How Do You "Run" Your Dynasty?

[TheSteelDad]

Apologies if there's already a thread out there about this... I've been curious about how you run your offline dynasty. For example, my standard OP is to be a coordinator at a small school, typically non-power conference. I will then evaluate the opportunities to become a HC and usually will only accept jobs at mid-level schools. Then I'll eventually ascend to a Power 4 school as an HC.

I'm getting kind of bored with this approach and wondered if you guys had any other methods.

[Vadiplomat04]

One thing you can try is, be a head coach of a small school and put recruiting restrictions on yourself. So for me, I've been at JMU for 10 years now, and I have a restriction where I can not recruit more then 10 players outside of the DMV area. This makes it where you have to be good at developing talent versus just recruiting the best players.

Also another thing you can do is constant conference realignment. For my JMU dynasty, I moved JMU from the Sun Belt to the ACC. Then I created an ACC conference (with real schools and teambuilder schools) with just schools from the DMV area. The conference started off with 12 team, then expanded to 18 teams as I added in schools from WV, PA, and NC. Doing this will allow you to not become dominate and constantly have a challenge to your team as you can keep bring in good teams into your conference and kick off the bad teams. I do a conference rotation every 4 years. If a team goes below .500 during that time or constantly have bad recruiting classes, I kick them out. I added in the schools that fit my criteria over those 4 years.

One thing I would like to see for CFB 26 is the ability to create custom conferences with customer conference logos and locations for championship games. I hate having a select few stadiums to do conference championship games at. Allow me to choose any stadium in the game to do my championship game at.

[iliveaboveasubway]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheSteelDad

Apologies if there's already a thread out there about this... I've been curious about how you run your offline dynasty. For example, my standard OP is to be a coordinator at a small school, typically non-power conference. I will then evaluate the opportunities to become a HC and usually will only accept jobs at mid-level schools. Then I'll eventually ascend to a Power 4 school as an HC. I'm getting kind of bored with this approach and wondered if you guys had any other methods.

You can try only accepting new jobs after Milestones. Like a big bowl win. Winning your conference for the first time. Or if you are an OC or DC, maybe you lead the league in something and a team who was **** at what you lead in comes-a-callin'

[adembroski]

I don't anymore! Because 4 seasons in, conferences stopped scheduling conference games entirely and all the Conference Rules options are greyed out.



But for real, just throwing that out there in case someone has a fix.

I take a coordinator position with a small school and work my way up. I leave auto-recruiting on until I feel like I've earned some control there as well.

[sherrane]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheSteelDad

Apologies if there's already a thread out there about this... I've been curious about how you run your offline dynasty. For example, my standard OP is to be a coordinator at a small school, typically non-power conference. I will then evaluate the opportunities to become a HC and usually will only accept jobs at mid-level schools. Then I'll eventually ascend to a Power 4 school as an HC. I'm getting kind of bored with this approach and wondered if you guys had any other methods.

The way you play was my typical dynasty backstory in 14 and earlier. I initially tried this twice in 25 and was highly disappointed because or the lack of job offers in 25. It seemed to be redundant as I could always get Virginia and a G5 HC gig early and opportunities would dry up for a few years shortly afterward. It inspired a "get out when the getting is good" mentality. Perhaps that reflects real life, but it isn't the way I want to play.



I just ran a 20-year dynasty where I started and maintained my HC job at Kennesaw State. I also ran Relegation system where every year the conference champions move up to the next conference and the worst teams move down. I got Kennesaw to the top for several years and maxed out recruiting, which made recruiting far too early.


I am now in my 1st year as the OC of Georgia. I wanted to see how the Bundle Discount skill worked and I have upgraded my defensive recruiting and tactician skills on the cheap to help me move on to a new job. I want to stay at UGA for a couple of years and I hope the game offers me a HC at a C-USA school (lowest ranked conference) like Sam Houston, Jacksonville State, or New Mexico State (one of my favorite starting places in the older games, which was removed by default by Revamped). I'm still a few weeks away from Conference Championship Week, so I don't know how well the job offers have been fixed, if at all.


If the initial job offers dry up as they have in previous attempts, I will probably start as a HC of one of the teams mentioned in the previous paragraph. I will look to spread my skill purchases in a different direction. Recruiting at Kennesaw State got far too easy after maxing the skill. I would have the #1 class with 20 signees, all 4 and 5 start players excluding kickers while other schools trail me with 32+ signees.


So far, starting at KSU was my best dynasty experience. I will start over with a C-USA HC job if the Georgia OC career path feels like it fizzles.

[TheSteelDad]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

I don't anymore! Because 4 seasons in, conferences stopped scheduling conference games entirely and all the Conference Rules options are greyed out. But for real, just throwing that out there in case someone has a fix. I take a coordinator position with a small school and work my way up. I leave auto-recruiting on until I feel like I've earned some control there as well.

The auto-recruiting thing is something I've been curious about doing. Or at the very least really restricting where and who I recruit as was also suggested in the thread.

[TheSteelDad]

Quote: Originally Posted by sherrane

The way you play was my typical dynasty backstory in 14 and earlier. I initially tried this twice in 25 and was highly disappointed because or the lack of job offers in 25. It seemed to be redundant as I could always get Virginia and a G5 HC gig early and opportunities would dry up for a few years shortly afterward. It inspired a "get out when the getting is good" mentality. Perhaps that reflects real life, but it isn't the way I want to play. I just ran a 20-year dynasty where I started and maintained my HC job at Kennesaw State. I also ran Relegation system where every year the conference champions move up to the next conference and the worst teams move down. I got Kennesaw to the top for several years and maxed out recruiting, which made recruiting far too early. I am now in my 1st year as the OC of Georgia. I wanted to see how the Bundle Discount skill worked and I have upgraded my defensive recruiting and tactician skills on the cheap to help me move on to a new job. I want to stay at UGA for a couple of years and I hope the game offers me a HC at a C-USA school (lowest ranked conference) like Sam Houston, Jacksonville State, or New Mexico State (one of my favorite starting places in the older games, which was removed by default by Revamped). I'm still a few weeks away from Conference Championship Week, so I don't know how well the job offers have been fixed, if at all. If the initial job offers dry up as they have in previous attempts, I will probably start as a HC of one of the teams mentioned in the previous paragraph. I will look to spread my skill purchases in a different direction. Recruiting at Kennesaw State got far too easy after maxing the skill. I would have the #1 class with 20 signees, all 4 and 5 start players excluding kickers while other schools trail me with 32+ signees. So far, starting at KSU was my best dynasty experience. I will start over with a C-USA HC job if the Georgia OC career path feels like it fizzles.

It's stunning to me how quickly the offers dry up even as you become more successful. Seems like it would be just the opposite!

[TarHeelPhenom]

Honestly, I have taken the game as is this year. The only things I've done:

1) I don't manually upgrade my coaches. I auto upgrade and have it on the Slowest settings.

2) As the Head Coach, I select the recruits that I want to recruit in preseason, and then turn on Auto Recruit and let my "Assistants" recruit for the remainder of the year. I'll take recruiting back over in the offseason when the portal opens.

Outside of that, I don't hold myself to any other restrictions. I'll check out job offers and evaluate at the end of each year. I went 11-4 at ECU in the first season of my Dynasty. I got 4 HC job offers in the offseason and I left for Maryland. I'm in my second season at Maryland now and I could see myself staying a while. At the same time, should a particular job come open...

I'm out lol!