Did I see that right? Did Lou high-step out of bounds at around the 1 yard-line?

The Hoosiers are 4-0? Bug. ;)

So, I bought the game a while ago, but haven't really played it, with Power Pros taking up most of my time. College football starting, though, has me interested in picking this up. Are the best sliders to use on Xbox360 with the patch the ones EF recently posted? What roster update is the best to use?

fairdale kings' rosters and EF27's sliders are the best there is right now.

My sliders are heavily based off Auburn Alumni's from OS.

I just threw my lighter in rage. #3 Arkansas going against #5 Florida in Fayetteville and the dumbass QB who for some reason got the start over Ryan Mallett in my junior year, threw 5 interceptions. Final: 28-10 Gators and there go our national title hopes probably.

Yeah, I had a horrific game to start my 2nd season last night. Sanchez just kept throwing pick after pick against the #7 ranked Tennessee team (that had the same overall ratings my USC team did) that I thought would be very winnable. We lost 52-21 as a result. There went my title hopes probably as most of our defense graduated in the past year and we are likely to lose 1 more game at some point. The sliders are playing very well for me with good challenging games when they should be and have really reinvigorated my interest in the game.

A few questions:

1) Did the patch fix the problem about players bolting to the NFL early, regardless of how much you try to talk to them (and wasting your points/time)?

2) Any tips on reading coverage? Man to man, zone, or cover 2? Where the safeties will go?

3) Do the safety shifts/man alignment work? What exactly do they do?

4) When you show a blitz, does it also disguise blitzes as well? If I decide to hot route a player from a blitz to a coverage route, will he still fake a blitz?

1) That problem only existed in online dynasties. I believe it is still an issue in online dynasties (however the commish can convince them properly as they could before the patch. Of course, this is unfair and any commish of any league should not do so.) Edit to add: However, you don't actually lose your minutes if you try, even though it says you do. When you advance to week 1, you have your full 10 hours.

2. Send a man in motion. It can be a helpful tip to determine if they are in man or zone. Or just watch how tightly the man is played after you snap it.

3. They definitely work. The man alignment shifts guy around to get closer for man coverage and can help disguise some coverage when playing zone.

4. Yes, show blitz is a very useful button.

Now, if a corner back is either up tight with the receiver, drop back off the line, or in a normal coverage; it doesn't mean that he is in a zone or man coverage, correct?

Do you think that "confusion" works with the offensive line and quarterback with blitzes (zone or hot routing players to drop back or blitz)?

West Virginians have excellent stamina.

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/64297

Am I the only one where when I play a dynasty game of NCAA I have to be completely dad duty free?

I cannot be interrupted by anything once I settle in to play a game. I'm #3 in the nation and 6-0 right now and play #9 Texas next.. who's only loss was to #1 Oklahoma.

I just started this game earlier when all hell broke loss with kids wanting this and that, dogs wanting to go outside, wife bugging me about dinner.. she got home early for work.. and I had to say.. F it.. I'll play it later this week. :)

So...how much were you down by?

I was down 13-10 had the ball actually, start of 2nd quarter.

I'm not a cheater.. heck, I'd just sim the game over and over if that was the case. ;) I don't mind losing one bit.. but I can't stand getting into a game and then having it sit on pause for an hour and a half while I have to tend to things.

In fact, the game has been freezing a lot lately and I've noticed it happens usually when I come back from a long pause.

Edit: OU scares the shit out of me btw... and if they beat me, I'll take it like a man. :)

After resetting the game 12 times, I finally beat Texas!

j/k I lost 31-21 and threw 5 INT's ... horrible game!!! Our BCS title game hopes just might be over... :(

This is why I play legend in NCAA and superstar in Madden. With the lack of ingame saves, I'm lucky to get 30 minutes free, and these are the only modes where I can make meaningful progress in that timeframe.

When they bring back in-game saves, I'll start caring about franchise / dynasty mode again.

This is yet another reason why I miss ESPN NFL 2k5...

I can't understand why in game saves are not standard in today's sport games. Baffles the shit out of me...

Colorado better get ready!!!

More from my season:

#10 Missouri (11-1) vs #1 Oklahoma (12-0) in the Big 12 Championship

Must get a good nights sleep tonight...

Weird.. but I'm a little nervous!


Tulsa is #3 at (12-0) :eek:

This seems to become a bigger and bigger problem as time goes on. The last couple years in my single player NC State dynasty every single BCS At Large team has been an undefeated mid-major. I believe in one season there were FIVE Mid Majors that were undefeated, with only 4 at large spots, so one of them got screwed.

