Gen Discussion Thread

[JBHuskers]

I'm going to advance shortly.

[lilheavy]

I'm done recruiting.

[HawkFan]

I'm done recruiting as well.

[JBHuskers]

I'll advance right after work, it will be position changes I think after....so make sure to take a quick look so I can advance later on tonight to the preseason where I'll send the invites to Mors (Purdue) and Chase (Kentucky).

[HawkFan]

I never change any positions, so go ahead and advance past me because I will not be able to look at it again until after I get home from work tonight at 1am eastern and I do not want to slow us down.

[Solidice]

I'll advance right after work, it will be position changes I think after....so make sure to take a quick look so I can advance later on tonight to the preseason where I'll send the invites to Mors (Purdue) and Chase (Kentucky).

that'll be cool. I have an ATH to set(although by default they usually go to what they're "best" at I think)

and I don't need to cut anyone since I'm at 70 players I believe.

[JBHuskers]

I'll double check things after I advance today.

[Chase]

I'll advance right after work, it will be position changes I think after....so make sure to take a quick look so I can advance later on tonight to the preseason where I'll send the invites to Mors (Purdue) and Chase (Kentucky).

w00t

[morsdraconis]

w00t

+1

[JBHuskers]

LOL sorry, dozed off before the Bears game....advancing here in a bit....I'll be home all night tomorrow so hopefully by 8PM or so I can advance past week 5.

[JBHuskers]

We are at position changes....I will go ahead and add in Chase and Mors right now. I will shoot to advance around 8PM central tomorrow unless anyone objects.

[JBHuskers]

My [4star] ATH ranges from 80 to 83 in all defensive positions :) awesome.

edit - all but CB ... bummer he woulda been my 2nd best CB at 80. My LOLB is a senior and is 83 OVR, so I'll put him in as a nice addition to back him up.

I didn't have a FB either, but I have three TE's and one of my 64 OVR freshman translated into a 61 OVR FB so I'm happy.

[HawkFan]

Position changes done.

[Solidice]

looks like I got a transfer from someone. David Wang, LG 76 overall rating. he is better than my current starting LG, but unfortunately he'll have to wait a year before he can play. so it looks like I will have to cut someone after all(I now have 71 players I believe).

best freshman looks like 3* HB with a 70 overall rating. :(

but none were worst than a 60 overall, so it's not terrible I suppose. :rolleyes:

[morsdraconis]

Joined and ready to advance.

Also, I'm going to have to cut a shit ton of people it looks like. The CPU went absolutely apeshit on recruiting SSs, DTs, and completely and utterly useless athletes...

[Chase]

Joined and ready to advance.

Also, I'm going to have to cut a shit ton of people it looks like. The CPU went absolutely apeshit on recruiting SSs, DTs, and completely and utterly useless athletes...

i feel your pain. i have five freshman under 55. ones a DT w/ 44 speed, a pass rush specialist i assume >_<

got pretty creative with my position changes, crossing my fingers as i await training camp

[JBHuskers]

Reminder: Advancing at 8PM tonight.

[HawkFan]

Reminder: Advancing at 8PM tonight.

Awesome, when it comes to scheduling what are you trying to do with user vs user games? Are we looking at 3 a year or 4?

[JBHuskers]

With 9 users probably 3.

[morsdraconis]

With 9 users probably 3.

Yeah. Definitely 3. 4 would get very complicated on trying to get everyone 4 without giving someone 5.

[JBHuskers]

Advanced to cuts....I will advance again tomorrow unless everyone is cool with me advancing late tonight.

[morsdraconis]

I cut the guys I needed to cut (pretty much the entire recruiting class by the computer).

I'd be fine with another advance later tonight if no one else really needs to cut anyone.

[Chase]

Im good to go

[Solidice]

got mine done.

[HawkFan]

Cut players are done for Northwestern

[AustinWolv]

Done last night also.

[JBHuskers]

I'll advance tonight sometime between 5 and 7 central.

[JBHuskers]

Did get home until late last night, will advance when I get home from work.

[morsdraconis]

Got my preseason stuff done. Excited to get started with you guys.

[JBHuskers]

Advanced to preseason.....will advance again Saturday afternoon.

