NCAA Football General Discussion Thread

[FedEx227]

That's always the second thing I do. First I go with all interested prospects in team needs. Then I do a find prospects that have me as a top school, offer them scholarships in the first week.

[jms493]

That's always the second thing I do. First I go with all interested prospects in team needs. Then I do a find prospects that have me as a top school, offer them scholarships in the first week.

Yeah well its pretty obvious you target team needs based on how you see it.

Priority

1. Teams Needs (interested recruits)
2. 2-3 Superstars interested (regardless of need)
3. 10-15 interested recruits who I am 80-90% sure I will sign. (pipeline)
4. Throw some scholly's at whomever has me #1 and is worth it.

[dope]

how many recruits do you guys normally go after?

i usually only set my board up with 12 guys that way i can use at least 50 minutes per recruit, esp when you're a small school and your ratings suck you need to use as many as points as possible. i never put more than 15 guys on my board allowing me 40 points a week. the nice thing is if you get 5 or 6 of them to sign by mid to second half of the season you can go back and look for guys that still are interested and haven't cut down their interest to their top 3 teams. those guys that have you at #7 and are still looking at the their top 10 or top 8 can actually be snagged by the end of the season or the first week in the offseason.

i also always leave a few scholarships for the off season for those "new recruits" that come in and are interested in you.

[jms493]

IT really depends on a few factors.

Remember I am Penn State (ton of interested kids) and I had the #1 class last year and signed a full 25 kids. Therefore this year I went with a smaller sample size. Still put 20+ guys on my board, narrowed them down to needs and which kids were just awesome. I add a few people to try and inst sign as well. After week 1 the whole board gets reshuffled a bit because some guys will sign in week 1 with other schools and some teams will jump far ahead making this guy impossible to sign now.

Basically I will always put 20+ guys on the board and it will be a constantly evolving thing. You can sign guys by putting in 10 mins a week b/c no other team is going after them, but for the core group I am dumping in the full hour. I will lose a fair amount of guys but with there are more recruits out there this year where the CPU will simply ignore. Those are the guys you can milk their calls and concentrate the majority of your time on the important guys that have competition.

[nflman2033]

10-15

I prefer 10, but will do more depending on the school I am.

I have noticed that OL and DL tend to get to top 3 schools quicker than skill position guys, so I Target my line needs first, I usually can fill wr and RB needs later. Te fickers and sometime qbs also sign quick so I like to jump on them soon.

[St. Francisco]

I have a very set number I like to keep my roster at, which completely dictates my recruiting. 5 QBs, 5 HBs, 2 FBs, 7 WRs, 3 TEs, 5 Ts, 5 Gs, 3 Cs, 5 DEs, 4 DTs, 5 OLBs, 4 MLBs, 7 CBs, 3 FSs, 3 SSs, 3 K/Ps. That gives me 69 guys, allowing me to target a big-time athlete, or some top ten recruit who has interest in me (I play with Texas right now).

My recruiting board is filled only with the positions I need to fill, and only the proper amount...if I only need one QB, I only target one QB until I either sign him, or I determine that he's too far out of reach. So for instance I have seven WRs right now, so I'm not recruiting one this year...even though the top ten WRs in the nation have interest in me.

[Twigg4075]

agreed to a point....as you wont have as many guys that have your school #1 and also your pitches will be pretty crappy, making it even more important that you go after guys in your pipeline and that are very interested in signing you.

I've never noticed that but I'll be looking for that for now on.

[Swarley]

Got my first 4-star recruit yesterday in my dynasty at Western Kentucky. At the end of year 4. He's a WR.

[St. Francisco]

Random side note: I put Texas State into the Sun Belt as a 1-star program in my dynasty, CPU controlled. And they landed the 8th best player in the nation, a WR, in the first year of the dynasty. He's a 79 OVR, and the best player on the team as a true freshman. Lulz.

[Sharkweather]

Random side note: I put Texas State into the Sun Belt as a 1-star program in my dynasty, CPU controlled. And they landed the 8th best player in the nation, a WR, in the first year of the dynasty. He's a 79 OVR, and the best player on the team as a true freshman. Lulz.

That's awesome.

[Twigg4075]

I really need to focus on recruiting more. It seems like such a fun side task. It is tedious though.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I'll set my board up with 15-20 guys.

However, I'll only really focus on 10-15 per week.

By mid-season, I'm flowing in recruits every few weeks...even as a 1* prestige team.

I will typically go for 10-15 freshmen. Then I add another 10 JUCOs on my board, and every few weeks I look for those players (mostly good 3*, 2* and 1* JUCOs) that haven't gotten offered by anyone nor have cut their list down. Throw them a few weeks, even if they show no interest initially. Sooner or later, as the weeks wear on and they don't get other offers, suddenly, you'll jump into their list, probably right outside the Top 5. Then put the full court press on them. By the end of the recruiting period, you should be this guys #1 and he'll sign with you nearly uncontested. These guys also occasionally get those late offers, but by then you should have a significant lead. These guys are usually the players I don't really pay attention to until I get the first 5-7 priority signings or have those same 5-7 in a significant lead. Then I start working on these guys hard toward the end of the season.

I typically disregard star numbers unless its one of my coaches goals to get to a certain recruiting level. More often than not, getting a 3* freshman and competing hard for him is less beneficial than recruiting a 1* JUCO kid uncontested. The JUCO kid will come in 70+ while the freshman will come in the low 60's for those really down trodden 1* prestige teams. You are going to do a better job winning early and soon with those JUCOs than the freshmen. Also, no promises need to be made unless you are desperate.

