EBFL Year Two Offseason Thread!!! Player Cuts!! Files due Monday at Midnight
 

Players Leaving

Colorado

FS Jalil Brown - NFL Draft
CB Jimmy Smith - NFL Draft
CB Mark Pollard - Transfer to USC

Arkansas

FS Bret Harris - Pro Draft
DE Damario Ambrose - Pro Draft
QB Ryan Mallett - Pro Draft
RG DeMarcus Love - Pro Draft

Cincinnati

None

Kentucky

RE Josh Minton - Pro Draft
WR Andre Henderson - Pro Draft
LOLB Taylor Wyndham - Transfer to WMU

NC State

SS Javon Walker - Pro Draft
MLB Thomas Barnes - Transfer to Pitt

North Carolona

SS Shaun Draughn - Pro Draft
CB Kendric Burney - Pro Draft

Oklahoma State

QB Brandon Weeden - Pro Draft
RB Kendall Hunter - Pro Draft
LE Ugo Chinasa - Pro Draft
WR Dez Bryant - Pro Draft
CB Don Nash - Transfer to Wisconsin

Ole Miss

WR Marketh Summers - Pro Draft

Texas A&M

QB Jerrod Johnson - Pro Draft

USF

HB Mike Ford - Pro Draft
MLB Phil Allen - Transfer to LSU
RT Dane Johnson - Transfer to NC State
RG Reggie Williams - Transfer to NC State

Virginia

None

Transfer Requests Due Tuesday January 6th!!

This is a quick stage, all you do is check to see if you have any guys coming in and then accept or decline. Takes two seconds.

I guess this is an advantage of sucking - kids don't leave early for the draft?

Interesting that USF had two guys transfer to NC State, a Human owned team.

Transfers are weird. I lost Pollard, who was a starting DB for me. I do think it's becasue I broke a promise to him but I forgot what I even promised him.

Usually though kids who have outstanding years go pro.

Like I said - an advantage to my performance this season ;).

F. U. C. K. Me. The non-bold guys hurt too, but this is gonna be tough to get past, especially Weeden who was just a soph.

Expected Mallett to leave and was trying out his backup Wilson and I think he'll step in and play well. Really surprised Harris left though.

Didn't see that one coming as he had a very ordinary year. I'll take my loses over Logan's though.

If an ordinary year = going, shouldn't a record-breaking year = staying?

Please?

PLEASE!

I had no transfers wanting to come to UVA :(.

Recruiting Week 1

Files due Thursday at Midnight. Two day cycle for each recruiting stage.

WTF is this see post 11 for details? Lazy ass SOB!

What the hell, Radii? Where you get off taking two of my players? :)

I have no idea. They weren't very good, but how could I say no? :D

I got a problem.

I completed my recruiting hours. Then when I was exiting the recruit interface I got the "EA servers unavailable" message. I hit retry and it eventually looked like it uploaded my data. When I hit the main board I still had 10 hours showing. I went back into the recruiting interface and it showed 0 hours. Went back to the main board and it still shows 10.

I exited Dynasty and came back. Both screens show a full 10 hours. I guess it didn't accept my upload. I went through the entire recruiting process again and got the same results. I then exited and deleted the detoxrox dynasty file on my 360 and went back. The game downloaded a fresh file, but I get the same results. I can't get it to accept my completed recruiting upload.

Is there anything I can do?

Hrm.

This happened to Mike and I had to delete him then add him the next sim. We tried everything and that's all that seemed to work.

What happens to the recruiting?

The CPU would basically use your board, but add a few guys at positions you need guys at. Generally this would only affect your lower guys on the board.

I should be done with my recruiting in about an hour.

EBFL Week 2 Recruiting

Midnight Saturday deadline boys.

Whew, I got the servers not available error again when completing the cycle. This time when I pulled out the wireless adapter and plugged it in, when I reconnected it took!

It looks like it is best not to do the recruiting when the servers are slow, in order to avoid this scenario.

Odd that in this phase you don't get the pop-up about commitments.

But..

I NABBED A FOUR STAR!!! ;)

It was a WR. Balanced unfortunately rather than speed, but still - I'll take any 4-star I can get right now.

I started doing my recruiting but ran out of time, I'll finish tonight.

Your class is shapin up nice.

I haven't looked at everyone else's class, but for all my bitching it really has turned out not so bad. No 5-stars and limited 4-stars, but a lot of 3-stars at key positions and with skillsets that I like.

