NCAA Football General Discussion Thread

[Tengo Juego]

:rofl:

Yeah, I honestly felt bad scoring on all of those, simply because it probably wasn't even his fault. Oh well.

You felt bad, but continued to use the strip ball button. Shut up, you fucking enjoyed it.

 

[I OU a Beatn]

You felt bad, but continued to use the strip ball button. Shut up, you fucking enjoyed it.

None of those are user strips. I don't know why, but if you try to user strip it, it never comes out. If you set the strip to aggressive and let the CPU tackle them or engage the tackle and switch off, the CPU triggers the animation every time. I emailed it to EA, so hopefully they fix it. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Garrett67]

I had a crazy game in my offline dynasty earlier. Playing as ND vs Pitt I was up 21-0 just before halftone thanks to a long TD pass, TD run by Wood and a pick 6. Then of douse some good ol' CPU comeback AI kicks in and they score on three plays. One of which was a 65 yard bomb. Then in the third they score another TD on one long bomb. I can only add a FG in the entire second half and throw 3 picks with Crist. I'm up 24-21on with less than a minute in the game and try to run the ball to get at least one first down to salylt away the victory and of course they stuff me and use all their time outs to conserve about 38the seconds. I punt and of course after a few long completions they are within range of a 50 yard FG. They spike the ball with 3 seconds left and of course bury the 50 yarder.

In O.T. I manage to score a TD on my first possession after converting a crucial first down on third and long, after a sack of course. Tennis of course they answer with a one pass TD. I then hold them to a FG. I get the ball and after two incompletion and a long sack I'm screwed. I'm out of FG range so I have to go for it on 4th and 23. I somehow high my streaking slot receiver in stride in the endzone as he stretches for the catch and tumbles out of the back of the endzone. ND 4-0.

Too much to drink today?

 

[Saluki]

None of those are user strips. I don't know why, but if you try to user strip it, it never comes out. If you set the strip to aggressive and let the CPU tackle them or engage the tackle and switch off, the CPU triggers the animation every time. I emailed it to EA, so hopefully they fix it. I'm not holding my breath.

I get an ok amount of user strips with the strip button. I only use them when a QB is running tho, i don't wanna end up missing tackles trying to strip RBs.

 

[Twigg4075]

Too much to drink today?

No. Sorry. Posting from my fucking phone. Between the auto-corrects and how it just adds random words when I try to space after I type a number I could scream.

 

[Garrett67]

No. Sorry. Posting from my fucking phone. Between the auto-corrects and how it just adds random words when I try to space after I type a number I could scream.

uh huh :drunk:

 

[FirstTimer]

 

[wingsfan77]

No. Sorry. Posting from my fucking phone. Between the auto-corrects and how it just adds random words when I try to space after I type a number I could scream.

Language.

Almost done my 2nd year as the OC at BC (ha) and I've gotten a ton of in-season recruits, don't have any freshman playing this year so I'm sure to have a lot of turn over.

 

[Garrett67]

Language.

Almost done my 2nd year as the OC at BC (ha) and I've gotten a ton of in-season recruits, don't have any freshman playing this year so I'm sure to have a lot of turn over.

I think its English

 

[St. Francisco]

See other players on your team: Depth Chart

See other team stats: Season stats, hold LT

My bad, I should've been more specific...I was talking about the high school portion of road to glory.

 

[Irish]

I think that pipeline players will commit to a school on signing day if there is space on your roster. Even if you haven't offered them, if they are first on your list and you aren't over the limit they will walk on.

Then there is also the "practice squad" walk ons to fill position requirements, but I don't think that is what you are talking about.

And as for the kickers, some positions can be really wonky. One year I will be loaded with like 6 RBs no seniors, and have all the top RBs interested in me. And say I have 2 senior MLBs, I will maybe have 1 3 star guy interested at that position. While I have nothing to back this up, I think you have to build a "position pipeline". I noticed that once my 4 star SS developed into a Thorpe winner, all the sudden I could pick and choose from all the secondary players. Like once you prove that playing for your school could excel their career more players at that position become interested, despite the depth chart.

Maybe I am way off base though.

 

[Nevermind]

Yeah that's a cool idea. But the downside to that is, I'm just going to turn around and cut them because I don't need 5 QBs, 4 of which are freshmen.

Do you know if they used scholarships on them? Normally when I see it happen to me I have scholarships missing which is interesting because on the recruiting help I have it all turned off.

I'm confused why a kid who has no offers, wouldn't accept an offer from the current national champions, unless he doesn't want to play football in college. But then I don't think EA really went that in depth with the game.

I have seen this happen plenty of times. I will be the only one to offer the guy and he will either go to a school that didn't offer him or not go anywhere. I am guessing that the guy is basically choosing to walk on that other team. As for him just not picking a school I guess you could look at it as him either not wanting to play or going to play at a junior college or something. But like you said I am not sure if EA is really thinking that in depth about it.

 

[FirstTimer]

Maynard was raging in the chatbox last night about this game but never mentioned anything specific.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

Was searching the TB site this morning to look for some All-Time teams. Found 16 I really liked. Planning on doing some sort of double-elimination, seeded, tourney with them till we get a patch for the roster fuck up. At which point I can start a dynasty.

