Why Not Having 85 Man Rosters Severely Hinders the Realism of NCAA Football

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Quote: Originally Posted by lasthour

The size of the roster in the end can't make up for lack of realism in the game itself. Sure a fat roster would be more, "realistic", but come on really. The game needs more AI to feel more organic or real, not an 85 man roster. Yet, I see your technical point about the roster.

This basically.

Fix the progression.
Make recuriting more realistic / unpredictable.
Improve rating system and depth chart system.
And other things that have already been mentioned.

Doing stuff like this would an 85 man roster a necessity. Right now it'd just be an unnecessary luxury. It'd look realistic and would be cool to have, but there's no real reason for it. This is a game where you could use the same ~25 players every saturday and not suffer any consequences.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Potatoes002

After playing Skyrim, I'm not buying the "lack of disc space" excuse.

Much more goes into to making a football game and compressing it than you think. Playbooks and commentary alone take up a huge amount of real estate.


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Quote: Originally Posted by PowerofRed25

With 70 player rosters, I have never felt compelled to cut players I knew would make a difference. Either I'm not a good enough team to overrecruit to the point where I have to cut or I'm a good enough team to reload every year and not worry about developing a high 60's type guy into a starter because I'll recruit a low 80's guy one of those years to replace him. Using my last season at Clemson as an example, which was 2015 and I developed them from a 3* starting 2012 (I took over end of 2011 when they had already gone 5-7). I eventually got them up to a 6* team and some of the guys I recruited those first two years ended up getting passed over by younger recruits. I ended up with FR and SO at all the key positions. The only recruit that I actually built up to become a starter was my QB, who came in at 68 and started as a JR over a better rated SO because he fit the offense better.

This is also part of the problem, it is unrealistic (but very easy in the game) to turn a 3* team into a 6* team in 3 years. That drastic of a change should have to be built over 5 or 6 seasons AT LEAST (and vice versa programs that have a few poor seasons should not drop that quickly). So in order to get to that higher prestige you will go through several classes where you will NEED those redshirted players to develop and eventually play.