So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

[volstopfan14]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I too prefer realistic conferences, but about 10-15 years into dynasty, I like to think changes would happen.

looking forward to this addition.

I agree. I'll likely not make any changes but in 2012 I will move TCU to the Big East and make other realistic changes. Later on I may make changes based on the preformance of other teams.

[wkukicksbutt]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

Since we have to have at least 1 team in the independents and you can not dissolve a conference, it took some time for me to figure out how I am going to situate the conferences, but I have finally finished. I regionalized all the teams regardless of how big the school is.

ACC
North
1 Marshall
2 Middle Tennessee
3 Tennessee
4 Vanderbilt
5 Virginia
6 Virginia Tech
7 West Virginia
South
1 Clemson
2 Duke
3 East Carolina
4 North Carolina
5 NC State
6 South Carolina
7 Wake Forest

Big East
1 Army
2 Boston College
3 Buffalo
4 Penn State
5 Pittsburgh
6 Rutgers
7 Syracuse
8 Temple
9 UConn

Big Ten
North
1 Akron
2 Central Michigan
3 Eastern Michigan
4 Kent State
5 Michigan
6 Michigan State
7 Toledo
8 Western Michigan
South
1 Bowling Green
2 Cincinnati
3 Kentucky
4 Louisville
5 Miami(OH)
6 Ohio
7 Ohio State
8 Western Kentucky

Big 12
North
1 North Texas
2 Oklahoma
3 Oklahoma State
4 TCU
5 Texas Tech
6 Tulsa
South
1 Baylor
2 Houston
3 Rice
4 SMU
5 Texas
6 Texas A&M


C-USA
1 Arkansas
2 Arkansas State
3 Iowa
4 Iowa State
5 Kansas
6 Kansas State
7 Memphis
8 Missouri
9 Nebraska

MAC
1 Ball State
2 Illinois
3 Indiana
4 Minnesota
5 Northern Illinois
6 Northwestern
7 Notre Dame
8 Purdue
9 Wisconsin

MWC
1 Air Force
2 Arizona
3 Arizona State
4 Colorado
5 Colorado State
6 New Mexico
7 New Mexico State
8 UTEP
9 Wyoming

Pac-12
1 California
2 Fresno State
3 Nevada
4 San Diego State
5 San Jose State
6 Stanford
7 UCLA
8 UNLV
9 USC

SEC
East
1 Alabama
2 Auburn
3 Mississippi State
4 Southern Miss
5 Troy
6 UAB
West
1 LSU
2 Louisiana Tech
3 Ole Miss
4 Tulane
5 ULL
6 ULM

Sun Belt
1 Florida
2 FAU
3 FIU
4 Florida State
5 Georgia
6 Georgia Tech
7 Miami(FL)
8 UCF
9 USF

WAC
1 Boise State
2 BYU
3 Idaho
4 Oregon
5 Oregon State
6 Utah
7 Utah State
8 Washington
9 Washington State

Independent
1 Hawaii

[TMJOHNS18]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

Has it been said if you do custom conferences will there still be conference invites?

That's what I'm kind of worried about. I love that your able to swap around teams year in and year out and make super conferences (I'll probably do one kind of like you see in soccer, top 16 schools in, bottom 2 at the end of the year drop to the 2nd tier while the top 2 join the super conference).

About invites though, since you control everything, it seems like we won't have that but instead we'll just have coach changes. That kind of sucks because if I feel like building a 1* up, I'll have to move them myself into a better conference sits I'll only be getting job offers year in and year out.

[acts238shaun]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

First thing I am doing is every conference champ gets into a BCS bowl. After that the Big 12 is going to have 12 teams again, with TCU and Houston added.

Another thing is since every conference gets into the BCS I am going to line up conferences both geographically and by prestige. Louisville, Kentucky, Western Kentucky will all be in one conference. Florida, FSU, Miami, and USF will be in the SEC, as will Ga. Tech. The Gamecocks will move back to the ACC. I'll also line up Tulane, So Miss, UAB, Troy, FAU, FIU, UCF, etc.

[ACardAttack]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

First thing I am doing is every conference champ gets into a BCS bowl. After that the Big 12 is going to have 12 teams again, with TCU and Houston added.

