We Are SC's Tulsa Dynasty Discussion

[We Are SC]

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University of Tulsa Football

by

We Are SC


For those of you who have already taken a peak at the vault over the last day this is old news, but for everyone else welcome to my Tulsa Golden Hurricane Dyansty. Alot has taken place in the last 24 hours over in the vault so let's get everyone up to speed.

Here's info on the dyansty setup:

1. Premise:
A continuation of my Ohio dynasty where my alter ego Andy Reynolds coached for the 2005 and 2006 seasons. He has now moved on to Tulsa replacing Steve Kragthorpe who moved on to Colorado.

2. Chronology:
The dyansty will start just after the bowl games of the 2006 season.

3. Gameplay:
Quarter Length: 8 minutes
Difficulty: All-American
Sliders: Sm27's AD Sliders
Mode: Coach Mode

4. Style:
I will be presenting this dyansty from my perspective. Their will be no storylines or fancy newspaper type reports. Just me reporting what happened in my own words and with my emotions included. I will still post the same info I did in the Ohio Dynasty.


I've also completed the 2007 Off-Season. The Golden Hurricane signed 16 recruits highlighted by a lockdown corner with amazing speed and a very talented young HB who be a real stud for years to come. To get the lowdown on the recruiting process here are link's to a detailed report of each weeks happenings...

2007 Off-Season
Budget and Targets Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5


While I was going through recruiting and working on the 2007 depth chart I realized that this team is really setup to play a ball control style of offense with good defense. So instead of carrying over my balanced attack from the Ohio dyansty, I will instead be trying out a power option attack with Tulsa. Should be interesting. Before I play the first game here's the roster and depth chart for 2007 and the 2007 schedule:
Roster and Depth Chart Schedule

Well everyone enjoy, the UCLA game will be played tommorrow night so look for my first game report on Wednesday.

[WhoUTestin]

That is one tough schedule for the first year. Tulsa is a very solid team after looking at the depth chart.

[We Are SC]

It's a little deceiving because Arkansas has only won 4 games the last two years, Miss St. has only won seven games and went 1-10 last year and UCLA is coming off a 3-8 season.

The two road games at UTEP and at Tulane to end the conference season will be a tough way to finish.

[We Are SC]

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at UCLA (0-0, 0-0)

Saturday September 1, 2007 1:00 PM
Rose Bowl - Pasadena, California
Regional TV Coverage

Bruin Scouting Report
UCLA is coming off an extremly disappointing 2006 where they went a dismal 3-8 costing Karl Dorell his job. In comes Mike Price for his second stint in the PAC-10, and he finds 26 seniors waiting for him with hopes of quickly turning around the Bruin's fortunes. UCLA looks strong on offense led by senior Chris Markey who gets his shot after sitting behind Maurice Drew and junior quaterback Ben Olson who was lost for the season in the opener last year. They have a good supporting cast with talented receivers and a good oline. On defense the Bruins look strong up the middle with an excellant DT and in the seconadary with two good senior corners in Rodney Van and Michael Norris. The weak link appears to be the ends, at MLB and at SS.

Team Rank: 59
Wins: First Game
Losses: First Game
Offensive Rank: First Game
Defensive Rank: First Game

Tulsa shutouts the Bruins and leaves Pasadena feeling rosy with a 21-0 win

What a beautiful day in Pasadena as the powder blue faithfull showed up in force to support their gutty little Bruins and see Mike Price's debut. And with nobody Tulsa coming to town it had the makings of a fun day for all. NOT! [laugh] Instead the Golden Hurricane showed up ready to play power football, running the ball right at UCLA and harrassing quarterback Drew Olson all day.

First Quarter:
UCLA won the toss and elected to receive the kickoff figuring they could score early and control the game. Tulsa came ready to play though and three Markey runs, covered well by the defense, forced a UCLA punt. Tulsa took the ball and using a nice mix of option and handoff runs, Tulsa picked up three first downs and moved into UCLA territory before a holding penalty on third down ended the drive. Sticking to the strategy of playing field position, Coach Reynolds decided to punt from the UCLA 38, the punt was fair caught by UCLA at the 12. UCLA continued to try and establish a run game but the Tulsa front seven held tough and an incompletion by Olson left UCLA with another three and out. Tusla took over with good field position at their own 46 and continued to find success moving the ball on the ground with tough runs from tailback Cauvey Jackson and fullback Jared Mueller, moved the ball into UCLA territory again but found themselves with a 3rd and 7 at the 35. Joe Ganz dropped back and threw a nice pass to wide receiver Roderick Foster to convert the first down and give the Golden Hurricane a 1st and goal at the five as the quarter came to a close. Tulsa 0, UCLA 0

Second Quarter: It took only one play for Tulsa to convert as Jackson ran off left tackle and used his quickness to turn the corner and give Tulsa a 7-0 lead.

