NCAA Football 08

Wait til you have to actually do the running and throwing .... oh wait, that's the Wii.

 

I like the recruiting more than playing the game. That's probably because I suck.

 

Got you all beat. Four titles, two Heismans and a year of probation! with Princeton '05, in 10 seasons at All-American level.

Went through two .500-or-so seasons and somehow kept my job, then moved my fastest receiver to play option quarterback for a season and won 8 games and the Liberty Bowl or something. That got me two insanely fast recruits on offense, so I moved my QB back to WR and installed the freshman stud as the starter in my option offense. Got an at-large BCS berth that season, and an invite to the Big Ten (they dropped Northwestern for me ).

Won my first title the next year, rallying from two TDs down in the fourth quarter to beat USC in OT at the Rose Bowl. Finally won the Heisman in my sixth season and back-to-back titles, but lost a couple scholarships for discipline problems. Got robbed of the Heisman the next year, but won my third title in a row. Lost two more scholarships.

My eighth season -- still at Princeton -- I got robbed of a bid to the BCS championship game, and didn't have a Heisman candidate. That offseason, they put me on probation for a year, reduced my scholarships and wouldn't let me go to a bowl game. So about midway through the next season, I suspended a couple scrubs for the entire season to get my discipline levels back up. It worked. Came back and won my fourth title with a collection of stiffs like the '88 Dodgers, then retired and quit the game.

 

Went to go pick it up from blockbuster today. Wow wow wow wow.

 

I could tell pretty much the same story with Dartmouth, sans the probation of course
I think after a couple seasons on the second toughest difficulty, (It's been a year or so since I've played. All-American's the 2nd toughest, right?) I had to bump it up to the toughest (Heisman?) to make it not boring.
Personally, I like playing as an independent so you can make your own schedule and destroy the rest of the Top 25.

 

Did that on NCAA 04 with Western Kentucky. It took me a couple years to get the program built up, but by the third season I was undefeated with all my wins coming against teams that were ranked. I got screwed out of the national championship game, though. USC, who I beat early in the year, got in over me somehow.

 

In 05, I started out as Navy and took them to a bowl game and a Top 25 ranking in my second season. Moved on to Colorado State and won the Mountain West for five straight years and the national title for four straight.

Moved on to Virginia Tech, where I went to the national title game my first year, but lost. Won it my second year. Am in the middle of my third year, but stopped playing when I got 2007.


My first team in 07 was Boise State, just for the blue turf. Zabransky gets hurt second or third game in, ended up coming back for a BCS game, which I won, with rotating QBs (couldn't put my backup on the bench since he had won most of the games in the regular season).

Second year, despite heavy grad losses, I still won the WAC and won a BCS bowl game. Couple Big Ten schools wanted me, but I said no.

Third year, again heavy grad losses, this time on defense. Lost my first two games to ranked Northwestern and Washington, but ended up beating Bama and Hawaii, which is where I;m at now.


All games played on All-American level.

 

I win the title with Marshall. Usually by the third season, I've got the title, and by the fourth I've got a Heisman candidate.

 

Have done quite a few seasons putting Appalachian State into the Sun Belt. I end up working my way up, doing just enough to get by for several seasons until I am recruiting big classes.

The biggest problem for me when you're in the high classes is you can recruit just four-and-five star players, but if you have 15 holes on your roster and fill all of them, computer will add 10 more scrubs that you end up having to cut. Can be quite annoying after a while.

 

That's the one thing I've always hated about the game. I didn't recruit Joe Bob, who's a one-star athlete, to begin with. Why the hell would I want him on my team?

 

As far as flaws in the game go, that one never bugged me. I'll ask again to anyone who got the game: Did they insert a sim to end feature for games you're playing? So if you're up by 50 at half you can just sim the rest of the game? In my eyes, that'd be a key improvement.

 

But what about the black eye the misconduct is giving your program?
The enhanced recruiting should involve real-life things. Like if you're Bama, you should be able to get a big-time booster to give the kid $5,000 under the table to commit to your school.