Dynasty Musings: NCAA 11 -- Assistance Needed

[Dave Pearson]

Quote: Originally Posted by tbach

I didn't like the discipline aspect from the older games so I wouldn't really want it back with the budget thing. The budget idea isn't bad but I don't want discipline and I don't see why academics should be there. I'm not the dean.

Sure, you're not the dean, but in real life, if your players don't make the grades, they can't play. Almost every single coach allots study hall time every day.

[Dave Pearson]

Quote: Originally Posted by rollinphat

Ed Orgeron was head coach at Ole Miss from 2005-2007. He was never an assistant coach there.

Sorry about that, it was fixed. He's an assistant now for USC, probably why it got in there. Hell of a recruiter.

[bdozer66]

one thing they arent listed from overall, ive gotten 3 stars that are far better than 4 stars on many occasions.

So lets throw that out.

and to the guy that lets the CPU do it , the cpu sucks at recruiting.

[Beastly Wayz]

Right, I sure do miss the whole tota lcontrol on the player aspect, I liked the Discipline, and grades for the student, you guys want the game to be "Life Like", every school in the NCAA has some players that miss a game or two due to Academics or off the field issues, Look at Dez Bryant last year - Best player on the team out for the whole season. That would truly be a life like sim....

[goalie]

i think you can get lost in too much detail, though...

you have assistants, then what? high school coaches to contact? (that might be kinda cool, actually)

or local media (the middlesex county newspaper?)

or maybe even attend a HS camp or all star game, like they have all over?

i don't know, EA probably has to draw a line somewhere...

i am thinking of the Soccer Manager games where you can delegate some responsibility to assistants, and that allows the gamer to choose his level of involvement pretty nicely...

[nb27]

I would really like to see some coaching traits at least, if not assistants or anything like that. In real life, some coaches are good recruiters, some are better at developing players. Take Butch Davis at UNC and Jim Grobe at Wake Forest for example. Davis is a great recruiter and routinely brings in great talent wherever he goes. He may not be the best teacher, but his teams usually have some success because of what he does. Conversely, Jim Grobe rarely brings in highly rated recruits, but he redshirts everyone he brings in, works with the players to fit his system, and even though his recruiting classes rank near the bottom of the ACC, he wins pretty consistently. Id like to see some of this in future games.

[cloudedskate]

You've read Meat Market too? That's one of my favorite books ever and probably my favorite football book.

On a more serious note, I think that the NCAA team should add assistant coaches. Your AD would probably have to set out a budget so if you were the coach at WKU, you couldn't go out and hire an offensive coordinator with an A+ in offensive knowledge and an A+ in recruiting. I think a system like in CH 2K8 would work very well.

I would also like a player's overall rating to be affected by the scheme the team runs. If I run a 3-4 defense and I have a 6'4", 350 pound behemoth who is slow as molasses but requires 2 or 3 lineman to block him, I want his overall rating to be higher on my 3-4 team than he would be on a 4-3 team. If any of you have played NFL Head Coach 09, I'm saying something along those lines.

[Dave Pearson]

I'll just leave this here...