NCAA Football 12 News Post

First NCAA Football 12 Dynasty Mode Details Revealed

01:00 PM - May 19, 2011 by metallidevils

IGN posted a story today detailing some of the additions to Dynasty mode in NCAA Football 12.

The biggest change seems to be the ability to create a coach and move up the coaching ranks. Many folks have been begging for a "coaching carousel" in this series, so this addition seems like it should make a lot of people happy.

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	...EA and Tiburon have responded and given players the ability to create their own coaches from scratch. You can modify looks, set ages and even pick an alma mater. Save these changes, and you can share them with the world and every mode in your game. That stuff might sound cosmetic, but it plays into the cool changes in Dynasty mode. When you start, you can choose to go be the head coach of whatever school you like, but the real challenge is taking on one of the new offensive or defensive coordinator slots and working your way up to running an entire team. Yes, this year you can be one of the assistant coaches and manage just one side of the ball for entire games. Do well, and the shot at a head coaching job might pop up.

The story also mentions some details about Online Dynasty mode, including confirmation that you will be able to simulate online dynasty games from your computer.

If you're a more visual person, IGN has also posted a video preview detailing these changes.

On a level beyond the additions themselves, the biggest change this year just seems to be the ability to customize the experience to your liking. The folks at EA Tiburon have been relatively rigid when it comes to customizing players, leagues and so forth, but the shackles seem to be coming off in both football games now.

More details should be released about this mode and the Road to Glory mode in the near future. The embargo for all media as it relates to these modes lifts on May 23.

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# 121 wkukicksbutt @ 05/19/11 02:48 PM

I was unsure about getting this game, but after this, I am pre-ordering as soon as possible. Unbelievable improvements, the Customization for the Dynasty really shocks me, Great job EA.

# 122 justblaze09 @ 05/19/11 02:50 PM

EA proved me wrong.

I am a happy camper.

# 123 hkwforAUTigers @ 05/19/11 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by canes21


	Once you play College Hoops 2k8 you will see how big of an impact coach ratings have. A coach can make or break a program in real life and in 2k8. It may hurt recruiting in NCAA 12 which could bring a program down, but thats where it stops. There are some coaches in my 2k8 legacy that can get good players, but their schemes are so terrible they leave the team off worse, then there are coaches that have their teams play a lot better than they are. The past few seasons in my legacy The Citadel has played me really tough because of their new coach. Now he has also recruited well and they have the 2nd best team in the conference and I am a little afraid at seeing how that works out. He already has shown he can get teams to play a lot better than they are, so that team he has now should easily challenge me for the conference title.

This is the only possibilty that worries me. I want to make sure that it actually has an effect....
From what I've seen - I'm thrilled. good job EA

# 124 arobbi3 @ 05/19/11 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by canes21


	Once you play College Hoops 2k8 you will see how big of an impact coach ratings have. A coach can make or break a program in real life and in 2k8. It may hurt recruiting in NCAA 12 which could bring a program down, but thats where it stops. There are some coaches in my 2k8 legacy that can get good players, but their schemes are so terrible they leave the team off worse, then there are coaches that have their teams play a lot better than they are. The past few seasons in my legacy The Citadel has played me really tough because of their new coach. Now he has also recruited well and they have the 2nd best team in the conference and I am a little afraid at seeing how that works out. He already has shown he can get teams to play a lot better than they are, so that team he has now should easily challenge me for the conference title.

I've never even played a basketball game on the 360, but I have heard about 2k8 coaching carousel and that's what made me so hopeful for NCAA to bring it to the table. Man, hopefully they can get it to that point and this year's system doesn't disappoint. I agree the ratings may not go into that much detail, but you have to agree it's much easier for a coach to make an impact in basketball than football.

I guess we'll have to wait until the 23rd before we hear what exactly these ratings mean huh?

# 125 Hooe @ 05/19/11 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Roggie


	Exactly. No offense/defense ratings, so a Rich Rod style guy will have a high prestige but not be a detriment to the defense. As I said a month ago, I'm fine with this, but I'm SHOCKED there's no outrage over this, since everyone basically told me off when I said it would be like this.

Wouldn't separate coach prestige ratings (for offense and defense) possibly affect recruiting of offensive and defensive players? That's my thought anyway.

The obvious affect of coaching changes is recruiting pull and system changes. I'm interested to see if it goes beyond that, though.

# 126 DorianDonP @ 05/19/11 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by canes21


	Once you play College Hoops 2k8 you will see how big of an impact coach ratings have. A coach can make or break a program in real life and in 2k8. It may hurt recruiting in NCAA 12 which could bring a program down, but thats where it stops. There are some coaches in my 2k8 legacy that can get good players, but their schemes are so terrible they leave the team off worse, then there are coaches that have their teams play a lot better than they are. The past few seasons in my legacy The Citadel has played me really tough because of their new coach. Now he has also recruited well and they have the 2nd best team in the conference and I am a little afraid at seeing how that works out. He already has shown he can get teams to play a lot better than they are, so that team he has now should easily challenge me for the conference title.

I see what you are saying, but even if ratings for specific coach attributes are not in, it's still a huge step up above what we've had, and at the very least shows EA is listening. I think when the blog is released, we'll see that CPU recruiting has been improved because coaching styles will matter now. I just can't see them introducing custom playbooks, various coaching styles, and coaching carousel, but not tying them together. I believe that is what this next blog will be introducing. So at the very least, option teams will recruit scramling QBs and so on.

# 127 volstopfan14 @ 05/19/11 02:52 PM

This is AMAZING! Coaching carousel is exactly what I wanted and the conference changes and custom playbooks are great too! Thank you EA!