[morsdraconis]

I'm gonna be gone until Sunday evening or Monday afternoon but I figure we'll be in week 1 by then and if I just have recruiting, I'll try to do it through the online feature if you guys are waiting on me or something.

[JBHuskers]

Yeah I'm going to have to figure out schedules....probably tonight. If I advance Saturday afternoon, it will next advance Wednesday when I get off work.

[JBHuskers]

Just got an e-mail that states the OD is ready to advance...good work fellas! I'll do my preseason stuff first thing when I get home and then get schedules set up so everyone has 3 user games, and then advance to week one!

[AustinWolv]

Weird, I haven't done the preseason stuff yet. Just started it, but don't have time to finish now. Won't be able to get to finish it until later tonight.

[JBHuskers]

Yeah if you start it it will mark you as ready on preseason. I'll just hold off until tomorrow then. I'll plan on advancing tomorrow night around 5PM.

[JBHuskers]

Schedule is done so everyone has three user games but the defending champion LSU has four. Also everyone has six home and six away games. That was the best I could work it out.

[Solidice]

unless it changes between pre-season week and week 1, our pre-season rankings are:

1. Alabama
2. LSU
10. Miami
12. Michigan
23. Virginia Tech
26. Northwestern
38. Maryland
66. Purdue
94. Kentucky

[AustinWolv]

Yeah if you start it it will mark you as ready on preseason. I'll just hold off until tomorrow then. I'll plan on advancing tomorrow night around 5PM.
Finished it up a little bit ago. :)

[JBHuskers]

Okay I will advance here tonight.

[JBHuskers]

Season two has started :)) :)) :))

User games:

xRomo9 winz (Alabama) vs. Hawkfan77 (Northwestern)
lilheavy (LSU) vs. Solidice (Maryland)
cdj360 (Virginia Tech) vs. Michigan (AustinWolv)

Deadline Tuesday Night, if you need an extension I will grant a 24 hour one. Then that's the final deadline for simming ahead.

[Chase]

unless it changes between pre-season week and week 1, our pre-season rankings are:

1. Alabama
2. LSU
10. Miami
12. Michigan
23. Virginia Tech
26. Northwestern
38. Maryland
66. Purdue
94. Kentucky

i see i got 3 out of the 4 top teams for my user games. baptism by fire, eh :P

[HawkFan]

Damn I get to start the year against the number one team in the country.

[JBHuskers]

i see i got 3 out of the 4 top teams for my user games. baptism by fire, eh :P

Yeah cuz I totally planned it that way :D Actually I was just trying to get everyone to three user games without seeing who plays who LOL that's enough to try to juggle.

[JBHuskers]

Lost the opening week game to #3 Ohio State 33-26 in OT. Jacory Harris is 97 OVR and over threw a wide open WR in the end zone on 4th down in OT :(

[xRomo9]

Looking to get another shot at LSU :)

[Solidice]

Unranked Maryland gives #2 LSU a scare in Death Valley, but comes up short losing 29-27. Turnovers were the biggest difference in the game. Maryland had 3 while LSU had none. Maryland's defense forced 5 FG attempts by LSU, keeping them in the game. but a fumble with under 2 minutes to go after getting an onsides kick ended the day for the Terps.

Davin Meggett was the player of the game for Maryland, with 17 carries 146 yards 3 TDs

[JBHuskers]

Unranked Maryland gives #2 LSU a scare in Death Valley, but comes up short losing 29-27. Turnovers were the biggest difference in the game. Maryland had 3 while LSU had none. Maryland's defense forced 5 FG attempts by LSU, keeping them in the game. but a fumble with under 2 minutes to go after getting an onsides kick ended the day for the Terps.

Davin Meggett was the player of the game for Maryland, with 17 carries 146 yards 3 TDs

Well at least it's good to know I'm still in contention in the ACC :P

[Solidice]

I'm still shocked that I got that onsides kick. first time ever I think. my HB corp had so many injuries though. my speedster HB is gone for 3-4 weeks I believe, Meggett got injured for a quarter in that game, and it was my back-up HB that fumbled at the end. it seems I always fall short in the end of user games. ugh...

[JBHuskers]

I will advance before I head to bed tonight....which will be sometime between midnight and 1am central.

