A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

[Bullet Sponge]

These are small touches that made the game easier to administer that are missing from nextgen NCAA football (as far as I can tell)...

One is showing a team's ratings as you're working on your schedule(s). While doing custom schedules for your dynasty you have no idea what a team's rating is. If there's some way to quickly see this please tell me because I miss that. I know once the season starts you can see the matchups w/ ratings but it would be nice to know what strength of team you're scheduling before you commit to playing them.

The other is during your depth chart when you went to swap a player with another, lastgen would show you if the player you were going to use was already a starter at another position. So you wouldn't inadvertently put your starting outside linebacker as the starting middle linebacker etc.

[l3ulvl]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

Things from last gen I miss:

Custom Playbooks

Medical Redshirts

Dreads

[hoopla32]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

I second the dreads/longer hair and DEFINITELY medical redshirts.

[ucas005]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

- off field issues (should be a rating)/suspensions only because it does happen quiet a bit in real life

- dreads/long hair options for sure

- ability to edit height/weight of ALL players in dynasty

[Deegeezy]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

My two: Spring Game & Summer drills.

It helped make the off-season feel more like an off-season and perhaps with the Summer Drills, the extremely low recruit ratings that existed out of the box would make more sense.

[boilerfan1509]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

My two: Spring Game & Summer drills.

It helped make the off-season feel more like an off-season and perhaps with the Summer Drills, the extremely low recruit ratings that existed out of the box would make more sense.

I agree. I cant remember exactly how it worked, but i do remember the Spring game would have "walk-ons" fill in, and some would be FREAKS, but then they would disappear afterwords.

They should incorporate and note some guys that will graduate early, so you can play some of your freshmen in the Spring game. and then ALL recruits should be available for the Summer Drills.

[toast24]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

This topic really reminded me just how much is left out of the current gen games.

Isn't this because the NCAA wanted to crack down on anything that could give it a bad image in the game? That's why things like tattoos, suspensions and the dreads were left out, correct?

[l3ulvl]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

My two: Spring Game & Summer drills.

It helped make the off-season feel more like an off-season and perhaps with the Summer Drills, the extremely low recruit ratings that existed out of the box would make more sense.

I forgot about the summer drills, unless I'm thinking of something else. Preseason training was a quick way to turn around any program, especially the qb distance throw, that was an automatic 5 points every time. But then again, it also made it unrealistically easy to turn your school into a powerhouse so often I'd skip them unless I had a really weak position.

One of my favorite things to do on last gen was take an FCS program and add them as an independent, then recruit as many 2 star players as I could and train them relentlessly in the spring drills. Sometimes I'd go 3 or 4 years in a row of only recruiting and training, without playing a game.

[mjarz02]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

This topic really reminded me just how much is left out of the current gen games.

Isn't this because the NCAA wanted to crack down on anything that could give it a bad image in the game? That's why things like tattoos, suspensions and the dreads were left out, correct?

From what I remember yes, except for dreads...I think that had to do more with player models/player likeness.

Suspensions should of been kept in! What a better way to teach a young kid that if he skips class that the coach may suspend him!

[The Amaizen Blue]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

Why did they take out medical redshirts? I completely forgot about those.

[boilerfan1509]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

I miss the simple format with the old Sports Illustrated Magazines.....where it would show "snapshots" of the games and have a short blurb. I like that we can edit them now, but i wish they would got back to that with edit.

[spoofrice11]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

I miss the simple format with the old Sports Illustrated Magazines.....where it would show "snapshots" of the games and have a short blurb. I like that we can edit them now, but i wish they would got back to that with edit.

I really liked the Magazine covers as well. But at least they have some pictures and it's not just a boring menu screen.

I liked the FCS Schools. (And don't say teambuilder fixes it. You can only add 12)

There are a lot of other things missing as well, which is sad that a game 5 years newer still is missing things it used to have.

[TCF]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

i miss controlling more than 1 team per dynasty. as well as the medical redshirts and the spring games and drills!

[Solidice]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

i miss controlling more than 1 team per dynasty.

you can control up to 12 teams at once on the 360 version, unless your talking about something else?

[Isura]

Re: A couple little things I miss in last gen NCAA

What version/year are you guys talkinga bout? What's the best ncaa version on old gen system?