My new strategy to try to help alleviate this problem is going to involve me scheduling all the undefeated midmajors from the previous year to try to knock them out of the BCS myself :P

HAHA.. I'm already going to try to schedule Tulsa next year!

OU kicked my ass by the tune of 44-3.. wow...

This game is my favorite console sports game of all time, I'm REALLY loving it.

Now we play in the Cotton Bowl against Auburn who is 9-3 on the year. Can Chase Daniels go out on a winning note? I hope so...

We beat Auburn in the Cotton Bowl, 44-17 and Chase goes out on a winning note!

I spent as much time as I could convincing Maclin to stay and he told me he wanted to get a degree! YESSSS!!!!!

We'll see what we can do next year with Gabbert at the helm.

I really love this game!

Well.. Gabbert couldn't get us going, but RS Junior Dominic Grooms came in and passed for 3 TD's and our defense seems improved as we beat Illinios 34-0 to start the season!

What sliders are people using? Thought about trying to get back into this today.

EBFL Sliders - Front Office Football Central

That's what I'm using in my solo dynasty and what I believe all three of our online leagues are using (see post #4 and post #6 in that thread)

Thanks. :) I'll try those out in my solo Arkansas dynasty tonight.

I'm on AA defaults with running sliders turned up for the CPU.

Barely squeaked past Ole Miss 27-19.

I'm telling you.. this is such a great game. It has me thinking gameplans while I'm at work. ;)

I think this might be the longest I have ever played an NCAA game and I'm still excited to play it. In fact, in my 5th year at Air Force, 7th overall after two miserable years at Duke, I landed my first 5-star recruit, the #2 QB, #3 overall prospect, which guarantees at least 3 more seasons of playing. I've been running an option type offense, but am losing my best HB after this season and have recruited some good WR, so him coming in as a pocket passer shouldn't be a problem. Also, before this season, the Big XII invited me into the conference and kicked out Kansas.

I'm with you.. I love playing this game.

I am agree. With the patches, this is one of the best console sports games I've ever played.

I'm with you all. I'm playing in 2 MP leagues, plus playing 2 or 3 solo games a week and still having a blast with it.

Same here. I'm in 2011 with two friends, with the odd thing being that this year will be the first human v. human match up.

I really like it too. I'm really glad they added online dynasty. It helps keep things fresh. That said, I'm also having a blast with my solo dynasty. It is a lot of fun going through the playbooks that have custom team plays.

I have a court order from MBBFan to cease and desist any and all enjoyment of this EA Sports title immediately.

Joined a MP league last week, I'm finally enjoying the game :)

Any PS3 people out there?

Totally OT, but that's a great Crean quote Kudos. Never heard that one. Great read on the IU game. Nice to see them win somewhere!

I have Madden, but I don't have this game yet. Hopefully will get it for Christmas. I've put off my Madden dynasty simply because I love importing the the draft classes from this game.

They really put together a solid game this year. Online dynasty has been such a blast I didn't start a serious offline dynasty until a couple of days ago. Trying to do the 1 star to 6 star challenge with UAB.

Agreed, the EBFL has been a great league, and I can see us continuing it even through NCAA 2010's release.

If EA allows that. They have a history of shutting down the online for games after a new version comes out.

Yeah, that is my fear as well. We may not be able to continue our online dynasties.

I'm also enjoying the game after starting a dynasty.

Has anyone had a bug where you hit the goal post on an extra point and the other team catches it bug? I hit the upright and then all of a sudden I was picking a return. I can only guess it was because the guy caught it. I'm lazy and curious to find out. Does it happen every time or was the ref from Lubbock?

I had it happen one time where an opponent scored and I ended up kicking off to him again after the XP, but it was many seasons ago in my single player dynasty and I don't remember the circumstances at all. It has only happened once to me in... 7 or 8 seasons now? I guess actually 10ish seasons including the online league play I've gotten in.

It would be a miracle if we could export our dynasties from 09 in 2010...but that's not likely to happen. I hope that 2010 doesn't have any gamebreaking glitches and has even more working sliders to make it continually challenging. I think by August we'll be ready to start up some more leagues. Hopefully all of the current leagues can make it 3-4 seasons before that happens :)

Some scumbag beat the CPU 165-7 in my online dynasty, granted it was a I-AA team but so much for a "sim" league. I should've never gotten rid of the 360, so could play in the FOFC league. :(

Fuck, never even crossed my mind.

I finally broke down and bought a 360 and am awaiting shipping for my copy of NCAA 09. Can anyone give me a brief recap of what I'll need to do before I get started playing? I'm assuming that patching will be fairly automatic, but is there a place to download slider sets, or a resource for a suggested way of doing them myself? Any roster sets I should be getting? Anything else I am missing?