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Jackson uses his speed to turn the corner and score his first TD of the year

UCLA went three and out for the third straight time, highlighted by the first of three sacks by right end Alex Detwiler. Tulsa continued to grind the football moving once again into UCLA territory and finished the drive with an 11 yard TD pass from Ganz to halfback Tarrion Adams for a 14-0 lead. The drive lasted 14 plays and took a lot of time of the clock.

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Adams finds a gap in the defense and Ganz fires a bullet to take a 14 point lead

UCLA finaly picked up a few first downs as Olson hit a some nice passes and Markey found some day light for some good gains. With a first down inside Tulsa's twenty Olson tried to find a receiver in the endzone but cornerback Anthony Germany tipped the ball up and linebacker Trey Turner picked it off to deny the Bruins. With a little over two minutes to go Tulsa tried to run out the half but UCLA forced a three and out and got the ball with a little over a minute to play. A couple of completions moved the ball to the Tulsa 35 and with six seconds to go, Olson loft a pass towards the endzone which was caught by UCLA's Marcus Everret at the six, who then sidestepped his defender and appeared headed for the endzone until strong saftey Burnell Smith seemingly came out of nowhere to tackle Everrett at the two and end the half. Tulsa 14, UCLA 0

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Smith makes a big stop to keep UCLA from scoring at the end of the first half

Third Quarter:

Both teams made one first down on their initial possesions of the first half before having to punt. On Tulsa's second possesion they moved the ball well getting into Bruin territory again but Joe Ganz under threw tight end Ted Curtis at the five and it was intercepted by UCLA's Michael Norris.

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Ganz under throws and Norris makes Tulsa pay with a key pick

With the Bruins starting from their own five Olson attempted to pass on first down but was leveled by Detweiler just inches from a saftey. Two runs later the Bruins punted from the own endzone and Tulsa had great field posistion at the UCLA 48. The quarter ended on a beautiful 39 yard option keeper by Ganz where he slipped between the blocks of the left tackle and guard and raced down the sideline before being pushed out at the seven. Tulsa 14, UCLA 0

Much like the second quarter started, two plays in Jackson took a handoff and raced to his left finding the corner for his second touchdown and a three touchdown lead for Tulsa.

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If it works, go back to it. Jackson finds the corner again for his second TD

At this point is was time to just play some defense and milk the clock which Tulsa was able to do and UCLA did not mount any real threats for the remainder of the game.

Final Score: Tulsa 21, UCLA 0

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Coach Reynolds asks Mike Price for the address of the nearest strip club

We Are SC's Game Notes

Oh it is so sweet to beat UCLA even if it's just a video game.:D

A shutout, that maybe the only time I ever see that.

The CPU seemed determined to run the football even when it wasn't having much luck doing so. My coach tendencies are set to 35% run / 65% pass so I'll keep an eye on it and adjust it as neccassary.

I'm really trying to play field posistion football, so it was nice to see my punter have three of his five punts downed inside the twenty. He also gave up zero punt return yards.

My defense racked up an amazing thirteen tackles for loss!

No injuries and no turnovers, can't ask for more than that.

Next Week: at Arkansas

Player of the Game: Alex Detwiler 5 tackles, 4 for loss and 3 sacks

Games Stats

Tulsa UCLA

Score 21 0
First Downs 13 8
Total Offense 273 156
Rushes-Yards 45-176 31-77
Comp-Att-TD 6-10-1 8-11-0
Passing Yards 97 79
Sacked 3 5
3rd Down Conv 7-14 2-10
4th Down Conv 0-0 0-1
2-Point Conv 0-0 0-0
Redzone-TD-FG 4-3-0 1-0-0
Turnovers 1 1
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0
Intercepted 1 1
PR Yards 20 0
KR Yards 20 79
Total Yards 313 235
Punts-Average 5-33.8 7-40.1
Penalties-Yards 2-15 1-5
T.O.P. 17:53 14:07

