Rally Sons of Notre Dame - Jrex's ND Dynasty

[jrex1112]

Prologue:

Hello, my name is John and I would like to welcome you to my very first Dynasty Thread, Rally Sons of Notre Dame - Jrex's ND Dynasty
I am a huge Notre Dame fan originally from South Bend, now living outside Chicago. I still get back to see most ND home football games as well as other sports such as Women's Basketball and Hockey.


I am making this Dynasty to chronicle the rise of Notre Dame football under new Head Coach John Bax on NCAA 14 PS3. I say rise because although Notre Dame is a well known and prestigious team, I intend to bring them up from a 1 star program back to elite 6 star status. To do this, I will be modding the dynasty to put ND as a 1 star, lower their recruiting ratings, and replace their default roster with that of a 1 star program. I am currently working on the mod right now and will get the 1 star roster from a different dynasty a few years into the future as to not have duplicate rosters. For the recruiting ratings, I intend to keep Academics, Conf Prestige, Program Tradition, and Television Exposure at high levels to the realisim. I will lower the other ratings significantly. I will also impose Dynasty Recruiting House Rules that I will post in more detail later that will keep recruiting quite challenging.


The final piece to mention about this Dynasty is that I will be playing it on Coach Mode only. I have been playing the NCAA Football series of video games since NCAA 2002 (showing my age) and have never played coach mode before until a recent dynasty. I have really enjoyed playing Coach Mode and have found it to be more realistic than playing normal on Heisman and relying on knowing the kinks in the CPU's game. I will post more about the settings I will be using later.


As I mentioned, this is my very first Dynasty Thread so please feel free to give feedback (hopefully constructive). I work full time and am recently married, so I am not sure how frequent my posts will be. I will also be going for quality over quantity of posts.


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Disclaimer: The following story lines, game results, etc. are purely fictitious and are for entertainment purposes only. Any fictitious story/article posted that any person(s) from the University of Notre Dame or the NCAA feels is inappropriate will be taken down immediately upon request.

[jrex1112]

Dynasty Settings:

Game: NCAA 14 on PS3
Skill Level: Heisman
Quarter Length: 9 mins
Game Speed: Slow
Speed Threshold: 5
Coach Progression: Slowest
Penalty Sliders:

Offsides: 55
False Start: 55
Holding: 55
Facemask: 0
Off Pass Int: 100
Def Pass Int: 100
F/P Int: 100
Clipping: 50
Int Grounding: 60
Roughing Passer: 52
Roughing Kicker: 54

AI Sliders:

QB Acc: 10/15
Pass Block: 35/55
WR Catch: 40/55
RB Ability: 50/60
Run Block: 35/60
Pass Coverage: 50/45
Ints: 30/40
Rush Def: 15/50
Tackling: 50/50
FG Power: 45/35
FG Acc: 10/40
Punt Power: 30/45
Punt Acc: 50/50
Kickoff Power: 30/35

All games played using Coach Mode


Dynasty House Rules/Recruiting:

• Recruits from IN, IL, MI, OH must have ND in top 3
• Recruits from other pipeline state must have ND in top 2
• Recruits from non-pipeline state must have ND as top school
• No scouting until signed
• One ATH per class
• Can't max royal treatment or kitchen sink (only 2 out of 3 max)
• No Limit to number of total recruits
• Recruiting Board cannot be changed after it has been set Week 1
• Limit on number of 4 and 5 star recruits
  • 6 Star Team Prestige
    • 2 5 star recruits
    • 8 4 star recruits
  • 5 Star Team Prestige
    • 1 5 star recruit
    • 6 4 star recruits
  • 4 Star Team Prestige
    • 5 4 star recruits
  • 3 Star Team Prestige
    • 3 4 star recruits
  • 2 Star Team Prestige
    • 1 4 star recruit
  • 1 Star Team Prestige
    • 0 4 or 5 star recruits
  • The one wildcard will be that we can get 1 Indiana recruit of any level as long as he has ND in his top 3

Redshirting will be allowed, but in realistic terms. So only Freshmen and those not on the two-deep at their position.


Transfers will all be allowed to leave. No transfers incoming.


Any player under 96 overall can be talked into staying instead of going pro.

[jrex1112]

Head Coach John Bax Career Records

Career Records
Career Record:	(4-8)
Longest Win Streak:	2
Bowl Record:	(0-0)
Record vs Top 25:	(1-4)
Record vs Rivals:	(3-4)
Average Recruiting Class Rank:	35.00
Top 25 Recruiting Classes:	0
Coach of the Year Awards:	0
Heisman Award Winners:	0
Other Award Winners:	0
All American Players:	0

Season Recaps
Year	Record	Bowl Game	Final Rank
2013	4-8	--	94

[jrex1112]

Saved for future use - Player Awards

[jrex1112]

NCAA Season Recaps
	National Champion		Heisman Winner
2013: Ohio State (14-0)		2013: McKinley Pettway
		226-382, 3147 YDS, 182 CAR, 1007 YDS, 45 Total TDS

[jrex1112]

Just an update on my progress of setting up my Dynasty. I have the roster file successfully modded having replaced Notre Dames default roster with that of a weak team from a different dynasty. I am in the process of testing that roster file in a test dynasty by playing a game and simming a season to ensure that no glitches occur.

Assuming no glitches, I will then work on modding the file to lower Notre Dame's Prestige down to a 1 star as well as lower many recruiting pitches. I will again test that file using a test dynasty.

If all of that testing goes smoothly then I will post my ND roster, settings I will be using, and Dynasty House Rules. Stay tuned

[jrex1112]

Ok, all modding and testing are complete. I am starting the dynasty and have already posted the settings and house rules being used.

Soon I will post the roster and this Dynasty will really start moving

[jrex1112]

John Bax Named New Notre Dame Head Coach

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Notre Dame has found its new Head Football Coach to replace the NFL bound Brian Kelly. His name is John Bax and he is a South Bend native.

Coach Bax will have his work cut out for him as the Irish have been on a steady decline over the past few seasons and now find themselves looking up at the rest of the College Football world as a 1 star program.

Coach Bax was very thankful for the opportunity to lead the Irish into what he called a new Golden Age of Notre Dame Football. The road will be tough with expectations always high in South Bend and difficult scheduling year in and year out.

The Notre Dame AD is confident that Coach Bax will be up to the task with his long history of building up programs.

Coach Bax also said that he is excited to meet the team. He plans to begin evaluating potential strengths and addressing weaknesses on the recruiting trail. His unique Multiple look on offense is said to keep defenses on their toes by changing looks from power runs to 4 and 5 wide sets throughout a game. Defensively the Irish will use a base 4-3 look, but Coach Bax is also known to use the 5-2 to confuse offenses. The Nickel package will as usual play a large role on defense with more and more teams utilizing the spread.

Certainly more to come from South Bend, please stay tuned.