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S27 was quite an interesting season for the Baltimore Hawks. We went through a lot of ups and downs, but now the future is looking bright. It all started after the S27 ISFL draft. With the 11th overall pick, in the S27 ISFL draft, the Baltimore Hawks select... Maui Wailiki, offensive lineman for the Dallas Birddogs! Maui was the first OL off the board, and the first birddog too. Maui was in the process of transitioning from an offensive lineman to a defensive edge rusher that offseason, but Baltimore wasn't aware because they never scouted him. Now, luckily, Baltimore did have a hole at defensive line, so they could luckily play him there, but otherwise, things could have gotten messy. Fast forward a few weeks into the season. Everything's going terribly. The Hawks are winless, the locker room is near dead, and there's no sense of hope. This was Chika's peak year, and the Hawks were wasting all that talent. Some members of HO were getting a little bit nervous at the direction that the team was taking, and I can't blame them. They contacted users of the team to try and determine the culture in Baltimore. Star players were leaving each season and Baltimore had negotiated some pretty terrible contracts, putting themselves in a cap hell. The Head Office determined that the current GMs were unfit to run the team, and thus the saga started. HO brought in 2 outside candidates, Frick and Hall, who I absolutely love. There could not have been a better pair of candidates that they picked. Unfortunately, half the team disagreed, so we had to ship them out. We traded our star QB, our only active OL, an earning safety, a monster TE, and we got a LOT of picks out of it. Baltimore traded the old models for the new one. With all this new draft capital, we are heading in the right direction. We had 2 first round picks last season, 2 this season, and 3 next season. That's 7 first rounders across 3 years. 1 of them from S27, excelsior, has made a huge impact on the team, immediately contributing to the war room and locker room culture. He's been max earning and extremely enthusiastic. The other first rounder, Overdoo, was definitely a solid pickup, but I think they reached a little at 3OA. Baltimore could potentially nail this S28 draft class, with top recreates like BigRed and Infinite in the class. Baltimore may have gone winless this season, and may go winless next season, but by S30, this team will be contending for a playoff berth. The only unfortunate thing is our QB of the future is an S29 player, so we won't have a good QB until around S32.
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Maui Wailiki has always been underrated, even from his time in high school, to being recruited as a D1 athlete, to playing in college, and then getting scouted in the DSFL, and then the ISFL. All 4 levels, Maui has been snubbed in some way. He's been a great player, constantly putting in the effort and work and dedication that you need from a pro athlete like him. It's been a while since we've checked in with him, the last time being before his DSFL draft. A lot has come since then. He was selected with the first pick of the 5th round in the S26 DSFL draft. Maui Wailiki? A 5th rounder? How could this be? Well, this fall was certainly explainable. He was an OL, so he was automatically going to be disadvantaged, as OL are always a bit biased against. Teams do not recognize the full value that these players bring to their teams, but it's understandable. Maui also said he wanted nothing to do with the DSFL, so he wanted to go straight to the ISFL. Which team wanted to waste a pick on a 1 season offensive lineman? Dallas did, because Dallas cares about developing talent, not winning, yet they still won the Ultimini a season after. Maui had a pretty unproductive rookie year, only making the pro bowl out of pity. He was living up to his draft placement, and he was often outplayed by his fellow S27 OL, Cheese Farley. Maui decided to announce his switch to a DE. He knew immediately that would get some teams much more interested in him. He made a full switch to DE and had a great scouting combine. Maui was seen as one of THE top prospects in the draft going in after this switch, and many assumed he would go in the first round. Little did the public know how much praise he was receiving behind closed doors. Honolulu was genuinely thinking about taking Maui 1OA before a last second switch to take Eleven Kendrick Watts. Maui fell, and fell, and fell, all the way down to 11OA! The Hawks picked him up, a no-brainer move. Maui wondered if there really was 10 people ahead of him that deserved to get picked before he did. He knew he was going to make them regret passing on him. Maui had a terrible rookie season, but it was such a weird season with the sim change, and hopefully some new balance changes will ensure Maui a defensive breakout player of the year next season.