If my xbox survives through all of next season we should be in a pretty good position for recruiting next year.

I'm pretty sure UVA has a top 25 class, 4th in the ACC, definitely heading in the right direction.

Alright, to go along with the in-season 4-star OLB commit Justin NesSmith, we add most of our high priority recruits during week 1:

4* QB Justin Tepper (#9 QB) - With Wheeden declaring early, he may have a shot at the open competition
4* JUCO DT Shawn Cunningham (#11 DT - previous soft commit to Michigan I believe)
4* DE Nick Jasmin (#19 DE)
4* CB John Rogers (#20 CB)
4* OLB Chuck Guillory (#24 OLB)
4* ATH Jermaine Felder (#13 ATH - probable RB)
4* WR Randall Downing (#15 WR) - The A speed should be helpful

3* CB Howard King (#51 CB) committed to us after receiving an offer this week. Let's hope that A+ awareness works out for us.

It was important for me to get these guys locked in, as I'll be out of town this week and probably won't get in anymore stages unless we get seriously moving.

I was feeling good about my class (and still am to an extent) until I looked at the top 5-10 teams (mostly humans).. just wow..

I do rank at #23 though, but that's with 0 5 star, 1 4 star, and 10 3 star.

Recruiting Week 3

Gettin to that halfway point! Files due Monday at Midnight.

Jumped up to the #2 class now.

Added 7 more commits during week 2, including 4 more 4*s. Our class now sits at #6.

Got my stuff done for week 3, feel free to proceed without me as I'll be out until Thursday (unless everyone can manage to get done tonight).

I'll be getting mine done in about an hour.

At least as far as the ACC is concerned things evened up quite a bit for week 3...

I have the #11 class, Mike has the #12 class at UNC, and you have the #16 class at UVA.

Virginia Tech and Florida State are 19 and 21.

I agree, and I wasn't trying to complain too much. But, I'm getting my ranking with a bulk of 3*'s at need positions. If you look at the 4* numbers it's a pretty decent difference. I have 1. I think the next human has... 5? 6?

Anyway, I'm fine with it - just shows how big of a gap there is between 16 and like 6 where Logan just got 4 4*'s in one week.

What can I say... walk into their homes, flash Big XII championship rings on both hands, and the kids commit on the spot :).

Recruiting Week 4

Files due Wednesday at midnight.

Sorry I have been last man lately. I am a manager of a Limo company in Tampa and work has been crazy getting ready for this football game at the end of the month!

I'm going to try to get my stuff finished tonight, but there is a good chance that I won't be able to until tomorrow evening.

I don't think I've ever had a 20 person recruiting class before. Plus I have 3 transfers coming in, I'm going to be cutting half these guys.

Week 5 Recruiting

Final stage of recruiting is due Friday at midnight.

I hope you weren't planning on recruiting at Tucker High next season.

I was not able to recruit last night -- my internet went down (my phone and internet went down) due to the storm we got.

I might need to fire my assistants; they didn't do shit during week 4.

Position Changes

Pretty easy stage. Takes about 2 minutes to do. Files due Sunday at 1 pm est.

Mike is going to hate me. The #2 recruit in the nation this past season, HB John Austin, had me #1, and UNC #2. He insta-signed with me in week 1 when I offered him a scholarship.

He comes into Raleigh as one of the 2 or 3 highest rated freshman I've seen in this game, including my 8 seasons of single player dynasty play. Austin is rated 86 OVR, and shockingly, like returning Heisman winner Brandon Roberts, Austin has a 99 SPD rating. Unlike Roberts, Austin is also rated 98 in ACC, is rated 90 in Elusiveness(roberts was 67).


The rest of our class is a bit disappointing, none of my 3* guys have higher than average ratings and one of my 4* guys is a bit of a dud. But with two stud HB's and the increase to 4* prestige that NC State received this year, we should be able to improve this year and start pulling in more high quality recruits.

Player Cuts

Files due Monday at midnight, and then it's off to the preseason!

Haven;t looked, who're we waiting on?

I'm done with player cuts. Also, I will be on the road Tuesday and Wednesday, back online Thursday night. If you get the cuts cycled on Monday, I will log in and do my other stuff before I hit the road. I think the next one is pretty important, because you setup your initial draft board.

I don't have mine in yet, sorry. I should have it done before 6:00 CST tonight.