NCAA Football 11 Dynasty Blog: 1 of 3 - Phone Call

[IndyBronco]

Point-spiff3000, I guess i was just thinking about in year 10 of my dynasty, if there were coaching changes or changes in philosophy's, it would make schools have to recruit differently and the CPU should be smarter at finding the correct players to fit their systems, as opposed to GT recruiting a small, slow qb

[LBFitted]

Quote: Originally Posted by splff3000

This. I'm not gonna say that this will ruin recruiting in OD's but I think it will severely change the way things are done. For instance, there were quite a few times in our OD in 10 were someone would give up recruiting someone because they thought they were too far behind. Now no one never knew how far behind they really were, but they thought they were too far and that's all that matters. That seems more lifelike to me than seeing points. I mean Florida State doesn't really know how far they are behind Miami in getting that top recruit. They can just assume which is what you had to do before this. I'm not saying it's going to ruin recruiting, I just think it makes it less realistic. Honestly, I would like to see a national signing day and if the top teams were within 100pts of each other the recruit could go to either one of those teams. Now, that would be pretty cool.

thats not true. You gotta remember they have recruiting insiders, and **** you can even watch college football live, espnu etc and find out how close and far you are in their decisions. Scouts inc, etc. They know when they are in the running and when they have no shot! I like it more that way personally

[Bootzilla]

You know what a 5 star 6'2 220 lb fullback is? A linebacker. Most teams don't even use fullbacks let alone spend much time recruiting them.

[splff3000]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBFitted

thats not true. You gotta remember they have recruiting insiders, and **** you can even watch college football live, espnu etc and find out how close and far you are in their decisions. Scouts inc, etc. They know when they are in the running and when they have no shot! I like it more that way personally

There's a difference between knowing you're in the running and knowing exactly how far behind you are. In 10, I knew if I was in the running or not. In 11, I will know exactly how far behind I am. Knowing exactly how far behind you are is not realistic IMO. I'm thinking this will be like Madden's scouting showing the potential of all the draftees BEFORE the draft............ It didn't ruin scouting and drafting, it just made it a lot easier and IMO, not as fun as if I didn't know the draftee potential.

[oldman]

If they really wanted to change the way this game is, they need to add something like the coaching carousel from College Hoops 2k8. Someone gets fired, new coach comes in, new system, and you actually see that team recruiting a different style of players. Now it is just, CPU team 1 needs x number of wr's even though they might be a running team and have a weak starting rb, it doesn't matter, the CPU follows the same pattern. The recruiting system EA is using is played out and this new addition is just more of the same.

[RynoAid]

Quote: Originally Posted by splff3000

There's a difference between knowing you're in the running and knowing exactly how far behind you are. In 10, I knew if I was in the running or not. In 11, I will know exactly how far behind I am. Knowing exactly how far behind you are is not realistic IMO. I'm thinking this will be like Madden's scouting showing the potential of all the draftees BEFORE the draft............ It didn't ruin scouting and drafting, it just made it a lot easier and IMO, not as fun as if I didn't know the draftee potential.

but you don't know

A. How many points you will get because pitches are random.

B. How many points he will get because pitches are random and you also have the possibility that he could be competetive recruiting against another competing team that is not you. This will drive down the top end of how many positive points he can get. You get more positive points with straight pitches than competetive recruiting.

C. How many people are competetive recruiting against the #1 team for that player and driving down any green points he got from his own recruiting.

So yea, there will be some players you can look at the numbers and know it will be hard to make it up and it's best to drop out... but there will be others that are somewhat competetive that you will stay in on and the numbers could go either way based on a myriad of factors.

[mcarta]

Quote: Originally Posted by RynoAid

Mike Alstott? just sayin'

Stanley Havili is an great example

[jolson88]

I think this change is great. As RynoAid points out, there is still plenty of ambiguity to spice things up (especially in OD). I also like how much more difficult it will be to get great players with a smaller/less prestigous school. I'm looking forward to trying this new recruiting system out.

I still am dying for AD mode (stadium additions, really), and coaching carousel.