S27 was quite an interesting season for the Baltimore Hawks. We went through a lot of ups and downs, but now the future is looking bright. It all started after the S27 ISFL draft. With the 11th overall pick, in the S27 ISFL draft, the Baltimore Hawks select... Maui Wailiki, offensive lineman for the Dallas Birddogs! Maui was the first OL off the board, and the first birddog too. Maui was in the process of transitioning from an offensive lineman to a defensive edge rusher that offseason, but Baltimore wasn't aware because they never scouted him. Now, luckily, Baltimore did have a hole at defensive line, so they could luckily play him there, but otherwise, things could have gotten messy. Fast forward a few weeks into the season. Everything's going terribly. The Hawks are winless, the locker room is near dead, and there's no sense of hope. This was Chika's peak year, and the Hawks were wasting all that talent. Some members of HO were getting a little bit nervous at the direction that the team was taking, and I can't blame them. They contacted users of the team to try and determine the culture in Baltimore. Star players were leaving each season and Baltimore had negotiated some pretty terrible contracts, putting themselves in a cap hell. The Head Office determined that the current GMs were unfit to run the team, and thus the saga started. HO brought in 2 outside candidates, Frick and Hall, who I absolutely love. There could not have been a better pair of candidates that they picked. Unfortunately, half the team disagreed, so we had to ship them out. We traded our star QB, our only active OL, an earning safety, a monster TE, and we got a LOT of picks out of it. Baltimore traded the old models for the new one. With all this new draft capital, we are heading in the right direction. We had 2 first round picks last season, 2 this season, and 3 next season. That's 7 first rounders across 3 years. 1 of them from S27, excelsior, has made a huge impact on the team, immediately contributing to the war room and locker room culture. He's been max earning and extremely enthusiastic. The other first rounder, Overdoo, was definitely a solid pickup, but I think they reached a little at 3OA. Baltimore could potentially nail this S28 draft class, with top recreates like BigRed and Infinite in the class. Baltimore may have gone winless this season, and may go winless next season, but by S30, this team will be contending for a playoff berth. The only unfortunate thing is our QB of the future is an S29 player, so we won't have a good QB until around S32.
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Maui Wailiki has always been underrated, even from his time in high school, to being recruited as a D1 athlete, to playing in college, and then getting scouted in the DSFL, and then the ISFL. All 4 levels, Maui has been snubbed in some way. He's been a great player, constantly putting in the effort and work and dedication that you need from a pro athlete like him. It's been a while since we've checked in with him, the last time being before his DSFL draft. A lot has come since then. He was selected with the first pick of the 5th round in the S26 DSFL draft. Maui Wailiki? A 5th rounder? How could this be? Well, this fall was certainly explainable. He was an OL, so he was automatically going to be disadvantaged, as OL are always a bit biased against. Teams do not recognize the full value that these players bring to their teams, but it's understandable. Maui also said he wanted nothing to do with the DSFL, so he wanted to go straight to the ISFL. Which team wanted to waste a pick on a 1 season offensive lineman? Dallas did, because Dallas cares about developing talent, not winning, yet they still won the Ultimini a season after. Maui had a pretty unproductive rookie year, only making the pro bowl out of pity. He was living up to his draft placement, and he was often outplayed by his fellow S27 OL, Cheese Farley. Maui decided to announce his switch to a DE. He knew immediately that would get some teams much more interested in him. He made a full switch to DE and had a great scouting combine. Maui was seen as one of THE top prospects in the draft going in after this switch, and many assumed he would go in the first round. Little did the public know how much praise he was receiving behind closed doors. Honolulu was genuinely thinking about taking Maui 1OA before a last second switch to take Eleven Kendrick Watts. Maui fell, and fell, and fell, all the way down to 11OA! The Hawks picked him up, a no-brainer move. Maui wondered if there really was 10 people ahead of him that deserved to get picked before he did. He knew he was going to make them regret passing on him. Maui had a terrible rookie season, but it was such a weird season with the sim change, and hopefully some new balance changes will ensure Maui a defensive breakout player of the year next season.