@BrianD - Sliders here, I don't know if you can download slider sets but they're easy enough to manually edit.

I have DeToxRox's roster set, you can download rosters based on his user name, I don't think any of us have had any issues with them?

Yeah, you can download rosters from my username or DTR's. They are both copies of FK's rosters just added to our profiles for easy access.

Thanks guys. You may see friend requests coming from me in the next couple of days. The request will show as coming from BrianLD.

One bonus of probably having to start anew with 2010 comes out. Our OD's won't be too affected by this:

After 5 Seasons in Dynasty, All CPU Teams Suck - Operation Sports Forums

I had noticed this but hadn't really figured out the reason for it. As far as OVR ratings go, there is a regression that occurs, where most teams start out rated 60-99 in the game, after a few seasons that changes to teams OVR ratings being 50-90, and maybe 1-2 teams in the nation can keep a rating over 90. For someone with better stick skills than me, this probably kills the game very fast. For me, eh I still struggle with those top teams, because the way our slider set works, even if your O-line sucks, speed at HB and WR is so important that the CPU can put together a good offense anyway.

WRs and linebackers on the OL is comical. Nice job, EA!

Speed is the great equalizer in this game. In the RFL, I don't have much talent on the offensive side, but my HB has a rating of 94 for speed, and I have a couple WR's who can outrun a decent amount of CB's. Even if my O-line was trash, if I lined up against a team with a 91 OVR rating but they had mostly 89/90 SPD players at the skill positions, I would have a good chance of winning 9 out of 10 times. It's when you go up against teams like OSU who have the speed and the talent that it's tough. You really have to call all the right plays at the right time, plus have a bounce or two go your way.

Totally agree (*hugs his 99 SPD HB in EBFL*) :D

I gave this guy shit for his score, he says "yeah I know, I felt bad for them cause they couldn't stop me." Then looking at the box score, his starting QB threw 13 TD passes. Someone says thanks for playing sim, he says you are welcome.

Anyway, I bought a 360. I'm joining FOFC league(s) only. :)

Anyone have a problems with Int's in the game? Any given game I throw 3-4 Int's (some are my fault - others, eh) and I pick off the CPU 3-5 times a game - and a lot of my picks are pick sixes. As for sliders I use the following

HEISMAN SLIDERS (7 min quarters)

OFFENSE HUM CPU
QB ACC 40 35
PASS BLK 25 0
WR CATCH 30 0
RB ABLTY 55 70
RUN BLK 90 100

DEFENSE HUM CPU
AWR 70 45
KNKDWNS 40 10
INT 0 0
BRK BLK 20 0
TKL 55 20

any thoughts?

I have too few interceptions in my game as long as I keep QB accuracy for the CPU at 50 and human no lower than 40. With the QB accuracy being related to power (stupidly), the CPU just tries to throw too many passes that are too soft if CPU accuracy is less than 50.

One day EA will perfect the incompletion. In real life 50%+ of incompletions are passes where QBs lead a WR too much (overthrow, usually into the turf or sidelines) or too little (underthrow, into the turf). I just hope one day this will happen on a regular basis in NCAA, instead of nearly every incompletion being a drop reception, a drop interception, or a tipped ball.

Anyone know anything about the Wii version? I'm considering picking up a used copy and am only interested in the dynasty mode. I'm not interested in any other aspect. It would be nice to know if there was an ability to grab screenshots or videos, though.

The frustrating thing is it almost works. I have a QB with 80 accuracy who skips several passes a game, but he is so ridiculously off target (to the point of throwing at wrong receivers) that I'm scared to air it out.

I wish skills would have more of an impact on a player's ability. As others have said, speed is all that matters. I only recruit for speed, especially at the skill positions.

So I beat Oklahoma as Sam Bradford is out for the season and then Texas Tech beats me... two weeks later and 2-6 Texas A&M come to town and beat us to completely ruin any chance I had at a NC.

Two years down, year 3 coming up.

I'm not sure I'll get NCAA 2010 because NCAA 09 is just that damn good.

Ok, so I'm hanging out with my brother for Thanksgiving and he's got PS3. Who wants to tell me where I can download some updated rosters with real player names?

Also, massively disappointed that they got rid of the create-a-school feature. I don't know who these yahoos are trying to appease, but the mascot game isn't more important than a feature that surely made a lot of fans happy.

WOW!

Beat Oregon St. 62-52 in the holiday bowl and although in two years I haven't hit one goal, the AD of Missouri offers me a 4 year extension!!!

I guess two 11-3 years will do that for ya... I'm really excited about next year though!

