How To Align Conferences For The Long Haul

[Assassin]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes21

How do we know exactly that the B12 will be losing their CCG?

Because according to NCAA rules a conference has to have at least twelve teams to be able to have a conference championship. And the Big 12 won't as of 2011.

[hee163]

If you are bothered about the naming of conferences in the game, and only want a small number of other teams involved try this. Unless you play as Indiana it'll work out nicely.

Nebraska > Big10
Utah > Pac10
Colorado >Pac10
Boise St. > MWC
Indiana > WAC (based on 1 winning season in the last 15 years)

Then fill the Big 12 with either
Wash + Wash St. OR
AZ + AZ St.

Moving Washington weakens the Big12 more (as seems to be happening), moving AZ/AZ St. keeps a couple more rivalries intact. If you play as Oregon.

[NaptownMVP]

Why is everyone moving Indiana out of the Big Ten? Move Northwestern. Nobody likes those nerds.

But seriously, if you're moving IU, why move them to the WAC? Why not the MAC?

[jello1717]

Quote: Originally Posted by kingbrandon56

Why not switch the big ten with the mac and add notre dame or pitt and have the championship game in detroit in big ten country and switch the pac 10 with big 12.

The biggest issue with this is you take away the BCS bid from the Big 10 and, even worse, you give an automatic bid to the MAC schools. I'd also guess that you give the MAC schools a good recruiting pitch with conference strength.

[ZekeRoberts]

Quote: Originally Posted by hee163

If you are bothered about the naming of conferences in the game, and only want a small number of other teams involved try this. Unless you play as Indiana it'll work out nicely. Nebraska > Big10 Utah > Pac10 Colorado >Pac10 Boise St. > MWC Indiana > WAC (based on 1 winning season in the last 15 years) Then fill the Big 12 with either Wash + Wash St. OR AZ + AZ St. Moving Washington weakens the Big12 more (as seems to be happening), moving AZ/AZ St. keeps a couple more rivalries intact. If you play as Oregon.

i think i will do this, except move Indiana to C-USA and move one of the western-most schools in C-USA to the WAC, maybe swap a couple schools there because Louisiana Tech all the way out in the WAC always bothered me...

[jhg7486]

Is there any way EA could release a patch which realigns the conferences after the first dynasty season?

[mavfan2424]

Is it possible to play year 1 of an offline dynasty with the conferences "as is" and then in year 2 re-adjust them to your liking? Or do you only have 1 chance to change them around right when you start the dynasty?

[Pacman83]

Quote: Originally Posted by jhg7486

Is there any way EA could release a patch which realigns the conferences after the first dynasty season?

There's no need, i don't think the conference's will be realigned IRL until the next game (2012) anyway, for NCAA 11 everything after the 1st year is total imaginary and mostly fake.

Quote: Originally Posted by mavfan2424

Is it possible to play year 1 of an offline dynasty with the conferences "as is" and then in year 2 re-adjust them to your liking? Or do you only have 1 chance to change them around right when you start the dynasty?

It has to be at the start, after that the computer handles realignment through prestige and some other random things...