# 128 Roggie @ 05/19/11 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by arobbi3


	The rankings will keep the upper echelon teams from hiring coaches with a C, D, F prestige. The rating may not directly affect the team, but it should keep the hirings as realistic as possible for each position on each team. If you think about it, the players rankings are what contributes to the team's success. The best rating could do for coaches would be recruiting, maybe with a higher rating better play calls when the comp sims games? I think the rating of the coaches is being looked into too deeply.

You've never played College Hoops. The game revolves around the coaches, and a coach's rating can just make or break a program. You get a coach who can recruit but can't develop players? You have real life Miami, where all the talent in the world can't help you win. You can get a coach who can get the most out of his players, and you have a TCU, who takes those 3 stars and turns them into good players. Then you just have the coaches who can do it all, and they take programs to the top. I've seen UNC plummet after Roy Williams retires, and the same with Duke. I've also seen Minnesota turn into a national power because the hire 3 straight coaches who fit perfectly.

Again, I'm happy with moving playbooks. But it's not a true coaching carousel until you see ratings, with coaches actually affecting the player development.

# 129 Ziza9Noles94 @ 05/19/11 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by metallidevils


	Front page of ign. Sorry on my iPhone, can a mod post a link? Edit: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/116/1169273p1.html

OH MY SWEET JESUS!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for yelling. Midnight buy. Now off to clean my jeans. Happy dance, happy dance!!!!!!!!!!! Full disclosure: I just closed the door to my office and jumped up and down several times. hahaha

# 130 luvlyzero @ 05/19/11 02:59 PM

We are all going to be in football video game heaven in a few very long months!!!
I'm shocked at how impressive all of the improvements are to the career modes this year! I have been hoping for coaching carousel for so long! And it's looking like they implemented it better than I thought they would.

The guy talking in the video for IGN must be the Mizzou fan from the video from last week.
I didn't much care for his "Kansas Lamehawks" comment.

# 131 sparkdawg777 @ 05/19/11 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Roggie


	You've never played College Hoops. The game revolves around the coaches, and a coach's rating can just make or break a program. You get a coach who can recruit but can't develop players? You have real life Miami, where all the talent in the world can't help you win. You can get a coach who can get the most out of his players, and you have a TCU, who takes those 3 stars and turns them into good players. Then you just have the coaches who can do it all, and they take programs to the top. I've seen UNC plummet after Roy Williams retires, and the same with Duke. I've also seen Minnesota turn into a national power because the hire 3 straight coaches who fit perfectly. Again, I'm happy with moving playbooks. But it's not a true coaching carousel until you see ratings, with coaches actually affecting the player development.

Yeh the biggest thing about CH2k8 was that the ratings weren't useless either. They all tied in to making an impact on the team. One big rating was charisma which was big because team chemistry made an impact on the court. So the ratings made a large impact, and they should make an impact in football too.

I'm anxious to see what the other 2 Offense/Defense tabs in the coach editor have.

# 132 bucknut7 @ 05/19/11 03:01 PM

waiting for confirmation that this is all in online dynasty

# 133 LionsFanNJ @ 05/19/11 03:03 PM

....I think my brain is about to explode. Amazing info

sent from parts unknown

# 134 UMhester04 @ 05/19/11 03:04 PM

It says it in the link that it is

Edit: this was to bucknut7

# 135 PaperBoyx703 @ 05/19/11 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Roggie


	You've never played College Hoops. The game revolves around the coaches, and a coach's rating can just make or break a program. You get a coach who can recruit but can't develop players? You have real life Miami, where all the talent in the world can't help you win. You can get a coach who can get the most out of his players, and you have a TCU, who takes those 3 stars and turns them into good players. Then you just have the coaches who can do it all, and they take programs to the top. I've seen UNC plummet after Roy Williams retires, and the same with Duke. I've also seen Minnesota turn into a national power because the hire 3 straight coaches who fit perfectly. Again, I'm happy with moving playbooks. But it's not a true coaching carousel until you see ratings, with coaches actually affecting the player development.

This is just the preview none of us know exactly all the in depth info of what these features actually mean and will mean. That video is just a preview of what to expect on the 23rd of May. We were only shown a glimpse of grades we dont know what they truly mean change and what they affect in the game fully.

Its almost no matter what anyone does or says you get a group of ppl that find a way to build a negative aspect on the matter. Can we all just wait until the 23rd before we start jumping to conclusions on how its being implemented wrongly or not to its full and how it should be until after we get the Devs info?

I sware...we always have people ready to start a riot.

Edit* this isnt directed at anyone in specific including Roggie.

# 136 Hova57 @ 05/19/11 03:08 PM

I'm trying really hard not to start wigging out, but between NCAA and Madden I don't know how I'll be playing anything else other than these two games. I still got more info to get on Dynasty and Teambuilder. Not to mention you got Arkham City coming out this year too.

# 137 N51_rob @ 05/19/11 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bucknut7


	waiting for confirmation that this is all in online dynasty

He says as much in the article. On ny phone so I can't quote it for you.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

# 138 Soonerd2 @ 05/19/11 03:12 PM

Assuming we start as coordinators in an online dynasty, could 2 users actually be the OC and DC at the same school in Online Dynasty you think?

# 139 dan_457 @ 05/19/11 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Soonerd2


	Assuming we start as coordinators in an online dynasty, could 2 users actually be the OC and DC at the same school in Online Dynasty you think?

For some reason I doubt it. It's probably limited to one player per school, still though, that would be pretty damn awesome.

# 140 Dame @ 05/19/11 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Soonerd2


	Assuming we start as coordinators in an online dynasty, could 2 users actually be the OC and DC at the same school in Online Dynasty you think?

good idea but i doubt it

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