Who am I?I am the manager of the New York Jests. I have been involved in BB since season 3. I am currently in USA II.4, which I personally regard as a very difficult Division II. I have made the playoffs every year I have been in the league but have failed to crack the finals.
I began to get involved in the USA NT when I drafted Perry Gipson. I was able to train him up as a PG and molded him into the USA U21 starting PG and later the USA NT PG. Unfortunately due to his potential he is unlikely to make any future USA NT appearances. However, his training gave me the experience to learn how to train and manage minutes properly. Since then I have trained a starting guard for Spain's U21 team, Marcos Amorrortu. I doubt he will make the NT this season due to the gaps in the larger countries but I plan on continuing his training until he does. Sadly I cannot take credit for Sammon Zuhri.
Due to Gipson's progression I became more involved in the NT. I have never had an official NT role but have taken a great interest in mentoring any new users, or really any user that wants to be mentored. I started off mentoring anyone who requested it but later the administrators began assigning me users with potential NT players. I am currently helping oversee the development of Ryan Blackwell, Mitchell Gold and Tom Krebs. I will admit I didn't take a great deal of interest in suggesting tactics for the games but that was simply because I did not have all the information I deemed necessary to contribute effectively (player ratings being the giant example).
Personal goalsTo be frank I have no immediate interest in South Africa. It was essentially a random choice (to be explained later). Really I want to gain more experience in the game, particularly in the NT arena. I am looking for a new challenge and a way to expand my knowledge. I am on BB all day at work (I sit in front of a computer and work with loose deadlines
) and generally have gotten bored with the day to day part of the game.
I would like to manage for at least 2 terms so that I can see the fruits of any of these rookies rather than just passing through but we shall see how the first term goes before committing for another. I enjoy teaching people about the game, how it works and sharing strategy. I have no real way of expanding the user base of South Africa but that is ultimately going to be the key to success. I think I will help the team the most in overseeing player development as well as user development.
Why South Africa?My criteria when searching for an opportunity was as follows: smaller user base, English speaking, no manager from the same country (didn't want to steal the opportunity), no manager from USA (I have at the minimum a casual relationship with any USA NT managers in other countries). From there two things stood out: one, South Africa has a pretty solid team relative to countries with similar sizes and two, I dabbled with running for manager a long time ago but ultimately dropped out because I realized I didn't really know what I was doing.
You can obviously compete for the Africa Cup but realistically have no chance of winning the Worlds any time soon so I don't think there is a direct conflict of interest with me and my nationality and competing in any way.
National GoalsI don't think this country is at the point where they require high level databases and programs. However I know this has been a huge reason USA has seen success in both its development and its strategy. I believe I can get the support necessary if you reach that point as a country. I do have rudimentary tracking systems I use to develop strategy for my own personal team.
I would like to work with you as well as Blackmouse to continue to develop what you have going and teach and learn at the same time.
I hope that I will also be able to entertain at the same time and try to keep NT interest going.
Last edited by Rambo at 6/28/2010 8:54:25 PM