[HawkFan]

Northwestern falls in their season opener to #1 Alabama 37-19. The Wildcats came out of the gates slow and could not overcome an early 20-0 deficit. The Wildcats made a decent run at the Tide in the second half but just could not come all the way. Dan Persa had 296 yards and a touchdown pass in the loss, while Arby Fields ran for 74 yards.

Northwestern will look to rebound next week as they take on Army.

[JBHuskers]

Advancing now. Deadline is Sunday night.

[JBHuskers]

We've advanced to week two.

User vs. User games this week:

JBHuskers vs. Chase

lilheavy vs. morsdraconis

[HawkFan]

Northwestern gets their first win of the year as the destroy Army 59-14 in non-conference play. The offense was spread out evenly as tailback Arby Fields had 104 yards and a touchdown, quarterback Dan Persa had 194 yards and three touchdowns through the air and another on the ground.

The Cats defense looked better this week causing a couple of turnovers that resulted in easy scores for the Cats offense. The only points given up by the Cats were in the se cond half when the second string defense was in.

Northwestern now has two weeks off in a row before returning to action against Indiana.

[Solidice]

Maryland defeats #16 Clemson 26-9, with big thanks to their defense.

Maryland's offense struggled most the game, mainly with the offensive line. They couldn't establish any kind of running game in the first half and the pass blocking wasn't very good either. thanks to some facemask penalties, they were able to get into field goal range twice to take a 6-3 lead at the half. Maryland's offense picked up a little bit in the 3rd, getting 2 more field goals, then in the 4th, finally getting an offensive TD to take a 19-3 lead. after pinning Clemson inside their own 5, Maryland's defense was able to get a defensive TD with a pick 6 by LB Demetrius Hartsfield. Maryland's defense played lights out all game, only allowing a late TD by Clemson, 2-pt played failed, so the game would end after a failed onsides kick by Clemson, 26-9.

Davin Meggett would end up with 94 yards on 29 carries and 1 TD. he was averaging less than 2 yards per carry in the first half, but finished at 3.2 YPC. LE Derek Drummond had 4 sacks in the game, DT Ian Davidson had 1.

[xRomo9]

I will get my game in Friday

[AustinWolv]

UM beats BC, but the game was ugly and closer than the final score. The UM offense played silly, due to poor playcalling and players forcing things instead of just doing their roles. The coaches failed the players in this game, but it was putting together a couple scores late in the game that gave the margin.
Starting QB Denard Robinson is injured for 3 weeks, so star backup Devin Gardner will be leading the team on the field for the short term.

The defense was solid however.

[morsdraconis]

Got my ass handed to me on a silverplater by lilheavy and LSU.

GG man. Hope you didn't take offense to me just leaving like I did at the end of the game. I don't take losing well, especially a frustrating loss like that one. Definitely don't have the personnel to run the shoot/bone and boy was going with the 4-2-5 a bad idea (I fuckin' hate that defense as it is so I should have known trying to use it was a bad idea).

Of course, LSU being a full letter grade higher than Purdue certainly didn't help either (and your team speed is utterly ridiculous compared to mine).

[lilheavy]

Got my ass handed to me on a silverplater by lilheavy and LSU.

GG man. Hope you didn't take offense to me just leaving like I did at the end of the game. I don't take losing well, especially a frustrating loss like that one. Definitely don't have the personnel to run the shoot/bone and boy was going with the 4-2-5 a bad idea (I fuckin' hate that defense as it is so I should have known trying to use it was a bad idea).

Of course, LSU being a full letter grade higher than Purdue certainly didn't help either (and your team speed is utterly ridiculous compared to mine).

Yeah just like with Solidice, the caliber of my players compared to you guys is the biggest difference right now. That 4-2-5 was your Achilles heal though. Both you and Solidice have solid gameplans and execute very well, you just don't have the personnel yet. I've been practicing that shoot/bone myself and plan to debut it next week against the computer.

[morsdraconis]

Yeah just like with Solidice, the caliber of my players compared to you guys is the biggest difference right now. That 4-2-5 was your Achilles heal though. Both you and Solidice have solid gameplans and execute very well, you just don't have the personnel yet. I've been practicing that shoot/bone myself and plan to debut it next week against the computer.

The shoot/bone is some interesting stuff. I'm just not sure how well it's truly going to work against a human. You started just nailing my offensive line and I couldn't run the triple option at all because of it.

