What are the hardest 1 star teams to build up?

[CHIEFxxROCKEM]

San Jose State.

[Kcordloh]

Throw a team like UTEP into the Big XII, or a MAC team into the Big 10.

The really bad teams like Western Kentucky play bad teams in conference, so it's not insanely hard to go 6-6, 7-5, 8-4 your first few years regardless of sliders.

[Ohdang]

I'm an Akron alumni so they get my vote

[nredfoot]

I gotta say Akron is awful. I have dynasty with them right now and they have absolutely no offensive playmakers and like 15 people are interested in them in recruiting. I would bet Wester Kentucky would be tough as well although your first year you would have a really good tailback. Tulane could be difficult as you must deal with LSU

PS. War Eagle! Glad we pulled Diamond last night

[MathisJones]

Real Life Akron is going to be good in 2 years. Got the Bowden boys as well as other FSU alum, & they got Jim Tressell, too. Look for them to be good in their crappy little conference.

[Juce734]

I think EMU is the hardest team from my experience. Haven't played as Akron in NCAA though.

EMU gets worse in year 2 and can be extremely difficult to win with. The defense is so slow! No playmakers on defense it seems.

You are recruiting against Michigan, and Michigan State for Michigan recruits. Luckily you have Florida, and Canada as a pipeline too. Florida is hard to recruit in though as most schools have better pitches than you. Canada doesn't put out a lot of good recruits that want to go to EMU.

[PioneerRaptor]

My vote also goes to Eastern Michigan.

They're not very good in recruiting, and they always seem to have a touch OOC Schedule if you play the default schedules. Their offense isn't too bad, but the defense is just horrible, and most of the time you just don't have the firepower to play keep up with the other team.

Also, I would look into some harder difficulty settings if you win the NC with them the first or second year

[TreyDobbs]

Thought I'd revive this thread from a week or two ago. 13-1 with a Heisman QB and Biletnikoff Award Winner my first year. NC in the following year. I'm going to start an offline with Akron and see how that goes.