[return.specialist]

Reading the posts in this thread lends some support to my suspicion that there is, hidden either in the hard-code or accessible in game files externally, a variable for the 'enthusiasm' of a program's fanbase or perhaps the zealousness/involvement of boosters.

I have been coaching ECU for 10 years now (after being promoted from OC) and want the University of Kentucky job. The current UK coach has met the absolute minimum of goals and little more during his 7- or 8-year tenure. I play as UK's opponent in every bowl game recently--in an attempt to defeat UK--in hopes it will affect his job security. Unrelatedly, however, what I've noticed in the 3 or 4 UK bowl games I have played, the opponent has always been the home team but UK has a disproportionate volume of fans in attendance. Now, in Lexington, football isn't basketball but the UK fanbase is known for its fanaticism and traveling well.

Apologies for shifting the topic, the discussion just prompted me to do so.