[JBHuskers]

We have advanced to week three. Typically the deadline would be Thursday, but since I'm out of town from Wed-Sat, and busy most of Saturday after I come back, it will be advanced either Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon.

There are a lot of byes, and only one user game (myself vs. Solidice) if we stay on task, I could advance Tuesday night if everyone gets done.

[Chase]

Cobb and Newton* Lead Wildcats to Improbable 40-17 Win over #15 Hurricanes

Key Performers
Morgan Newton, Junior QB - 195.0 QB rating, 412yd total offense, 4td
Randall Cobb, Senior RB - 253yd total offense, 1td
Winston Guy, Senior FS - 3tk, 1 deflection, 2int

Coach's Comments
An early fumble and some fortunate defensive plays allowed us to get out ahead early. Newton's mobility made their defense play aggressive which led to big offensive plays that ultimately sealed the game. Kudos the the lineman on both sides of the ball, I expected that to be our biggest disadvantage going into the game but they played great. On offense we were able to be very successful running the ball, and on defense their blockers never got into the second level allowing our linebackers to stop the run very effectively without us having to be too aggressive (which allowed us to play the pass most the game, which you have to do against a quarterback like Jacory Harris).

*I changed the name of my starting QB from John Fissel to Morgan Newton, because thats who its suppose to be. Pretty sure John Fissel is a walk-on safety

[Chase]

Cobb leads 72-10 Shellacking of Rival Louisville

Key Performers
Randall Cobb, Senior RB - 283yd total offense, 4td
Morgan Newton, Junior QB - 251.9 QB rating, 219 total offense, 4td
Coshik Williams, Junior RB - 7car, 143 rushing yards, 2td

Coach's Comments
Wish they all could be this easy. Good to see Williams playing so explosively with limited touches, Cobb gets worn down as much as he is used in our offense. Winston Guy got his third interception of the season, his senior leadership has been key in our secondary.

[morsdraconis]

Wow, talk about shellacking....

In other news, Purdue is finished with their recruiting. No commitments yet, but we've got quite a few interested parties.

[HawkFan]

Northwestern is done with their recruiting as well. Picked up a 3* guard.

[AustinWolv]

I'll get mine done tonight.

[JBHuskers]

Blah...if I lose to Solidice, I'll start off 0-3 :D

Both of our games so far have gone into OT.

[JBHuskers]

Solidice and I are having a hard time connecting even though we both have open NAT connections.....I'm out of town until Sunday, maybe we'll try it then.....else sim.

[Solidice]

so very strange that it wont let me and JB play each other. we played each other twice last season without any issues.

on my end when JB invites, I go to the team select page and can ready up, but it doesn't show anything for play-style, when I host, it never changes from "waiting for opponent". we both played other user games recently as well. I don't get it. :(

[JBHuskers]

Yep I talked to one of the devs about this last week. And the good catch that you made in the play style not showing up I just passed that along as well. With that said we've advanced. Deadline is Thursday night.

No users games this week either.

[Chase]

Newton's 'Perfect' Game Leads Kentucky to 56-21 in SEC Opener vs. #23 Ole Miss

Key Performers
Morgan Newton, Junior QB - 354.8 QB rating, 15/15, 298 passing yards, 4td, 6car, 93yd, 2td
Randall Cobb, Senior RB - 26car, 165yd, 7rec, 110yd
Anthony Mosley, Senior WR - 3rec, 87yd, 2td

Coach's Comments
Offense is looking great, but the schedule is just going to get tougher from here. I like our chances as long as Cobb and Newton stay healthy, but that doesn't seem probable as much as they both are relied on. Great game for Moseley who was moved from CB to WR to replace Cobb who was moved from WR to RB.

[morsdraconis]

I'll get mine in sometime this week. Gotta work a 10 hour day tomorrow and then it's early shifts for the rest of the week so I should be able to get it in sometime before then.

[JBHuskers]

Deadline is now going to be Wednesday night as right now it's a 5-0 vote for shortening non user vs. user weeks to a three day deadline.

[Solidice]

Maryland dominates Wake Forest 31-10 to move to 2-1 in ACC play(2-2 overall).

