a minute or so left in the game. On my possession, my QB underthrew my WR by about 25 yards and ended the game with an INT. Little did I realize, 77 throw power is equivalent to the arm strength of a 13 year-old girl.

Game 2:
SMACKED Indiana 29-0. I thought this was a sign of good things to come. False.

Game 3:
Lost to some shit team who I forgot. Play of the game was when the opposing team was marching before half. They were inside my 15 and threw a WR screen. The WR caught it and turned up field and hurdled one of my defenders. My MLB crushed him midair, causing the ball to fly out. My star safety caught it midair and housed it. Still lost though, fuck.

Game 4:
Got completely dominated by Miami University to the tune of 35-7.

Game 5:
Lost to Ohio by 7. I had two drops in the final 2 minutes that would have resulted in a touchdown. I then missed the onside kick and only had 2 timeouts with 47 seconds remaining. Ohio threw on first down and it was incomplete. On 2nd down they ran a dive up the gut and i engaged 8. EVERYONE got blocked and the resulting 15 yard run iced the game.

Recruiting is actually going pretty well. I have signed 4 people so far, 1 3* and 3 2*. I'll post their names and positions when we play again.

[kmanharris]

UMASS finally got another win and we are now 2-5...

I absolutely trounced BGSU 46-7. The turning point of the game was when, on a 3rd down, BGSU completed a pass but a flag was thrown. Obviously, I thought it was on me but it turned out to be an illegal touching penalty on the WR. The replay wasn't available so I don;t know if it was legit or not but me and Cowboys were both in utter shock. It was 7-5, BGSU at that point of the game. I have NEVER EVER seen an illegal touching penalty called.

UTSA is 2-4 I believe. I think he lost in triple-OT last night. Maybe his gay ass will get on here and update at some point.