Box Score and Scoring Summary

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final
Tulsa Golden Hurricane 0 14 0 7 21
UCLA Bruins 0 0 0 0 0

Scoring Summary
Tulsa 5 yard Run from Jackson (XP Good) - 7:58 2
Tulsa 11 yard Pass from Ganz to Adams (XP Good) - 4:03 2
Tulsa 5 yard Run from Jackson (XP Good) - 7:20 4


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2007 Schedule
2007 Roster and Depth Chart

Week 2 C-USA Scores

It was a rough start for the C-USA members going just 3-9, although all of the losses were to BCS conference teams.

Alabama 31 UTEP 35 BC 34
Tulane 21 ULM 31 So Miss 27 OT

Rutgers 14 Marshall 26 UAB 21
Rice 9 Miami 27 Vandy 35

Memphis 24 Houston 7 UCF 6
Maryland 42 Oregon 37 Florida 42

Cinci 14 SMU 24
ECU 21 Texas Tech 41

[WhoUTestin]

So you hit us with a new stat presentation? I like it. I mostly like to see overall game stats and this way I don't have to travel to the vault.

[We Are SC]

So you hit us with a new stat presentation? I like it. I mostly like to see overall game stats and this way I don't have to travel to the vault.
Thanks, glad you like it.

[FieldingBLUE]

Thanks, glad you like it.Very cool idea, We. Damn, I seem like I'm stealing from you all the time. :)

Nice win. That was a little unexpected. A shutout, no less. :D

[WhoUTestin]

Thanks, glad you like it.

I just had to "borrow" the idea. Hope you don't mind.;)

[We Are SC]

I just had to "borrow" the idea. Hope you don't mind.;)
Very cool idea, We. Damn, I seem like I'm stealing from you all the time. :)

Nice win. That was a little unexpected. A shutout, no less. :D

No problem guys, I'm happy to share it validates the work put in. All I ask is you keep reading :)

[We Are SC]

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at Arkansas (0-1, 0-0)

Saturday September 8, 2007 8:00 PM
DW Reynolds Razorback Stadium - Fayetteville, Arkansas
Regional TV Coverage

Razorback Scouting Report
Arkansas is coming off two consecutive 2-8 seasons which has cost head coaches Houston Nutt and Daryll Dickey their jobs. On their third coach in three years, a 1-AA coach from Alabama A&M, recruiting has certainly been weak leaving holes on the defensive side in particular. The offense is led by senior quaterback Robert Johnson who is a multi threat possessing a strong arm and blazing speed. Sophmorer halfback Darren McFadden is a speedster who can be trouble if he gets outside and senior WR Marcus Monk is one of the best in the SEC. The defense is strongest at the coner posistion but looks week in the front seven with the exception of senior MLB Weston Dacus. It looks like this team can be run on.

Team Rank: 90
Wins: None
Losses: at Arkansas State
Offensive Rank: 53 (377)
Defensive Rank: 83 (395)

Hogs Shutdown Hurricanne in the
Red Zone and Hold on for Victory

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Jackson's 311 yards rushing wasn't enough to beat the Razorbacks

For second week in a row the Hurricane had to venture into hostile territory against a BCS opponent ranked below them. However this week the opponent had more teeth and used the vetran leadership of quaterback Robert Johnson and wide receiver Marcus Monk to take an early lead and hold on for victory. The Hurricane moved the ball well behind the running of senior halfback Cauvey Jackson, who rushed for 311 yards, but struggled in the red zone settling for 4 field goals and a touchdown in 6 attempts. The Razorbacks had no such problem, converting both of their trips for touchdowns and adding a 53 yard bomb to Monk and a 26 yard pass from Johnson to tight end Marc Winston. Eventhough the Hurricane trailed the entire game they kept fighting, moving the ball extremly well between the twenties thanks to a big night from Jackson who broke of several long runs and finished with a average of over 8 yards per carry. Tulsa was down 20 to 12 going into the fourth quarter and moved the ball to the Razorback 12 early on, but quarterback Joe Ganz tried to force a pass in the endzone on fourth down and was intercepted by strong saftey Kevin Thorton. The Razorbacks proceeded to drive the legth of the field and put the game away with a end around run by Monk to give them a 27-12 lead. The Hurricane finaly found the endzone with 2:31 to go on a 3 yard Jackson run but the onside kick was recovered by Arkansas who ran out the clock.