Maryland's defense played very well, only allowing a TD late in the 4th quarter. Davin Meggot got 102 yards on 19 carries and 1 TD. Jamaar Robinson went 14-18 125 yards 2 TDs 1 Int, also had 76 rushing yards on 6 carries. Torrey Smith lead the WRs with 9 catches for 100 yards and 1 TD. Maryland's defense had 5 sacks on the day.

Next week Maryland will take on Rival Virginia in a home game that will see a good amount of recruits coming in for a visit.

[cdj]

I will get my game in this evening. Recruiting is already done for the week.

[JBHuskers]

Whenever I get back from dart league tonight I'll advance. Probably 10 or 11.

[morsdraconis]

Sorry guys, my interest in NCAA 10 has waned so much, I'm just gonna drop out. Sorry for wasting your guys' time.

[JBHuskers]

Didn't get home until late last night. Will advance this once I get home from work.

[JBHuskers]

sorry was out late again last night :D I'll get it advanced tonight sometime

[JBHuskers]

:smh: realized I hadn't played my game yet. *slaps wrist*

Looking to play my game around 8PM tonight and then advance.

[JBHuskers]

Sorry for the delay, week has advanced, no user games this week so we will advance again Monday night.

[Chase]

w00t, got some votes for the top 25. should be ranked next week w/ my win over Georgia. still no Cobb sighting in the heisman watch though :/. i guess he needs more tds, ive been spreading them around

[Solidice]

Maryland got off to a quick 17-0 lead in the first Half. Virginia would fight back and tie it 17-17 going into the 4th. thanks to 2 costly turnover for Virginia, Maryland was able to put up 17 more points to go on to win 34-17.

Maryland's running game got off to a very slow start, but ended up nicely. Maryland ended with 196 rushing yards on 39 carries as a team, 258 passing yards on 19 attempts. Jamarr Robinson had one of his best games in his career, going 16-19 258 yards 3 TDs, 3 carries 9 yards. Davin Meggett had 21 carries 104 yards 1 TD. 3 different WR caught a TD pass.

Maryland moves up to 3-2(3-1) currently only trailing Florida State in the Atlantic division. Terps go on the road to face NC State next week.

[JBHuskers]

Advancing tonight...probably around 11PM central or so.

[JBHuskers]

Romo got his game in last night while I was out so I will advance when I get home from work tonight.

[Solidice]

Maryland beats NC State 54-6 in a cold and wet afternoon game.

NC State didn't have a lot of trouble moving the ball for the most part, Fumbles killed their drives. 5 lost fumbles in fact, one of which went for a TD.

Terps
Jamaar Robinson 12-18 223 yards 2 TDs, 3 carries 22 yards
Davin Meggett 13 carries 117 yards 1 TD
Gary Douglas 12 carries 62 yards 2 TDs
Caleb Porzel 11 carries 40 yards 1 TD, 41 KR/PR yards
Lansford Watson 4 catches 75 yards 1 TD
Torrey Smith 2 catches 74 yards
Derek Drummond 3 tackles 2 sacks
Ben Pooler 3 tackles 1 FR, 1 TD

NS State
Russell Wilson 14-18 190 yards 1 TD
Brandon Barnes 12 carries 73 yards
Jay Smith 4 catches 59 yards 1 TD
Brandon Bishop 8 tackles 1 FF 1 FR

Maryland hits the halfway mark at 4-2(4-1) record. a bye week next week before hosting Notre Dame, then the "gauntlet" of 3 away games against top 25 teams(, FSU, GT, Auburn)

[JBHuskers]

We have advanced, and the deadline is Friday early evening as there are no user vs. user games.

[AustinWolv]

#5 UM traveled to #11 Wisconsin and broke out some new offensive sets. While struggling at first against a fast Badger defense, the offense caught their stride later in the game and the game turned into a shoot-out. The normally solid Wolverine defense took too many chances early on and gave up 14 quick points to put the team behind 14-0, with UM trailing most of the game. However, the Wolverines made plays late and left Badgerland with a 42-31 win.
The defense had trouble with senior stud Wisconsin RB John Clay however, but luckily won't likely face a runner of his ability for the rest of the season.
Starting QB Denard Robinson was injured, so backup Devin Gardner picked up most of the snaps even though he left the game momentarily with an injury as well.

