A Coaching Carousel would do wonders.

[AuburnAlumni]

Following College Hoops 2k8, the ability to manually edit and save Coaches and their coordinators like College Hoops and have them go through an annual "coaching carousel" would be incredible in this series.

Also being able to set a specific offense for a specific coach. So you edit the "MICHIGAN COACH" to be "Rich Rodriguez" and you set his offensive style to "Shotgun Spread" with a run heavy orientation.

Then say, Rodriguez leaves and goes to Ole Miss...they would switch their offense automatically.

Or...edit Auburn's Offensive Coordinator to be "Gus Malzahn" and set his own particular style. Then he gets a job offer and leaves Auburn to go to Texas A&M and takes his offensive style with him.

Another aspect would be if you lost your OC or DC, there could be a higher potential for players to transfer, etc.

Those who play the Hoops 2k8 series know what I'm talking about. Excellent feature that almost no other sports game can match.

[jfsolo]

It would be great, but the development team would have to finally reprogram the CPU recruiting engine so that team would actually recruit to their play style instead of just basically looking at stars ratings and position needs. The Carousel feature would be greatly diminished if they leave the recruiting "broken" like it has been since forever.

[GoToledo]

This would give the game so much replay value. I am drooling just imagining the possibilities of a 2K8 style coaching carousel.

[duckfever8]

They should of had it in already. Hope they do in NCAA 11. Won't it be fun to have the Navy OC take his run heavy offense to Texas Tech? The possibilites would be endless.

[cowboy_kmoney]

Lets hope we get this news telling us its in the game this year when the info start coming out.Because this would be big for this years game.

[Amoo316]

Quote: Originally Posted by AuburnAlumni

Following College Hoops 2k8, the ability to manually edit and save Coaches and their coordinators like College Hoops and have them go through an annual "coaching carousel" would be incredible in this series. Also being able to set a specific offense for a specific coach. So you edit the "MICHIGAN COACH" to be "Rich Rodriguez" and you set his offensive style to "Shotgun Spread" with a run heavy orientation. Then say, Rodriguez leaves and goes to Ole Miss...they would switch their offense automatically. Or...edit Auburn's Offensive Coordinator to be "Gus Malzahn" and set his own particular style. Then he gets a job offer and leaves Auburn to go to Texas A&M and takes his offensive style with him. Another aspect would be if you lost your OC or DC, there could be a higher potential for players to transfer, etc. Those who play the Hoops 2k8 series know what I'm talking about. Excellent feature that almost no other sports game can match.

I LOVE the idea Aub, but I need to play devil's advocate here for a second. Let's take your example and say Gus Malzon leaves Auburn to head to Texas A&M. Auburn then hires Mike Leech to be the Offensive Coordinator (not realistic but a good extreme example). What does the offense do? Is the Offense tied to the Head Coach or the Offensive Coordinator? For schools like Florida and Auburn the answer to this question would be completely different. Not sure how to differentiate.

[prowler]

Quote: Originally Posted by Milbut

I LOVE the idea Aub, but I need to play devil's advocate here for a second. Let's take your example and say Gus Malzon leaves Auburn to head to Texas A&M. Auburn then hires Mike Leech to be the Offensive Coordinator (not realistic but a good extreme example). What does the offense do? Is the Offense tied to the Head Coach or the Offensive Coordinator? For schools like Florida and Auburn the answer to this question would be completely different. Not sure how to differentiate.

I was thinking about that as well when people first suggested the feature a while back. I think easiest option would be letting the OC decide the offense if the HC is defensive minded. The other option could be having coaches decline to work on your staff if there is a huge difference in coaching philosophies; ie Paul Johnson trying to hire Mike Leach as an OC.

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by AuburnAlumni

Following College Hoops 2k8, the ability to manually edit and save Coaches and their coordinators like College Hoops and have them go through an annual "coaching carousel" would be incredible in this series. Also being able to set a specific offense for a specific coach. So you edit the "MICHIGAN COACH" to be "Rich Rodriguez" and you set his offensive style to "Shotgun Spread" with a run heavy orientation. Then say, Rodriguez leaves and goes to Ole Miss...they would switch their offense automatically. Or...edit Auburn's Offensive Coordinator to be "Gus Malzahn" and set his own particular style. Then he gets a job offer and leaves Auburn to go to Texas A&M and takes his offensive style with him. Another aspect would be if you lost your OC or DC, there could be a higher potential for players to transfer, etc. Those who play the Hoops 2k8 series know what I'm talking about. Excellent feature that almost no other sports game can match.

^^^ This please.