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Johnson's arm, not his legs, did in the Hurricane tonight and this 4th quarter interception was a crucial error.


We Are SC's Game Notes

My playcalling was suspect in this game, I tried to use Jackson way to much and the CPU kept me guessing all night as they found success both running and throwing the ball. I will have to be more balanced going forward, playaction was not used enough.

I'm not having much luck runnin gout of the flexbone, I think a tweak of my playbook is in order to give me more options throwing the ball. I will replace Flexbone Twins and Slot with Ace Big TE WR and I Form Twin TE.

After two weeks on the road I get to come home for three in a row against confrence opponnents.

Next Week: vs UAB

Games Stats

Tulsa Arkansas

Score 20 27
First Downs 21 15
Total Offense 410 418
Rushes-Yards 49-326 27-155
Comp-Att-TD 7-15-0 13-25-2
Passing Yards 84 263
Sacked 0 0
3rd Down Conv 2-12 6-12
4th Down Conv 1-2 0-1
2-Point Conv 1-1 0-0
Redzone-TD-FG 6-1-4 2-2-0
Turnovers 1 2
Fumbles-Lost 1-0 4-1
Intercepted 1 1
PR Yards 25 6
KR Yards 104 85
Total Yards 539 509
Punts-Average 4-32 3-31.3
Penalties-Yards 1-10 4-20
T.O.P. 18:17 13:43

Box Score and Scoring Summary

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final
Tulsa Golden Hurricane 3 6 3 8 20
Arkansas Razorbacks 13 7 0 7 27

Scoring Summary
Ark 53 yard Pass from Johnson to Monk (XP Good) - 6:03 1
Ark 7 yard Run from McFadden (XP Fail) - 3:50 1
Tulsa 27 yard FG from Tate - 2:40 1
Tulsa 28 yard FG from Tate - 7:19 2
Ark 26 yard Pass from Johnson to Winston (XP Good) - 5:50 2
Tulsa 23 yard FG from Tate - 0:02 2
Tulsa 38 yard FG from Tate - 4:42 3
Ark 3 yard Run from Monk (XP Good) - 7:27 4
Tulsa 3 yard Run from Jackson (2pt Good) - 2:31 4


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2007 Schedule
2007 Roster and Depth Chart

Week 3 C-USA Scores

Another tough week, the conference looks weak against the rest of the country


UCF 27 N. Ill 11 UAB 20
Pitt 33 Memphis 28 Ohio 37

SMU 33 N Mex 31 Houston 24
Baylor 21 UTEP 7 N Mex St 31

Tex Tech 28 NC St 38
Rice 23 Tulane 0

[We Are SC]

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vs Alabama-Birmingham (0-2, 0-0)

Saturday September 15, 2007 6:00 PM
Skelly Stadium - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Regional TV Coverage

Blazers Scouting Report
UAB comes in 0-2 and are struggling offensivly ranking next to last in total offense and averaging just 20.5 points per game.
Freshman QB Cody Davis has completed just 46% percent of his passes for 262 yards, 2 TDs and 3 ints. HB Maurice Whitmore has rushed for a 4.2 yard average but has only found the endzone one time so far. The WRs are young and inexperianced and both tackles are true freshman. The defense is led by senior OLBs Joe Henderson and Marcus Mark, but the rest of the defense is average at best.

Team Rank: 112
Wins: None
Losses: at Vanderbilt and at Ohio
Offensive Rank: 118 (204)
Defensive Rank: 63 (370)

Injuries: None

Suspensions: UAB - C - Paul Moore

Weather: Rain and 70 degrees

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David Johnson hurdles over a tackler on his way to a TD and turnovers like this interception by Fuqua did in the Hurricane

