Season 1 - Week 8

[Coach Kernzy]

Flying now fellas. Let's keep the momentum going.

[Underdog]

Memphis back to their old ways after a upset of E.Carolina last week. Tulane rolls on Memphis.

[Gnarlymutt]

Bye we is killin' me! Hoping my rivalry game against 1-5 Bowling Green means that Kent State will be a bowl eligible 6-2 on the year!

[natcret]

I hate this friggin game!!!! I am so sick and tired of being cheezed by the AI....

[Coach Kernzy]

Can you be more specific Natcret so that we can discuss possible changes to the sliders.

[SmoothPancakes]

Can you be more specific Natcret so that we can discuss possible changes to the sliders.

I'm going to guess it has something to do with what he posted in his FAU thread.


Lost with 2 seconds left, 20-19... Really painful loss and totally pissed at the AI. I have never seen players get back to the line of scrimmage as fast as I saw MTSU during their drive with under a minute left so they could spike the ball.

Which is not something that be simply fixed with sliders.

[Coach Kernzy]

I'm open to any and all suggestions regarding sliders and difficulty for our league.

I've looked all over here, at OS and Utopia to try and find a good set of sliders for us.

Some aspects of Heisman are great, some are much less than.

All-American is probably the most even but would need heavily weighted sliders to make the CPU competitive.

[SmoothPancakes]

I'm open to any and all suggestions regarding sliders and difficulty for our league.

I've looked all over here, at OS and Utopia to try and find a good set of sliders for us.

Some aspects of Heisman are great, some are much less than.

All-American is probably the most even but would need heavily weighted sliders to make the CPU competitive.

Well, if a drop back down to AA happens, I still say we use Steelerfan's sliders as at least a starting base. Using them, I just got whooped by Louisville in year 2 of my FIU dynasty 49-23. I was 2-1 at the time, Louisville was 0-3.

[Coach Kernzy]

I'm all for whatever gets us the most realistic games. I'll start doing some testing with his sliders and coach mode.

[natcret]

I'm going to guess it has something to do with what he posted in his FAU thread.

Which is not something that be simply fixed with sliders.

Smooth is correct, I don't think this is a slider issue. It just shocked me that when I did a couple plays in hurry up mode, it seemed forever for my guys to get back to the line. However, when the AI went into hurry up and called the same type of plays that I did, the AI appeared to get back to the line almost instantaneously. I even had a encroachment penalty called on me.

The other issue I saw in my game was when the AI started its no huddle mode. I found that for my game, the computer would go into no huddle modes constantly. I see this all the time with the games. I realize that there are a lot of college teams that run no huddle, but it just appears unrealistic at times.

The good news is that it did appear that the running game was working for once.

[natcret]

I'm all for whatever gets us the most realistic games. I'll start doing some testing with his sliders and coach mode.

I think the settings and sliders we have now are ok. I think what I am seeing are just things that make no sense sometimes.

[Coach Kernzy]

Duly noted Natcret.

Any suggestions at all though on sliders let's hear them. We want to make the sliders as good as possible, not ok.

[Gnarlymutt]

Ok, I'm pissed right now... I logged in to see if we'd advanced and I noticed that the dynasty has me losing last week to Miami of Ohio. I had 5 recruits at that game, and my team played it's butt off for that win. Really kills any excitement/enjoyment I had built up.

[Coach Kernzy]

Well looks like EA does it to us again man.
First the league freeze that cost us some owners and excitement and now this that cost you a win.
Sorry man, wish there was something I could do.

[AustinWolv]

Well......sorry to hear it.........but I had a helluva game last night. Down 14 in the 2nd half, my team came back to tie it up and go into OT. They couldn't stop my passing attack, but had stuffed up my run game badly up until that point. Ended up winning in OT, when my defense got crazy pressure for the entire OT series and forced sacks and bad throws.

[Coach Kernzy]

Hopefully Archedemius and I can get our game in tonight and I'd like to advance after that but if not tonight then I'm planning on tomorrow night so everyone get their games and recruiting in.

[Archedemius]

Gnarly... to fix that so it doesn't happen again you need to load everything multiple times with the right trigger button. And go in and out of recruiting a few times. Your game info didn't get uploaded completely and that is why it happened. It isn't your fault, it is EA's, but the only way to deal with it is what I just said. I do it all the time to make sure my wins stick.

And Coach, I'm back. When is a good time for you tonight or tomorrow night?

[Coach Kernzy]

Probably going to have to be tomorrow night at 8 Central.
I might be able to play tonight at that time but not sure right now.

[Coach Kernzy]

Change of plans, we'll probably have to play tonight if at all possible Archedemius.
Will 8 Central/9 Eastern work for you tonight?

[SmoothPancakes]

Who did we lose from the OD? I'm only seeing 7 people showing up in it.

[SmoothPancakes]

FUCK THE FIU DEFENSE!!@!

How the fuck do you blow a goddamn 21-3 lead, giving up 29 damn 4th quarter points, and allow 70 yard and 63 yard touchdown passes in drives that lasted less than 30 goddamn seconds each. I swear to god this game is pissing me off when I don't actually have control of my damn players.

[Coach Kernzy]

Sounds like some bad play calling to me LOL.
Just kidding man, I know it can be frustrating when you just have to sit and watch your guys blow it for you which is why I have so much empathy for real coaches at all levels.

[Coach Kernzy]

Looks to me like you are simming a lot of your games Smooth?

[SmoothPancakes]

Sounds like some bad play calling to me LOL.
Just kidding man, I know it can be frustrating when you just have to sit and watch your guys blow it for you which is why I have so much empathy for real coaches at all levels.

No, it was just my stupid ass players standing around picking their noses rather than tackling. The 70 yard touchdown pass, 6 damn players never made an attempt to tackle as the WR ran right by them all. 4 players never bothered to try tackling on the 63 yard TD pass. Absolutely worthless.


Looks to me like you are simming a lot of your games Smooth?

When I can, I'll sim some, just to make the games go faster. I'm used to playing as an offensive coordinator, and having the games take substantially less time than playing as head coach. Playing as head coach, these games take forever to play. So I'll sim when I have a comfortable lead or when I am so far behind it's pointless to even try to make a comeback. I simmed the entire 3rd quarter and parts of the 2nd. I think I simmed part of the 4th quarter until Arkansas State scored to make it 21-10. Then I started playing again to try and just tried to kill off the clock as much as I could each drive.

[Archedemius]

Nice game Coach! I felt I had a chance until my players got too winded I guess.

[Coach Kernzy]

Yeah Arch, good game, your guys just got tired and worn down it seemed.