[Chase]

Kentucky Sacks #22 South Carolina, Lattimore 42-6

Key Performers
Randall Cobb, Senior RB - 23car, 154yd, 2td, 7rec, 96yd
Morgan Newton, Junior QB - 14/17, 164yd, 1td, 4car, 40yd
Coshik Williams, Junior RB - 9car, 78yd, 3td

Coach's Comments
Cobb 4 Heisman. Looking forward to testing how good we really are against LSU next week

[HawkFan]

Northwestern improves to 2-0 in conference play and 3-1 overall as they down Purdue on the road 33-16. Purdue kept the game close in the first half with a sustained rushing attack and actually led 10-9 with 28 seconds left to go in the half. But Jordan Maybin took the kickoff from the Boilers and raced 98 yards as the half ended to give the Cats a 16-10 lead they would not give up at the break.

Arby Fields led the way for the Cats on offense gaining 114 yards on 22 carries and scoring a late touchdown to seal the game. Dan Persa had another strong showing as he completed 13-18 passes for 208 yards but failed to throw a touchdown. Persa has been sharp for the Cats this year raising his completion percentage from last year and has yet to throw a pick, something he did 16 times last year.

The Cats defense was led by Maybin (7 tackles, int) and Roderick Goodlow (5 tackles, 2 tfl) as the Boilers struggled the entire second half to get anything going.

Northwestern stays on the road next week as they travel to Illinois (2-2) to face their bitter rival in the Fighting Illini.

[JBHuskers]

Gonna advance tomorrow night sometime, estimating around 9PM central.

[JBHuskers]

Week is advanced, one user vs. user game with lilheavy vs. chase, it looks like they're already starting to schedule which is great. Deadline is Wednesday.

[JBHuskers]

Great job guys! I'm the last one left, I'm going to play now then advance.

[JBHuskers]

Miami survives a defensive game early to take out Florida State 27-10.

Advanced, no user games, so deadline is Thursday night.

[Solidice]

I find it strange that I'm mainly a run first team, yet have 2 impact WRs. :D

ND @ Maryland underway in heavy rain. :(

[Solidice]

Maryland jumps out to a 24-7 halftime lead and hangs on to win 27-21. Notre Dame missed 2 FGs, which in the end was the difference. Jamaar Robinson had a great first half, throwing 3 TDs and 200+ yards. He would end with 17-25 268 yards 3 TDs.

Maryland
Davin Meggett 21 carries 121 yards
Gary Douglas 14 carries 55 yards
Caleb Porzel 10 carries 45 yards

Torrey Smith 6 catches 54 yards 1 TD
Ronnie Tyler 5 catches 57 yards 1 TD
Lansford Watson 2 catches 24 yards 1 TD
Derek Drummond 3 tackles 1 sack
Darin Drakeford 6 tackles 1 sack

ND
Dayne Crist 20-26 394 yards 3 TDs
Jonas Gray 10 carries 56 yards
Shaquelle Evans 4 catches 122 yards 3 TDs
Michael Floyd 3 catches 97 yards
Deion Walker 6 catches 84 yards
Anthony McDonald 11 tackles
Manti Te O 13 tackles
Jamoris Slaughter 10 tackles

Maryland moves to 5-2(4-1) for the season, and will start a tough 3 game road stretch. @Florida State, @Georgia Tech, and @Auburn. GT is ranked 8th, Auburn 24th, Florida State is just outside the top 25, just like Maryland currently is.

[cdj]

Did my recruiting (10 min left) and will play the game later today.

[AustinWolv]

UM scores another victory, although the pass defense was severely lacking. UM rushing game is racking up major yards while the defense has held opponents to very limited rushing yards.

[HawkFan]

Northwestern improves to 5-1 with a 24-7 win over #25 Penn State. Arby Fields carried the load for the Wildcats with 30 carries and 99 yards on the day while scoring two touchdowns. Dan Persa continues his streak of no interceptions as he throws two touchdowns and 255 yards in the win.

Northwestern's defense shut down the Lions rushing attack and intercepted three Penn State passes on the way to the win.

The Wildcats return to action next week as they take on 5-2 Wisconsin at Ryan field.

[JBHuskers]

I'll be playing tonight at 5PM and then advance.

[HawkFan]

I'll be playing tonight at 5PM and then advance.

Awesome, have the day off and can't wait to play my next game.

[cdj]

JB - It's just you and Romo left to play and I sent him a tweet about it.