Another thing is since every conference gets into the BCS I am going to line up conferences both geographically and by prestige. Louisville, Kentucky, Western Kentucky will all be in one conference. Florida, FSU, Miami, and USF will be in the SEC, as will Ga. Tech. The Gamecocks will move back to the ACC. I'll also line up Tulane, So Miss, UAB, Troy, FAU, FIU, UCF, etc.

Im thinking of doing something similar....I liked the one guy's idea for Hawaii as the lone independent since it can be justified since they have to travel more than any team

[MrRudy]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

Honestly, I'm going to completely overhaul the NCAA so many times over. I did it as well as I could in NCAA 11... Creating some pretty darn wild conferences. With the ability to alter the number of the teams in each conference and the postseason rules... it's going to be

Some things I want to do:
BCS = Completely At Large - No auto qualifiers from any specific conference. May cause some chaos

32 Independents - Heard this was possible, may cause some pretty entertaining outcomes.

[volstopfan14]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

First thing I am doing is every conference champ gets into a BCS bowl. After that the Big 12 is going to have 12 teams again, with TCU and Houston added.

Another thing is since every conference gets into the BCS I am going to line up conferences both geographically and by prestige. Louisville, Kentucky, Western Kentucky will all be in one conference. Florida, FSU, Miami, and USF will be in the SEC, as will Ga. Tech. The Gamecocks will move back to the ACC. I'll also line up Tulane, So Miss, UAB, Troy, FAU, FIU, UCF, etc.

I really like the idea of giving every conference a BCS bowl berth, but there are 11 confrences and only 8 BCS bowl berths (not counting the NC)

[Soarindude02]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I think besides the Air Force to Independent and Notre Dame to Big East, I plan on keeping the same conferences until I see something actually happen. Ill probably make one or two moves every year, depending on location/skills.

The plan by the end of it is too have several super conferences and have the other conferences be 4-6. But that will be in around 10-15 years of coaching, maybe even more.

[ACardAttack]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I think besides the Air Force to Independent and Notre Dame to Big East, I plan on keeping the same conferences until I see something actually happen. Ill probably make one or two moves every year, depending on location/skills.

The plan by the end of it is too have several super conferences and have the other conferences be 4-6. But that will be in around 10-15 years of coaching, maybe even more.

its a shame we cant delete conferences

[acts238shaun]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I really like the idea of giving every conference a BCS bowl berth, but there are 11 confrences and only 8 BCS bowl berths (not counting the NC)

I saw two spots on there labeled "open spots" under the bowl names. I assume you can add bowls to the BCS list. If not that is still 11 conferences and the independents. 12 champs = 6 bowls. That leaves two open spots if I can't add bowls to the BCS picture. I'd love to add the Cotton to the BCS bowl mix.

[Soarindude02]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

its a shame we cant delete conferences

AGREED. It would make this so much easier. I could easily get rid of the WAC without having to stick 4 teams in there. Hopefully next year...

I would probably end up getting rid of the WAC and MWC probably, then just add those teams into the other conferences. Maybe instead of having the "Independent" conference, I could rename it the Service conference!? Hopefully another feature next year.

[volstopfan14]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I saw two spots on there labeled "open spots" under the bowl names. I assume you can add bowls to the BCS list. If not that is still 11 conferences and the independents. 12 champs = 6 bowls. That leaves two open spots if I can't add bowls to the BCS picture. I'd love to add the Cotton to the BCS bowl mix.

I'm pretty sure the two open spots were for teams, not bowls. Right now there are 8 BCS bowl slots and 6 confrences have an automatic bid. That would leave 2 extra spots for you to change however you wanted.

[Redacted01]

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its a shame we cant delete conferences

Yea, it would make my classic setups much easier. Luckily C-USA and the Big East still fit in rather nicely because they were built from historical independents, but realism would be a bit nicer with it. In order to delete conferences (which should mean we can rename conferences), they'd have to remove restrictions on independents and allow all bowl tie-ins to be modified.

[Fredonia]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

If bowl tie-ins are in. And Conferences can have their AQ status taken away and given to another conference by the user... Can we pick what bowls are BCS bowls??? If so, bye bye Fiesta, hello Cotton... If not...next year, please???

[Bullet Sponge]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I know you need 4 teams minimum for an active conference, but can we simply empty a conference and have it turned "off" for the dynasty? I was hoping to try a scenario where the Big 12 was dissolved and absorbed by other conferences (as almost really happened) but I didn't want to be forced to keep some gimped Big 12 with 4 bottom feeders in it.