Picked the top 12 schools that have the most national championships since the Poll era (1936). Then seeded them by most national championships. If there was a tie, I gave the higher seed to the school that had the most recent championship. Top 4 get byes.

Top 12 teams:

#1 - Alabama*
#2 - Notre Dame*
#3 - USC*
#4 - Oklahoma*
#5 - Miami
#6 - Nebraska
#7 - Ohio State
#8 - Texas
#9 - Florida
#10 - LSU
#11 - FSU
#12 - Michigan

* = Indicates 1st round bye

 

[godspeed]

I'm having an annoying problem online.

After ranked quick games, or lobby games when I return to the main menu screen, I select Ranked Quick Game again I get the following message "The Playstation Network Account Limitations prevents you from using this feature". Something to that effect.

If I click on LOBBY again, everything is just blank. With 1 minute, the network just kicks me off and I have to log in again. Just annoying, anyone know what's cause this? I'd like to just fire up another game after a play one, but it takes a few minutes for the annoying messages to stop coming up. Sometimes I have to restart the whole game.

I don;t have any disconnects in around 60 games, no lag issues, no connection issues. Just this weird message after games on the menu screen.

 

[NAHSTE]

Was searching the TB site this morning to look for some All-Time teams. Found 16 I really liked. Planning on doing some sort of double-elimination, seeded, tourney with them till we get a patch for the roster fuck up. At which point I can start a dynasty.

Picked the top 12 schools that have the most national championships since the Poll era (1936). Then seeded them by most national championships. If there was a tie, I gave the higher seed to the school that had the most recent championship. Top 4 get byes.

Top 12 teams:

#1 - Alabama*
#2 - Notre Dame*
#3 - USC*
#4 - Oklahoma*
#5 - Miami
#6 - Nebraska
#7 - Ohio State
#8 - Texas
#9 - Florida
#10 - LSU
#11 - FSU
#12 - Michigan

* = Indicates 1st round bye

Sounds incredible. Looking forward to seeing JaMarcus Russell and Billy Cannon in the same backfield, and Tommy Casanova and LaRon Landry in the same secondary.

Please do keep us posted.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

Sounds incredible. Looking forward to seeing JaMarcus Russell and Billy Cannon in the same backfield, and Tommy Casanova and LaRon Landry in the same secondary.

Please do keep us posted.

They're all there Nahste!

First set of games is as follows:

#5 Miami vs #12 Michigan

#6 Nebraska vs #11 Florida State

#7 Ohio State vs #10 LSU

#8 Texas vs #9 Florida

With it being all-time rosters, it is hard to decide who to start at certain positions. For example, for Alabama, you have to decide between Joe Namath and Ken Stabler. I went by college win percentage. Stabler is the #1 for the Tide.

Overall, I think Miami has the most talent. Their interior defensive line depth is scary (Sapp, Brown, Kennedy & Maryland).

I am hoping to play one of the games tonight. Either Miami/Michigan or Nebraska/Florida State.

 

[Realist]

Can someone explain how signing day works?

I needed a QB, I sign two. Then come to find out, I actually signed four because I apparently signed 2 other qbs on signing day, not to mention a tackle, a hb, a and a ss I didn't even target.

Also, why is that I was number 2 on an OG's list, was the only one who offered a scholarship, and yet he committed to his number 1 school Texas, who didn't offer a scholarship?

I also really dislike the fact that despite having just won the National title and having lost my senior kicker, I couldn't sign a single kicker. I target about 7 throughout the season, I couldn't get into the top 5 with any of them. Not only that, but during the off season recruiting I offered a kicker who had no offers, and was still only in the top 10 stage. He was a 1 star kicker, who I promised playing time, yada yada, yada. Did he sign? No. He didn't sign with anyone. You'd think that if a team just won the National Title and said "Hey we want you to be our starting kicker" you'd accept their offer, considering no one else was even recruiting you. I did notice that one of the kickers I was recruiting apparently didn't even qualify for college. Gee, I wish I would've known he wasn't going to qualify a little earlier. I wouldn't have chased him all season.

Players leaving early really fuck you this year. I lost my best defensive linemen who went pro early, leaving me a gap at DT. Go into the offseason recruiting and see that all the decent linemen have already committed. I'm left with guys who will simply be tackling dummies.

Check your recruiting plan. You may have recruiting assistance turned on. If you do, the cpu will offer players even if you dont if you have scholarships available. Also if you have and need areas and didn't fill them, you will have walk ons.

 

[Realist]

No, like I said, I have everything turned off.

my bad, didn't read everything. i had to glance. dont know what that is then. i've never had that issue

 

[Bear Pand]

decided to play games against the cpu today for the first time

good to see it still has retarded clock management logic:

down 3 with 3 minutes to go they come out on 4th down to punt...their punter waits for the playclock to run down to 0 before hiking effectively wasting 20-30 seconds. Then later on I complete a pass and get knocked out of bounds with ~1:30 to go, computer immediately calls timeout despite the clock being stopped.