Hellisan's Dynasty - Operation Sports

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Posted on December 3, 2013 at 03:22 AM.

Faced with the news that there may never be another college football game, I had to finally purchase NCAA 14 about 7 days ago. Truth is, I've been through the video game ringer with NCAA over the years. From 1996 to roughly 2005 I was a franchise/dynasty posting fanatic, just doing my single player thing happily. Once the NCAA games started coming out one after the other I ditched Madden. The turnover and shorter seasons just really lend themselves to the reporting process. Then online came to be in the next few years and I was in an online dynasty known as The Tradition over at Tradition Sports Online. Eventually I was the commish of the flagship dynasty on that site. I had a great deal of fun with that. However, as time went on, and I moved further from my office and had a child, time diminished, and it started to wear on me scheduling 6 (bad year) to 8 (good year) dynasty games per month or so that all seemed to be right around dinner time and usually on weekdays. Long story short I had to quit that and haven't been doing much football game playing. But like I said, the end of the college football game run seems nigh. Might as well saddle up for one more ride.

The setup

This is a three player online dynasty. I fully realize that EA might shut down the servers at some point but I had to take the opportunity to have a couple of friends in this with me, Twister18 and jfosh from over at Tradition. These are two of the most fun to play guys, straight players who recruit like hell. Neither one of them will likely be going for realism in the recruiting dept. like me so they will have superior teams. Anytime we play I expect to get crushed, but for now this dynasty won't be about user vs. user, stick skills, etc. We all have 1-star teams and might play a user game once every 2-3 seasons or so.

Difficulty: AA (offense) Heisman (Defense)
Sliders: No (not yet)

Dynasty Details

I generally post a very free-flowing style. I am not as structured as some of the guys whose dynasties I admire most. Not as good at record keeping, in particular. Sometimes things will look nice, other times not so much, but I'm just going to be trying to keep up at times. I'm no less busy than I was back when I had to quit the Tradition, so who knows how far I'll get or whether I'll fall behind. I have always had a true love of the NCAA football series, so I'm GUTTED this is all we've got from here on out. To the greedy athletes who filed lawsuits a few years after (likely) bragging and showing off that they were in a video game once they realized they wouldn't make money in the pros: I dislike you.

Posting info: Like I said I'm massively busy, and I'm posting this for my fun. Seeing some familiar faces over here is cool and I will be reading/following what I can but as I'm sure most know, not everybody can trade comments and that sort of thing.. Sorry in advance. No pressure to comment/reply.

Category: NCAA Football