Mean Green Nation: MGN Dynasty

MGN Dynasty: Bowl Win, Offseason

Adam Martinez — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:52:04 GMT

As expected, we won the bowl game. 35-23 was the final. We had tons of offense including a very Mestemaker-like run. Thanks, glitchy defense! (I’d show it to you but PSN is still processing it)

MGN Dynasty: AAC Title Game

Adam Martinez — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:29:14 GMT

Beat Army 27-10. They ran a lot and my DE was injured. Not a lot of drama here. Also

to be fair I was distracted as I was also reading about the wildfires in LA

Beat Temple 35-7. Had a big lead but the backups allowed a score. Had some “forced it interceptions”. Dominated the game. New, tweaked offense is clicking.

Just like that, we are Top 25 in the CFP…

MGN Dynasty: A Rivalry Win

Adam Martinez — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:19:07 GMT

Last we left you your favorite head coach, “MGN MeanGreenNation” was recovering from a 0-4 start to the season. A couple of tweaks later — a couple of new formations, a depth chart switch, and some adjustments to the defense (not to mention a softer schedule) and we are now winners of five straight. It was four straight heading into the UT-San Antonio g…

MGN Dynasty: A Top 25 Win

Adam Martinez — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:49:10 GMT

Week 8: 49-21 at Memphis

A pivotal battle, as I mentioned. Memphis is a good squad (85,85,86 to my 86,87,85) but I came out firing. I jumped in the practice field to hone my hitch post/corner play that I’ve been misfiring on. I only used it once during the game but I got a huge first down on it. Well, huge before the game went my way completely. A more c…

The Christmastide Update

Adam Martinez — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:06:36 GMT

MGN had a little more time to indulge in some video games. I saw Steam had Total War: Napoleon for like $5 and I could not resist. I even counted it as supplemental education for the MGN children as I could describe the differences between militia and regular soldiers. My daughter eventually started calling them “the teenagers” and displayed some rather…

MGN Dynasty: Reloading For Year 3

Adam Martinez — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:28:14 GMT

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Last we left you we were mid-season of a struggle fest. I don’t quite want to compare us to FSU ‘24 but it is something like that. We finished the opening season 10-31 and lost to the teams the real life sq…

MGN Dynasty: Year Two Mid Season Update

Adam Martinez — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:55:16 GMT

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Last we left you coach MGN MeanGreenNation won a bowl game over Ball State and went 9-4 on the year. We were ranked and started the next season ranked 22nd in the…

MGN Dynasty: Bowl Time

Adam Martinez — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:46:58 GMT

Last we left you we had Temple to play. I am happy to report fake NT went to fake Philly and put a hurting on that red squad. 42-24 was the final. I had 429 yards of offense, including 157 on the ground. There was open grass all over. We jumped out to a 24-0 lead and the route was on. I feel like some computer assistance was helping as Temple suddenly g…

MGN Dynasty: We Continue

Adam Martinez — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:38:45 GMT

After a devastating two weeks we had a merciful bye. I could reset, explore the play book and figure out what is going on. In real life, of course, I just played a couple of exhibition game to see what other plays can be some go-tos. I edited a playbook and didn’t like how it re-organizes the plays. I scrapped that idea. The recruiting effort is mediocr…

MGN Dynasty Week 7&8: Collapse

Adam Martinez — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:45:45 GMT

Well I got killed my Memphis.

Fake football coach quote:

We just weren’t ready for their physicality on the day. That is on the staff and the players and everyone. We have to be ready to play. That starts on Monday.

The final: 10-38.

The funny thing is I played much better in my little “scouting” matchup. I knew there was a patch and was curious about i…

MGN Dynasty: Week 7

Adam Martinez — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:46:41 GMT

We got our boys healed up. Morris was hurting as we put a lot of work on his legs. The plan going into this week is more of the same: rely on the run game, but know that we have a lethal pass game if we want to unleash it. We can probably score with anyone but now that we have a handle on the defense we can be a little more strategic. We were putting up…

MGN Dynasty: Week 5 & 6

Adam Martinez — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:51:18 GMT

Last we left you, fake UNT had a struggle session vs Wyoming. but we pulled it out. In real life, I had a work trip and then came down with a fever or for a couple of days over the weekend. So I was out for a week plus.

MGN Dynasty: Week 4

Adam Martinez — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:35:55 GMT

After fake UNT beat fake TTU in Lubbock, the fake MGN Podcast was all like “I’ve always said that NT could have been Tech if NT was in the same conference with Texas for 40 years. That was a gusty win and I am a fan of this new coach with the weird name”

In real life the challenge after a big upset is keeping all your players down to earth and preparing …

MGN Dynasty: Week 3

Adam Martinez — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:52:01 GMT

Last we left you fake NT was gearing up for Tech in Lubbock. Jones AT&T Stadium was loud, even if not full. Tech was 1-0 coming into this one, and I presume fake Coach Mac was there, too. Anyway, NT gets the ball first and we dink and dunk our way down the field. I can’t call audibles or anything as all the young WRs have shaky routes. They are intimida…

MGN Dynasty

Adam Martinez — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:04:20 GMT

I finally sat down and played the Dynasty mode. I, like most 30-something people, don’t have the same time I did when NCAA 14 arrived and I could play it as much as I wanted. I dipped into online play, I did a little friendly competition with some friends. Now it is time to start the mode with the squad.

At first glance, we can see that NT is pretty med…