Five Toughest NCAA Football 09 Dynasty Jobs

[nikka]

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I personally like to bring a 1-AA (FCS) team up to the independents replacing Army with school/teams that are on the brink of being a 1-A school.. like Montana, UMass, Delaware,
& Villanova... I always find it a much harder road to take
I normally schedule three 1-AA teams mainly the rivals of my school & schedule somewhat local games against some good programs I play the games on heisman don't normally win those in first couple of years & simulate against 1-AA teams (95% of the time it's a W) try to land a couple of top recruits during the regular season and build off of them.

I don't know if anyone else likes to do this but for me doing an Ole Miss dynasty gets old I can build them up in 1 year and it isn't very fun or much of a challenge either.

[Computalover]

I always scan the 3 2 and even 1 star ranks to find that "diamond in the ruff player" for my maryland dynasty. i can usually secure 3 star players with 4 and 5 star once in a while @ maryland. but i have in games past found some players like a 1 star kid who had 99 speed 98 agility and 98 acceleration.. but bricks for hands.. and he was about 5'8.. 176 or something.. i put him in as the KR/PR and DB.. 4 years later this kid was all over the place! slapping balls.. still couldnt catch for crap.. but his cover skills and his jump wow!

I found many players like this and slowly built maryland up to the national championship in 2016, with some secondary bowls and a few BCS bowls along the way... also.. in your schedule, schedule powerhouse teams as often as possible, that helps with the prestige.. (you will suffer some thumpings early on) but playing USC is better than Temple if you want to woo some players!

oh.. temple is another team to add to the list lol!

[Ruffy]

Not sure about #5 at all....

Sure its North Texas......but hell it's Texas and no one expects to grab a top recruit but you can accumalte and build more quality 3 star players than most other states....

Last Yr I'd agree Utah was pretty hard....

But I honestly stay away from states where football is a staple.

I used to enjoy bringing a 1-AA team.....say SE Missouri State for example and dragging them into either the Sunbelt for a pretty good challenge or replace a team in the Big 12 for a sickly challenge.

I'd think the indepndents have the worst time...other than ND as they have less chances to build points from winning their confernce etc.

Temple would have to be up there.

[Jas8099]

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Nice! Go ORANGE! I was already planning on seeing what I could do with a 'Cuse dynasty, and now I'm absolutely determined to make the most of it.

Just need to determine how quickly to flood the lineup with freshmen. Do most of you drop your top recruits into the starting lineup right out of the gates or let them work as understudies for a year or 2 before taking over as starters?

[MacPlex]

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How vandy is not on this list is beyond me. they are playing in the toughest conference in the land. they had 25 consecutive losing records. and have one 12 sec games in the last 12 years. Not to mention some like phil steele predict them to go 0-8 sec play. And w/ the fewest returning starters(9) out of all SEC teams, 0-8 seems like fate.

[vanderbiltfan87]

i'm kind of surprised vandy didn't make the top 5. we haven't been to a bowl game since 1982. after that year we are a combined 76-200. lol. only 3 bowl appearances in school history and haven't won a conference title since 1923.

but i will go on the record and say this could be the year we make it to a bowl game. i feel optimistic for some odd reason.

[MacPlex]

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Im hoping they have a good season also but the odds are against them they only have 9 Sr. and the only thing that will help me in recruiting for vandy is location and Academic prestige.

[RaychelSnr]

Not sure about #5 at all....

Sure its North Texas......but hell it's Texas and no one expects to grab a top recruit but you can accumalte and build more quality 3 star players than most other states....

Last Yr I'd agree Utah was pretty hard....

But I honestly stay away from states where football is a staple.

I used to enjoy bringing a 1-AA team.....say SE Missouri State for example and dragging them into either the Sunbelt for a pretty good challenge or replace a team in the Big 12 for a sickly challenge.

I'd think the indepndents have the worst time...other than ND as they have less chances to build points from winning their confernce etc.

Temple would have to be up there.

I agree with your point and it was something I thought about long and hard. There are tons of FBS schools in Texas and North Texas is at the bottom of the list. When you add to the fact Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, and LSU have precedent, perhaps even New Mexico and Colorado...there just isn't that much recruiting talent left. I think North Texas is tough because you have to try to find diamonds in the rough in the state of Texas that no one else wants, and if a Texas or Oklahoma decides they want that player, that could very well mean (if the recruiting is spot on) that you have lost that player.

[Steelerfan2k1]

Oh man - where is Temple? They were the second worst rated team in the game in NCAA 08 (just ahead of Eastern Michigan). It took me years to make them a respectable team.

I loved playing as them though, and I now follow them a little bit. I would be happy if they went to a bowl in real life, and I am going to play as them again this year.

[SirNigel]

Tulane.

[N51_rob]

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How vandy is not on this list is beyond me. they are playing in the toughest conference in the land. they had 25 consecutive losing records. and have one 12 sec games in the last 12 years. Not to mention some like phil steele predict them to go 0-8 sec play. And w/ the fewest returning starters(9) out of all SEC teams, 0-8 seems like fate.

Chris it is a great article. You make some good points. I must agree with MacPlex though I think that Vandy and Duke are 1a and 1b. They have had some good players the last few years but never really more than one or 2 on a team. They just seem like a difficult place to bring in kids. Imagine if oh say NCAA 2012 had academic admission standards. You could almost never win at Vandy. But I can't argue with your list. Anyone of those jobs would tough.

[auburntigersfan]

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Oh man - where is Temple? They were the second worst rated team in the game in NCAA 08 (just ahead of Eastern Michigan). It took me years to make them a respectable team.

I loved playing as them though, and I now follow them a little bit. I would be happy if they went to a bowl in real life, and I am going to play as them again this year.

I would think Temple would be one hell of a job.

[DickDalewood]

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Does Utah State at least have their real stadium in the game? No way can I handle a crappy team AND a generic field!! Haha.

[RaychelSnr]

Chris it is a great article. You make some good points. I must agree with MacPlex though I think that Vandy and Duke are 1a and 1b. They have had some good players the last few years but never really more than one or 2 on a team. They just seem like a difficult place to bring in kids. Imagine if oh say NCAA 2012 had academic admission standards. You could almost never win at Vandy. But I can't argue with your list. Anyone of those jobs would tough.

I think you bring up great points...and in all reality, I think you could very well be right about Vandy. I think the biggest reason I left them off is because I feel rebuilding a team in SEC country wouldn't be as hard as an Idaho or Utah State. However, I think this article brings up a necessary point which I will be writing on for next week and that is academic standards should be in the next NCAA. The only way to add real depth to recruiting is making it tougher to recruit at schools like Stanford and Duke, not to mention the service academies. Just my .02 and short preview for next week

[Cusefan]

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Funny thing is, Playing with Syracuse isn't as bad as it seems. I have played with Syracuse for every NCAA game ever released, sure it was fun when they were good but i like a challenge. In NCAA, the pass blocking was always decent, no matter who you were. In real Life, the Syracuse O-Line is like swiss cheese, just pick a hole.

Hopefully they will win more than 2 games this year and they should, they have a "capable" offense and a decent Defense. And if this game is anything like real life, If you don't win more than 6 games, expect to get fired...