NCAA Football 11 Dynasty Blog 3 of 3 - Recruiting Logic and Extras

[foreverhorn]

"Also...classes with 10+ 5 star commits should NEVER HAPPEN...EVER!!!"

There, fixed it for ya...;-)

[xSUPERSCOTTx]

I really enjoyed all 3 blogs. I am glad recruiting was improved, it is the biggest part of dynasty. I also hope teams recruit to their systems.

I have a question though. What is this "coaching carousel" that everyone is talking about. I tried to find it in a blog, but I couldn't find it, and everyone is talking and hoping for it. Would this feature just add the ability to hire/fire coaches? Why would this be an amazing feature? Could someone please clarify this for me?

[Perfect Zero]

Quote: Originally Posted by xSUPERSCOTTx

I have a question though. What is this "coaching carousel" that everyone is talking about. I tried to find it in a blog, but I couldn't find it, and everyone is talking and hoping for it. Would this feature just add the ability to hire/fire coaches? Why would this be an amazing feature? Could someone please clarify this for me?

Because it happens in real life. Some coaches go from one team to another all the time. Brian Kelly at Notre Dame replacing Charlie Weis is one, and there are plenty more examples. It gets boring when all the coaches stay at one place on the game until the end of dynasty. People move, things change, and that's why its an exciting feature.

[jeremym480]

Quote: Originally Posted by doctorhay53

For those of you saying recruiting IS college football and that the dynasty blogs address that, I just want to say that I haven't seen anything that proves to me that the recruiting is truly improved. Just because the CPU can beat me out for recruits doesn't mean that teams with 50% of their running plays as QB Options will stop recruiting pocket passers and therefore being positively annoying to play against. We won't know if these changes REALLY help the game until we've played it for a few weeks. Until then, I'm not getting excited over 3 recruiting blogs that didn't really contain that many improvements to the system.

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Quote: Originally Posted by str8artist

Good closing to a 3 part blog. Can't wait for the demo next week.

Same here! I enjoyed the blogs like other's have said hopefully team recruit players who would actually fit their offensive scheme.

[Critical Kills]

What good does a coaching carousel do though when the real coaches aren't in the game?

[Perfect Zero]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

What good does a coaching carousel do though when the real coaches aren't in the game?

It adds some level of realism. Same could be said about "what good is a college football game without real players."

[cowboykmoney]

Well if some think the recruiting is a big thing thats fine because with that has to come coaching changes because everything has to play out in order to go togather. So Im with all that feels to make this game the best and not feel like were playing last years game, They have to add coaching changes..

[NEOPARADIGM]

Quote: Originally Posted by xSUPERSCOTTx

What is this "coaching carousel" that everyone is talking about. I tried to find it in a blog, but I couldn't find it, and everyone is talking and hoping for it. Would this feature just add the ability to hire/fire coaches? Why would this be an amazing feature? Could someone please clarify this for me?

Hypothetical: You're controlling at team from the Big Ten.

Now let's say Michigan never gets it going with RichRod and continues to struggle. After two seasons, he's out, and Urban Meyer is in.

Meanwhile, Ohio State continues to dominate the conference, but out of nowhere, Tressel heads off to coach, whoever ... let's say Texas A&M. Ohio State hires some "up and comer" from the MAC.

In another surprising move, Purdue has managed to lure Bob Stoops away from Oklahoma.

And in the real shocker, Rich Rodriguez lands of all places at Penn State to replace the now-retired Joe Paterno.

Now let's cut to five years later ...

Michigan = Florida
Penn State = West Virginia (RichRod era)
Ohio State = 6-6 type team
Texas A&M = Ohio State
Purdue = three straight conference titles, perennial top 5

Obvious just a quick off-the-top-of-my-head example, but that would be the idea, and, imo, it would be awesome.