NCAA Football 12 - Coaching Carousel Hands-On Preview (TSO)

[RynoAid]

Check out the NCAA Football 12 Coaching Carousel hands-on preview, at TSO.

"First of all, be assured there is some depth to the process and tangible impacts on the teams being coached. This isn’t just rotating names and meaningless movement. There are Offensive Coordinators and Defense Coordinators (no position coaches) to go along with the Head Coach and the coach prestige has a direct impact on the progression of players for the length of time he coaches the team. It’s not as deep as it could be, but for the first implementation, it’s more than I expected."

[PaperBoyx703]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

The best thing about this coaching carousel is that the coach prestige rating will fluctuate based on the coach’s performance throughout the dynasty and that rating has a direct impact on the progression rate of the players on the specific team he coaches. This is critical in creating a dynamic environment in which teams will progress and regress based on the decisions they make when hiring a new coach. This makes every dynasty you ever participate in different and unique in it’s own way.

This makes me feel better since ratings werent going to be in. This is good because I only thought without ratings it would not have effects on the players and only playbooks will change.

So im not completely down about this.

[Assassin]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

This mode will have some life to it. I liked the breakdown for it and I'm looking forward to getting the chance to test it out on my own.

[tyler289]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

So essentially, the coach prestige rating is just an all-encompassing coach rating that directly ties into progression for his team. That's fine with me for a first time feature. It affects the team progression and teams will hire better prestiged coaches. I'm sure we'll see specific ratings in the future, but for a start this sounds great.

[dan_457]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

Not sure how well you can answer this Ryno, but were you able to gauge how big of an effect prestige has on progression. Like Any specifics, i.e if an A+ coach at a 3* program progresses at players at the same rate a C+ coach would at a 6* or whatnot?

I think if they made it so that coach prestige was the main factor in player progression, and not school prestige, it would make coaches have a huge impact.

[RynoAid]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

Not sure how well you can answer this Ryno, but were you able to gauge how big of an effect prestige has on progression. Like Any specifics, i.e if an A+ coach at a 3* program progresses at players at the same rate a C+ coach would at a 6* or whatnot?

I think if they made it so that coach prestige was the main factor in player progression, and not school prestige, it would make coaches have a huge impact.

to what extent i do not know, and really.. it's hard to gauge that unless your doing specific tests to see what those rates of progression are. And to be honest, it's just one factor, so it's really hard to pinpoint exactly what impact it does have just playing the game for a short period of time.

Sorry i don't have a better answer.

[dan_457]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

to what extent i do not know, and really.. it's hard to gauge that unless your doing specific tests to see what those rates of progression are. And to be honest, it's just one factor, so it's really hard to pinpoint exactly what impact it does have just playing the game for a short period of time.

Sorry i don't have a better answer.

It's cool, that needs a lot testing and time to figure it out, but i figured I'd ask anyway.

[canes21]

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Ryno, you probably can't really answer this fully, but when you say programs can fall or rise based on their coach's prestige, is that completely true? What I mean is if Miami is 6-6 and hires a A prestige coach, will they become relevant against after he gets the players he wants? Also, will teams actually fall if a team like Miami goes 11-1, but their coach retires, so they hire a B prestige coach, will they start to slowly become worse under him until they make another hire?

Also, if Miami goes no better than 7-5 for 10 straight years, will they still be limited to only hiring B prestige coaches or will they be realistic and go after a worse coach to try and get the program back on its feet, hope he progresses, or eventually hire another coach after they improve all they will?

[eagskerfan]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

If a coach moves to another school, does he take his playbook style with him?

[canes21]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

If a coach moves to another school, does he take his playbook style with him?

Yes, thats been answered in other previews.

[RynoAid]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

Ryno, you probably can't really answer this fully, but when you say programs can fall or rise based on their coach's prestige, is that completely true? What I mean is if Miami is 6-6 and hires a A prestige coach, will they become relevant against after he gets the players he wants? Also, will teams actually fall if a team like Miami goes 11-1, but their coach retires, so they hire a B prestige coach, will they start to slowly become worse under him until they make another hire?

To give you an honest answer, it will only impact the teams from the standpoint of increasing or decreasing the impact on progression based on the prestige rating. Could that play out in the way your described? possibly. And yes, a high prestige team will have less tolerance for failure and will remove lower rated coaches if they are not performing.

Also, if Miami goes no better than 7-5 for 10 straight years, will they still be limited to only hiring B prestige coaches or will they be realistic and go after a worse coach to try and get the program back on its feet, hope he progresses, or eventually hire another coach after they improve all they will?

I don't believe there is a limitation on what level of coach can be hired. I do believe programs will look at the best coaches available with mitigating factors like Alma Mater having some impact too.

[eagskerfan]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

My bad. I hadn't seen that.

[volstopfan14]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

Just wondering, are there any other coach customization options? By that I mean apperal and hats. A dumb question, but I'm curious.

[sparkdawg777]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

Since Coach Prestige has an impact on player progression why is it that as a HC we can not hire/fire OC's and DC's? If my DC is a C- and I'm just that good on defense that we still have success on that side of the ball will his prestige rating go up? Or vice versa if I am bad on defense but my DC is good like an A- will his rating go down? Also is it actually confirmed that we can not hire/fire OC/DC's?

[RynoAid]

Re: NCAA Football 12: Hands on with the Coaching Carousel

Just wondering, are there any other coach customization options? By that I mean apperal and hats. A dumb question, but I'm curious.

there is a limited amount of customization... shirt/sweater/suit etc.. and headgear/glasses type stuff. It's not that robust, but there are some.