I spent 4 hours in Dynasty mode and never played a game.

[TrevJo]

Auburn, who's the chick in your avatar?

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by TrevJo

Auburn, who's the chick in your avatar?

Ahh Newbies, you gotta love em.

[Spear]

Dynasty is insane, it took me forever to get Idaho to a C+ rating. The recruiting is so deep, you really have to work if you want to build a powerhouse.

[morganic]

Dynasty mode is awesome this year. By the 4th Qtr of games, I am already thinking about what I am going to do in recruiting. So far in my Illini dynasty, I have gone 7-3 (3-3) #26 in the nation. The PSU, WISC, Iowa stretch murdered me. I thought Mich, ranked #3 at the time, was going to kill me to extend the losing streak to 4 but they had 5 players on injured list (including Henne, Hart, and Manningham, needless to say they didn't have much of an offense.) AA difficultly w/ slight adjustments seems pretty good so far, can't try and force too many passes (Juice Williams 59% Comp 1950 yards 12 TDS 20 INTS!) and generally try and lose bad habits from previous games.

Recruiting is going to be easy for the top notch schools, but those lower on the totem poles will have much harder times. I was staying in the running for 2 5* recruits, as the #2 school, but over time the big time schools won out and I dropped to #6 on the list so I stopped chasing them. So far I have only had one commit, a 1* K who agreed on the spot when I offered him a scholly after his visit in Wk. 9. Right now I have probably 30 scholerships offered to about 7 4*, bunch of 3*, and a few 2*. I lead on probably 25 out of the 30 but none have commited even with some showing full interest bars.

I like that the recruits will grade their campus visits, not entirely sure what all the factors are but I do believe W/L, correct pitches, and performance at the respective positions play a role. I had invited a couple players to the Wisc game and they all rated it as a C (I lost the game). I had a bunch of people for the Wk 9 game against Ball State (Non-televised and barely won) and it was a combination of B's and B-'s. The ones that game the B-'s were the ones from positions that weren't utilized much (TE, FB, etc.)

Overall, this is my favorite dynasty mode that I can remember.

[AuburnAlumni]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Soldier

Because with their amazing 256 yards combined and all 3 TDs, they clearly proved to be a top unit.

Yeah. Because we all know that everyone that EA rates highly is because of on the field production and not bias.

(Hey to FSU, Miami, and Alabama.)

[AuburnAlumni]

Quote: Originally Posted by TrevJo

Auburn, who's the chick in your avatar?

No clue. No one ever asks about her so I never bothered to find out.

[kneebon5]

Quote: Originally Posted by poster

Can anyone answer this recruiting question for me. How come in the preseason they don't show the pipeline states for your school? I take it it comes in time or after the first year? Am I missing something? Thanks for any help. I also spent a bunch of time recruiting and didn't even get to my first game, but I like doing these things when playing the college games.

in pre season to see your pipeline recruits you have to use the search engine, and look at the option "state", just change the state from any to pipeline, and you can see what ever you want or all of the recruits in your pipelines.

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by AuburnAlumni

Yeah. Because we all know that everyone that EA rates highly is because of on the field production and not bias.

I'm not saying is comparison to those three. In general, a lot of Auburn fans seem to think our TEs are some elite unstoppable unit, when they haven't come close.

And for the record, Capps doesn't even approach Michigan's man.