Mental Errors and Turnovers
are Costly in Home Opener

Three tunovers and a costly special teams breakdown led to a 38-28 loss to UAB on a wet Saturday night in Skully Stadium. The Hurricane defense played well enough to win, holding the Blazers to just 289 total yards and giving up only 17 points, but the offense allowed two defensive touchdowns and a 77 yard punt return by halfback Maurice Whitmore. The Blazers recorded the first four scores of the game, the first on a 28 yard FG by Joseph Allen to take an early 3-0 lead. A series later an ill-advisded option pitch by quaterback Joe Ganz was scooped up by OLB Joe Henderson and returned 40 yards to give UAB a 10-0 lead. The Blazers extended their lead to 17-0 early in the second quarter on a 32 yard pass from Cody Davis to fellow freshman Luke Smith. And finaly on Tulsa's ensuing possesion Ganz tried to find halfback Cauvey Jackson over the middle on third and 8 but CB Durrell Fuqua stepped in front of the pass and returned in 30 yards to put the Blazers up by 24. The Hurricane finaly got on the board with 3:09 to go in the half on a six yard TD run by Tarrion Adams. Both teams exchanged three and outs, but on Tulsa's punt to UAB, CB Chris Felder muffed the punt and the Hurricane recovered at the eighteen with 40 seconds to go. Two plays later Adams scored his second TD, from 15 yards out, and the lead was cut to 24-14 at the half.

The two defenses both tightened in the third quarter but Tulsa received a gift midway through when Felder muffed his second punt of the night and the Hurricane had the ball at the UAB 28. Four plays later backup QB David Johnson, filling in for an injured Ganz, scored on a seven yard scramble and the lead was only three. UAB incresed it's lead a few minutes later when halfback Maurice Whitmore found a seem in the punt coverage and scampered 77 yards for the score and the Blazers were back up by ten 31-21. The score remained that way, with neither offense moving the ball much, until with 2:18 to go Davis connected with TE Jordan Erwin on a 26 yard pass and the game was out of reach. The Hurricane did add an 80 yard TD pass from Johnson to WR Rolland Garrett but were unable to recover an onside kick and the Blazers ran out the clock.

We Are SC's Game Notes

Quaterback Joe Ganz suffered a bruised elbow early in the third quarter, the injury was for the remainder of the game only.

LE Cody Madison recorded four sacks, a school record.

UAB's linebackers were all over the field making plays, it made it difficult to move the football.

I currently have the 9th rated defense in the country allowing just 287 yards per game.

I'm seriously considering scrapping the option and going for a more conventional offense.

Next Week: vs Houston

Games Stats

UAB Tulsa

Score 38 28
First Downs 13 18
Total Offense 289 350
Rushes-Yards 35-85 53-187
Comp-Att-TD 11-18-2 10-25-1
Passing Yards 204 163
Sacked 5 5
3rd Down Conv 4-12 4-16
4th Down Conv 0-0 1-4
2-Point Conv 0-0 0-0
Redzone-TD-FG 2-0-1 3-3-0
Turnovers 2 3
Fumbles-Lost 3-2 3-2
Intercepted 0 1
PR Yards 103 30
KR Yards 95 112
Total Yards 487 192
Punts-Average 6-42.8 7-39.4
Penalties-Yards 1-15 3-35
T.O.P. 17:40 22:20


Box Score and Scoring Summary

1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final
UAB Blazers 10 14 7 7 38
Tulsa Golden Hurricane 0 14 7 7 28


Scoring Summary
UAB 28 yard FG from Allen - 4:04 1
UAB 40 yard Fumble Return from Henderson (XP Good) - 2:49 1
UAB 32 yard Pass from Davis to Smith (XP Good) - 7:00 2
UAB 30 yard INT Return from Fuqua (XP Good) - 6:27 2
Tulsa 6 yard Run from Adams (XP Good) - 3:09 2
Tulsa 15 yard Run from Adams (XP Good) - 0:28 2
Tulsa 7 yard Run from Johnson (XP Good) - 4:30 3
UAB 77 yard Punt Return from Whitmore (XP Good) - 1:02 3
UAB 26 yard Pass from Davis to Erwin (XP Good) - 2:18 4
Tulsa 80 yard Pass from Johnson to Garrett (XP Good) - 1:28 4


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2007 Schedule
2007 Roster and Depth Chart

Week 4 C-USA Scores

Nice road wins for Houston and Memphis.


ECU 14 Rice 16 Memphis 34
Arkansas 28 So Miss 21 MTSU 28 OT

Tulane 12 Marshall 12 Houston 49
SMU 17 UCF 20 UTEP 28

[We Are SC]

Is anyone out there?

I guess I'm wondering if I should continue this dyansty as there hasn't been much intrest so far?

[WhoUTestin]

I have been reading and waiting for another update. I guess everyone has been a bit caught up in their own stuff. Which kinda reminds me it's time for me to do some updating of my own.