I'm in year 3 of a 6 year extension with the Air Force and the 5-star QB came in rated an 84. I figure I will play out this extension, with him graduating and then see what else is out there. Maybe take over someone like Kentucky in the SEC. I still don't see myself trading this in anytime soon.

Hmmm. Maybe I need to quit being lazy and cart my PS3 upstairs to get the patch for this game and give it another try. I was looking forward to this nearly as much as I was CH2K8, but I've only logged about 4 hours total time with NCAA Football 09 in the months I've owned it, mostly because I just wasn't happy with it out of the box.

Don't really feel like reading all 34 pages:)...is '09 that much of a step over '08? Worth buying this late in the game or just wait until '10? Grazie.

yesh

While it's not great by any means (too many bugs), it is much better than '08.

What sliders are you guys using?

I haven't posted here, but I agree completely with MizzouRah. This game has held my interest longer than any I've had in a long time, and I'm still playing it (put down Madden some time ago). I had '08 on PS2, so it's hard for me to compare between generations since '09 next-gen is such a big step forward.

Front Office Football Central - View Single Post - RFL slider poll

At least RFL and EBFL are using these,I used it in my single player dynasty as well.

I have been itching to play more NCAA09 than just the couple games per week I get in the online leagues, but every time I go to resume my NC State Dynasty the thought of the O-line and recruiting/dynasty issues bug me enough that I just play something else instead. Even if I never play another single player dynasty again though I've still gotten more out of this game than any NCAA/Madden version ever.

I'm almost through 5 seasons of an online league. I've not seen the issue of other positions playing oline, but there has been a drop off in the ratings. I would suggest using some house rules on recruiting relative to team prestige to keep things balanced. With that said, I've not had an easy time on defense because of weaker olines.

The base roster I used was very accurate, but the ratings were much higher all around than the new recruits coming in. I'm hoping things will balance out now as all of the original players will be gone.

I don't think it's buggy at all... especially after the patch.

I played about 3 games of NCAA 08.. imho 09 KILLS 08.

I let the CPU do most of my recruiting, I just like playing my games.. Maclin is a beast and I'm so happy he decided to stay for his junior and senior years!

I play on AS defaults with CPU running and run blocking up. I'm not messing with anything else until I win a Championship.. which might be never. :)

Finally landed my first 5 star recruit last season, a HB from North Carolina.

I'd say it's approaching one of my favorite games of all time.

Anyone know anything about the Wii version? (anything useful, not just that it is missing useless modes which is all the reviews say)

Most of the bugs only affect online dynasties. The offline modes are relatively bug free.

I started a campus legend career with a MLB, I've never tried campus legend with a defensive player. i ended up making the state finals, getting 5-8 tackles per game and a couple sackes in the playoffs. I had offers from every team in the top 25, I'm a 79 rated freshman, 2nd string behind a 88 rated junior for Oklahoma.

I may go back to my NC State dynasty and look over the rosters to see how bad they are for other teams. I know ratings degrade over time but I'm more worried about O-line depth, etc. I'm in 2017 and have won 2 national titles in a row, I think I've won my last 30ish games in a row going back to 2015. I know a little more about the game now to make things more fair(never call option runs being rule #1).

Another option would be to start a new dynasty with more restrictions from the start to build up, and trying to pick a team at a more severe disadvantage than even NC State... worst team in the nation in a major conference, etc. Baylor? I definitely don't want to let the CPU completely take over recruiting. Maybe require myself to only use quick calls?

QUESTION:

Not that anyone probably has a PS2 anymore, but we do. NCAA2008 had a cool feature where you played high school football somewhere and then was given a scholarship somewhere based on your success. The PS3 and XBOX offered this, but the PS2 did not. Does any diehard out there know if the NCAA2009 for the PS2 offers the high school opening?

I'll try to check today.

thanks

You basically just go to a summer camp - run through some drills then allocate the rating points you earned during the drills. You then get scholarship offers based on your OVR.

Want to make sure. So, on the PS2 for 09 you DO NOT go through picking your high school and playing playoffs before going to a college based on your performance.

Maybe it is time to upgrade to another system.

You are correct, you do not do the high school thing like you do on the PS3 and 360.

So apparently you have to be at least 13 y/o to play EA games online?

Sucks to be my son, who just spent half his remaining Christmas cash buying a second copy of NCAA 09 (he already had it for PS2) so he could finally play h2h online (which seems to be the overriding reason he wanted a 3rd gen system in the first place).

At no time do I ever recall hearing this mentioned anywhere before and it's even relatively difficult to Google up anything about it.