I did a sim dynasty with Akron and had the team win the MAC within 3 seasons just by building this way...the JUCOs were mid-80's by the time they graduated (redshirt a few and these guys will be high-80's by the time they graduate). After year 3 and my first MAC title, I had the best overall roster in the MAC conference. I had like 6 first team All-MAC players and another 5 on the second team.

JUCOs were key on the offensive and defensive line. Plug n play...especially for an Akron team that was awful on the lines. After year 1, you basically had 3 scholarship defensive linemen (one DT and 2 DE, one being a senior). First year, grabbed two JUCO DTs + 2 freshmen DTs and 1 JUCO DE + 3 freshmen DEs (one freshman was a * kid that was undersized but speedy and better than the two local junk 3* kids I signed). Two of the linemen ended up All-MAC (JUCO D-Tackle 1st Team and freshman DE 2nd team). Signed three JUCO O-Linemen...two ended up starting and were better OVR than the guys they replaced.

JUCOs ya'll...key to success with those junk teams.

[St. Francisco]

The CPU playcalling in this game is fucking infuriating. I have a beautiful set of AA sliders that I'm using right now, and I love the way the game plays with a few exceptions. But I'm constantly forced to compensate for the dumb-ass computer. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them run on 3rd and long.

Example, I'm playing Oklahoma. They're down by like 20 points. So they get the ball in the 4th, and they run the ball on 1st down. Then they call a timeout. 2nd & 7? Option play, loss of 4. Third down? Screen pass. Of course...that's how you come from behind.

[Sportsbuck]

I've ran a couple of dynasties so far on 12.

I've got my Ohio State dynasty, currently sitting at 11-1 and #3 in the country heading into a Big Ten Championship matchup with 11-1 #1 Michigan State, who I beat 28-24 on a late score in the regular season. I also squeaked by Wisconsin, and Miami by FG's (27-24, and 24-21 respectively), and beat Nebraska 25-14 thanks to 2 safeties by my defense and the suspended players returning as Boom ran for 164 yards on 32 carries and 2 TD's, while Posey had a couple of big catches. I did lose in 4OT against Penn State though, but it was probably the most amazing game I've ever played. Braxton is a monster, I think he's thrown for 21 TD and something like 7 INT this year. I'll probably continue this after the patch drops, I've got the nation's #1 recruiting class committed that includes 6 5*'s and 8 4*'s.

There's my old coaching career dynasty, this one was pretty much a goof around just for fun. I started off as the OC at Kent State. One of my buddies (Old high school QB) plays WR for them, so I edited him to be pretty good and relied on him to lead us to a 10-4 year and a MAC title, but he was as senior and graduated. I took the Mississippi State job after that year, and promptly went 13-1 and 14-0, winning the NC in my second year. Somehow, Mullen had managed to pull in a 5* RB who was 6'0 220 with 95 speed and 98 acceleration and 86 overall prior to me coming, and he was dominant. Ran for just shy of 4,000 yards and 45 TD in 2 years before I got the OSU job and left. I went 13-1 there, as Braxton and the other guys were seniors and had a prolific offense. Defense needed some work, but I addressed that in recruiting. Currently 2-0 in 2015, but I haven't touched this in probably a month.

And then there's my current head coaching career, another goof off one until the patch drops. Went 11-2 in my first year as the OC at Middle Tennessee, The Sun Belt sucks, and I had a dominant run game. Went to Arizona and went 7-6 as the OC, but had the nation's #1 ranked passing offense. Went to Oklahoma next. They were the defending national champs and riding a 14 game winning streak when I arrived to replace Josh Heupel as the OC. I came in, and directed them to another 13-0 season and another NC, and had a Heisman winner in my RB Johnathan Miller. Next year, I had to replace my starting QB, top RB, top 2 WR's, but the Big 12 is so weak (I moved out Texas A&M to the SEC) that I still went 12-0 in the regular season (I had a couple of close calls, beat Baylor, Texas, and Iowa State by FG's) but then USC beat me 56-49 in 2OT to end our 39 game win streak.

I got hired as the HC at LSU right after that game. They were coming off of a 5-7 year, but were still loaded with talent. I went 11-2, with an upset of #1 ranked Auburn, but got crushed by Alabama and also lost to Florida, but won my bowl game in dominating fashion. The next year, I had a 98 ovr rated redshirt sophomore QB, a 93 ovr rated sophomore RB, and I rode them to a 14-0 season and a National championship. Currently sitting at 4-0 in 2016, yet to really get into the SEC schedule.

I've used SilentNature's All-American sliders on OS for all my dynasties with slight tweaks as I've gotten better, 8 minute quarters, 43 threshold and slow speed.

[Ravin]

The CPU playcalling in this game is fucking infuriating. I have a beautiful set of AA sliders that I'm using right now, and I love the way the game plays with a few exceptions. But I'm constantly forced to compensate for the dumb-ass computer. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them run on 3rd and long.

Example, I'm playing Oklahoma. They're down by like 20 points. So they get the ball in the 4th, and they run the ball on 1st down. Then they call a timeout. 2nd & 7? Option play, loss of 4. Third down? Screen pass. Of course...that's how you come from behind.

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Summing up what you said.


I get pulling it out once in awhile because if someone is setting up a throw deep defence, and you are on 2nd, maybe a 3rd depending on RB, you throw a switch and run it. But yeah, I got this as well where 4th quarter and down, but with in reach, they take off running.

I need to do something with my sliders, because the Big East is not strong at all, that if I get by the 2-3 hard opponents I have a year, I'm basically going perfect. Went perfect in my first season, and in my second year I'm like 6-0 as well, but I did have sweet games against Oklahoma and Virginia Tech, so not like it was an insane thing. If I am beating those teams, then teams like Buffalo, Rutgers and that should be cake walks.