02-23-2005, 11:17 AM
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Rookie
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Re: NCAA Football 2006 Wishlist
I like playing the games, but the off-season stuff makes the game worth it for me.
1. I would like to have some sort of expanded AD type mode. Where the AD can make upgrades to the stadiums, upgrade facilities, upgrade academics, make schedules and all other facets of the progam. I would like to take a small school and build them into a powerhouse, by upgrading the stadium and everything else about the program.
2. On scheduling, it is unfair to allow the user to schedule all games at the start of the year. The AD should have to negotiate home and aways with teams prior to the current year. Also, there should be sole games, like when a big program needs a patsy to play, they offer X amount of money for the patsy to come play. That money could be used for all of the improvements at the school plus recruiting.
3. The new NCAA rules need to be enforced for Div. 1 schools, where you have to have 5 home games against Div. 1 opponents to maintain Div. 1 status. Plus there needs to be something that allows Div. 2 schools to make the jump to Div. 1. Start with a year or 2 of probation before you get Div. 1 status.
4. Recruiting needs to be revamped it is getting a little too easy, even for 1 star teams. I can take a bad team, sim a season and get one or two wins and still end up getting several 4 and 5 star players. The key to that is going after big time players in smaller states with no big time programs. Think the North East corner of the US.
In season recruiting would be nice. Each player should be able to have on official visit to a program and the head coach should only get one in-home visit. Other than that all that should be allowed is calling the recruit.
The recruiting now allows you to just throw points at recruits and get them.
Recruiting costs should come out of your profits for the year. No more based on wins and losses, it should be based off of your money. Nebraska had bad year 6-5 and still had one of the top recruiting classes in the country. Hell, they probably tried to recruit half the kids in the country. In NCAA 2005 that would not have happened.
Also, you should be able to have as many recruits visit as you want. You should also be able to offer as many scholarships as you want. Once you fill the needed players in a position, then you can pull back some of your offers. I don't know how many times I lost out on players that liked me because I was trying to get some high profile recruit and he ended up going somewhere else.
I should be able to push facilities and academics to recruits.
Summer camps so that your staff could evaluate the players would be nice also. It would give you a better idea of who you want to recruit. Also it would give you more time with the recruits to lure them to your school.
5. A walk on program would be a nice thing to have. Have all of your scholarship players, plus a bunch of walkons. The walkons would be used for scrimmages and to help fill out your rosters at needed positions. In recruiting you could inivite some of the lower recruits to walk on. This would help out with in-state kids when you are from a small state and there are a bunch of 1 and 2 star players in state. You really don't want to offer scholarships to them, but you need them on your roster so when a good prospect comes along they will have some interest in your program.
6. Injuries during the week and in pre-season should happen. Some of these and during the games should be career ending injuries.
7. Home games you should be able to have everyone on the sideline (scholarship players and walkon players). On road trips you should only be allowed to take 85 with you. That extra depth will give teams their extra home field advantage.
8. Big time programs should not drop off after a couple of bad years, as well as small programs should not become power houses after 3 years.
9. The bowl payouts should go to the schools and conferences like it currently does. That money could then be used for upgrades and recruting.
10. Discipline should not cost, it just happens.
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