Is this for Xbox Live? If so, when he registered, he probably clicked on the "I am under 13 years of age" box. This flagged the account for COPPA compliance, meaning they can't collect his personal information unless you or your wife allows it. There should have been a message sent that asked you for permission to allow him to register and play online. You might want to contact support to get him activated.

Actually, I went through all of that - having to register for a silver account myself in order to verify him for online play on his gold account and finally had to give up & remove nearly all of the parental safeguards (friends only, approval required for friends list, video, audio, etc) to finally get things to work okay. But since then he's played COD:WaW online already, the two board games last night, the online (live play) demo for some other shooter earlier today.

Best I could tell from the limited Google info I could find, this is some sort of restrictions on EA's part (or at least seemed to be). A user in the UK had recently posted the same problem with FIFA 08 and their 12 year old. As for EA I've tried their support section, their FAQ, and their forum and can't even get a hit for "age" or "age limit" or "age restriction" or much of anything else.
(about as worthless an excuse for online support as I've seen in recent memory IMO).

It just seems f'n nuts that there's a scenario where a kid can blow shit up into little pieces but can't play football online.

It's not EA, it the government. It's COPPA (Child Online Privacy Protection Act).

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sony recently got a pretty hefty fine for collecting info from those under 13 without authorization, so it's not surprising that companies are being more careful about it.

But surely COPPA doesn't require them to make it damned near impossible to find the info and once you do find some to write it in a nearly indecipherable fashion.

When I logged on as me & went through the creation mode, sure enough in the mouse type of the agreement was a confusing explanation about the procedure (by fax or mail) to authorize users under 18 (or 14 or 13, depending upon your jurisdiction) to participate in online activities. But from that there's very little info about how/where to contact them to get the form to fill out, nor is it clear due to some wording on down the section whether it would actually do any good to go through the process since EA (loosely quoting here but pretty close) reserves the right to restrict certain areas from users under 18/14/12.

edit to add: It appears that I've found a phone number for EA support, we'll see if that does any good.

Okay, talked to a live human at EA (just say "operator" during the voice menu & it transfers you).

The form I needed to fill out is from XBox not EA ... but the support guy indicated that XBox wasn't really enthusiastic about helping them with anything. His advice? Lie about the kid's age & just set him up a new account making sure to have him be over age 13.

Did that, declined the gold offer & was given a free one month trial for his new tag. About all we'll lose is his achievements on Fallout 3, so I guess all's well that ends well enough.

So now then, back to NCAA09. I found the AA sliders that seem to be the preferred FOFC settings but what roster set should we be looking for again?

I got the ones from locked tagged "ExtremeGamer" as recommended at Free NCAA Football 09 Rosters Downloads for Xbox 360 PS3 PS2 and Other Consoles (which I found a referral to at pastapadre.com). But his site also refers people to NCAA Football 09 & NCAA Basketball 09 at ncaa Strategies which lists a roster set in the "Fairdale Kings" locker ... and I have no idea which is better, worse, or if they're the same set or what. Or is there another set that is the FOFC favorite that I can easily download without having to ask someone to go through the hassle of adding us as friends,etc?

Thanks in advance.

I use Fairdale Kings...

You don't have to have someone as a friend to use their roster set. I have Fairdale Kings' roster set uploaded to my gamertag. You can easily download his tag or mine. My tag is Eaglesfan27.

Thanks guys, heck of a learning curve for us oldtimers. I'm finally getting adjusted to having a TV that doesn't have rabbit ears though, so there's probably some hope ;)

Have heart Jon. I went through this same process (minus the child) about two months ago and had to ask most of these same questions. It takes some time, but it does get easier.

Us old farts are always welcome to help!

Operation Sports revisited NCAA Football '09 to see how well the patches improved the game.

NCAA Football 09 Postmortem - Operation Sports

Their sentiments seem to echo what those of us here have been saying, that the game is pretty damn good after the two patches.

There was a featured article the day before with a wish list for NCAA 10. The only disappointing thing to me is that the poor defensive pursuit angles aren't explicitly mentioned as one of the big gameplay flaws, or needs for improvement in the 2010 version

That is one of my biggest disappointments with the 09 game. I always feel like I should run out of bounds when a tackler has a good angle on me but chooses one that will never work.

After 1 1/2 seasons with Clemson and another half with Ohio State, I feel like I am about ready to unleash my high quality skills on another FOFCer, or in an online league.

Any FOFC run leagues with openings? Or anyone want to take me on via online over the next couple of days?

I wouldn't put too much stock in what they write. They do have a bit of an EA bias. They missed some of the most glaring gameplay flaws.

I agree the game is better with the patches, but it sucks it took two. I'm getting tired of sports games treating release date like the launch of a beta. Both 2K and EA do this now.