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Bballplaya72 · 12-18-2006, 08:48 AM

Have you guys ever had a school get promoted into a new conference?

A buddy of mine play co-op dynasty, and in our 5th year, our San Diego State squad got promoted to the Pac-10, and Stanford got demoted to the Mountain West. Has this ever happened to anyone else? This was quite a suprise as we were planning on leaving, but we stayed since we're not in a power conerence.

rudyjuly2 · 12-18-2006, 08:55 AM

Its happened to quite a few members on here. I don't usually start in a small conference so I haven't experienced it personally but it happens as long as you are great and some corresponding team in a bigger conference is horrible.

bgeno · 12-18-2006, 07:02 PM

I got FAU from Sun Belt to C-USA after two 8-5 seasons... not too realistic, but I took it. Then went 13-1 in my first year of C-USA... but I lost most of my starters, and now I'm starting 8 freshman(QB, Wingback, WR, C, DT, DE, 2 OLB)... gonna be a long year.

GatorFan1963 · 12-18-2006, 07:39 PM

Yea I started a dynasty with FIU. Spent two years in the Sun Belt before getting invited to C-USA. Spent 3 years in C-USA before getting an invite to the ACC to replace Duke. Surprisingly won the NC after 1 year in the ACC. To me gettting the conference invite is vital when you play with schools who are in non-BCS conferences. Honestly I think the bowl tie-ins for most of those conferences suck so for me, in order to keep it interesting I like the challenge of taking my Sun Belt dynasty team to a BCS conference to see how they stack up.

Sandman42 · 12-18-2006, 11:33 PM

Can computer controlled teams change conferences? I've played a couple years of dynasty and never seen it happen.

oklahoma19 · 12-19-2006, 06:29 PM

I got Tulsa upgraded to the Big 12 and booted out Baylor

Montezuma · 12-22-2006, 01:28 PM

Computer teams do not move up, only user controlled teams do. Even then its not a given. I wanted to change things up in my Dynasty so I took an idea I saw in this forum: create a new coach and take over the top lower division team (0 or 1 loss teams) before the final game of the year. Then play or sim the title game. Somtimes you can get this top lower division team bumped into a better conference.

So far I've gotten Rice into the B12, nixing Iowa State and Utah nixing Baylor. Got Navy in the Big East and Ohio, EMU into the Big 10. UCF replaced NC State in the ACC. Boise into the Pac 10 replacing Wash St. SMU, NTexas, SDSU and UTEP all all candidates for promotion.

i like it because it mixes things up, in this case strengthening the B12 North. It also keeps teams in lower conferences from dominating easily. Rice was getting good, now try it against UT and A+M. It keeps higher division teams honest by forcing them to play these good teams in conference.

Only problem is going back and changing the strategy back to make them accurate after you delete the coach you created for the process. Coaches will be recycled. I had taken over for Navy and after deleting that coach I noticed ther new coach at Navy was "Rice Coach" complete with the playbook and matching defense. When i saw that I was tempted to make the changes that were happening in the real silly season. Instead I just altered the playbooks.

12-18-2006, 08:48 AM	#1
Bballplaya72 Pro OVR: 9 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Iowa City	Change in Conference Have you guys ever had a school get promoted into a new conference? A buddy of mine play co-op dynasty, and in our 5th year, our San Diego State squad got promoted to the Pac-10, and Stanford got demoted to the Mountain West. Has this ever happened to anyone else? This was quite a suprise as we were planning on leaving, but we stayed since we're not in a power conerence.

12-18-2006, 08:55 AM	#2
rudyjuly2 Cade Cunningham OVR: 75 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Kingsville, ON Posts: 14,741 Blog Entries: 110	Re: Change in Conference Its happened to quite a few members on here. I don't usually start in a small conference so I haven't experienced it personally but it happens as long as you are great and some corresponding team in a bigger conference is horrible.

12-18-2006, 07:02 PM	#3
bgeno MVP OVR: 18 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: G-Vegas	Re: Change in Conference I got FAU from Sun Belt to C-USA after two 8-5 seasons... not too realistic, but I took it. Then went 13-1 in my first year of C-USA... but I lost most of my starters, and now I'm starting 8 freshman(QB, Wingback, WR, C, DT, DE, 2 OLB)... gonna be a long year.

12-18-2006, 07:39 PM	#4
GatorFan1963 Rookie OVR: 3 Join Date: Mar 2004	Re: Change in Conference Yea I started a dynasty with FIU. Spent two years in the Sun Belt before getting invited to C-USA. Spent 3 years in C-USA before getting an invite to the ACC to replace Duke. Surprisingly won the NC after 1 year in the ACC. To me gettting the conference invite is vital when you play with schools who are in non-BCS conferences. Honestly I think the bowl tie-ins for most of those conferences suck so for me, in order to keep it interesting I like the challenge of taking my Sun Belt dynasty team to a BCS conference to see how they stack up.

12-18-2006, 11:33 PM	#5
Sandman42 Hall Of Fame OVR: 40 Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 15,191 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Change in Conference Can computer controlled teams change conferences? I've played a couple years of dynasty and never seen it happen.

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12-19-2006, 06:29 PM	#6
oklahoma19 Rookie OVR: 3 Join Date: May 2005	Re: Change in Conference I got Tulsa upgraded to the Big 12 and booted out Baylor __________________ http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...EOKLAHOMA1.jpg

12-22-2006, 01:28 PM	#7
Montezuma Pro OVR: 4 Join Date: Jul 2002	Re: Change in Conference Computer teams do not move up, only user controlled teams do. Even then its not a given. I wanted to change things up in my Dynasty so I took an idea I saw in this forum: create a new coach and take over the top lower division team (0 or 1 loss teams) before the final game of the year. Then play or sim the title game. Somtimes you can get this top lower division team bumped into a better conference. So far I've gotten Rice into the B12, nixing Iowa State and Utah nixing Baylor. Got Navy in the Big East and Ohio, EMU into the Big 10. UCF replaced NC State in the ACC. Boise into the Pac 10 replacing Wash St. SMU, NTexas, SDSU and UTEP all all candidates for promotion. i like it because it mixes things up, in this case strengthening the B12 North. It also keeps teams in lower conferences from dominating easily. Rice was getting good, now try it against UT and A+M. It keeps higher division teams honest by forcing them to play these good teams in conference. Only problem is going back and changing the strategy back to make them accurate after you delete the coach you created for the process. Coaches will be recycled. I had taken over for Navy and after deleting that coach I noticed ther new coach at Navy was "Rice Coach" complete with the playbook and matching defense. When i saw that I was tempted to make the changes that were happening in the real silly season. Instead I just altered the playbooks.

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