[JBHuskers]

JB - It's just you and Romo left to play and I sent him a tweet about it.

Thanks man, if it isn't in by the time I'm done with my game, I'm going to advance since I'll be gone tonight.

[Solidice]

the battle for the ACC Atlantic is underway in a monsoon(Maryland @ Florida State). both teams are 5-2(4-1) and tied for the ACC Atlantic lead.

[Solidice]

Maryland defeats Florida State 38-21, in a game much closer than the final score shows. a failed 4th down conversion in the 4th and a 4th quarter Int sealed the loss for FSU.

Florida State held Davin Meggett under 2.0 YPC until the final scoring drive for Maryland, where he broke off 2 long runs, including the 34 yard TD.

Maryland had to rely on QB Jamaar Robinson early in the game when their running game was slow, he did not disappoint. 15-22 for 283 yards 2 TDs. Both Torrey Smith and Ronnie Tyler had 100+ yard receiving and each had a TD catch. Meggett finished with 24 carries 100 yards 2 TDs. Gary Douglas 9 carries 61 yards 1 TD.

Florida State's offense was unstopable in the first half, but both Maryland and FSU had long time consuming drives, resulting in a 17-14 Maryland lead with 0 turnovers and 0 punts in the first half. Florida State's offense in the 2nd half had some issues, including a 4th quarter Int. QB Will Secord was 15-21 224 yards 2 TDs 1 Int, Jermaine Thomas 15 carries 57 yards 1 TD.

Maryland improves to 6-2(5-1) and has sole possession of first place in the ACC Atlantic Division. still unranked, but sitting just outside of the top 25 in the media poll.

[JBHuskers]

No user games; therefore, I'll advance Sunday night. Good luck!

[AustinWolv]

Not going to be able to play until a little later tonight.

[JBHuskers]

I didn't get a chance to advance last night, I will do it when I get home from work at 5 central.

[AustinWolv]

Michigan, after switching to a new playbook to use personnel strengths, is appearing to get more comfortable with the new offensive plays. #19 Iowa came to town and was promptly fed to the Wolverines, losing 42-14. UM spent the day making Iowa's QB wish for more padding, including a key takedown early in which the feeble throw attempt was intercepted by DT William Campbell and returned for a TD. UM also got another TD on an INT return.
Denard Robinson threw 3 TDs, but didn't have great rushing numbers due to taking 3 sacks. The offense still has some work to do, but is showing signs of 'getting it'.

[JBHuskers]

Sorry ... had an insane user game after work and had to watch The Walking Dead :) advancing right now.....

Deadline is Friday night.

[Solidice]

Maryland still can't crack any top 25, 26th in the Media, and 30th in Coaches.

hopefully if I can beat GT, I'll get ranked for the first time in this OD. also, if I beat GT, it'll clinch the Atlantic.

[JBHuskers]

Maryland still can't crack any top 25, 26th in the Media, and 30th in Coaches.

hopefully if I can beat GT, I'll get ranked for the first time in this OD. also, if I beat GT, it'll clinch the Atlantic.

GT was my stepping stone into the top 25 :D they were #8 at the time.

[Solidice]

Maryland defeats #11 Georgia Tech 44-17, clinches ACC Atlantic Division.

Maryland roll GT pretty easily, offense and defense both played great. bad news with WR Ronnie Tyler, injured and will miss a few weeks.

Jamaar Robinson 13-17 151 yards 1 TD, 1 run 15 yards
Davin Meggett 14 carries 140 yards 2 TDs
Gary Douglas 13 carries 107 yards
Caleb Porzel 5 carries 25 yards
Taylor Watson 1 carry 3 yards 1 TD

Kerry Boykins 7 catches 86 yards 1 TD
Torry Smith 4 catches 53 yards

Maryland moves to 7-2(6-1) and will play @ Auburn next week.

[AustinWolv]

UM beats up on a 5-3 MINN squad, winning easily, but yet again giving up too many passing yards.

[Chase]

sorry I havent been as active, just now acclimating to my new schedule with a second job.

hoping to find a way into the SEC championship (even if that means meeting LSU again X_X). beating florida could have clinched it but I came up short even with the help of two defensive tds. if not Cobb winning the heisman will be a nice touch to my rebuilding year

[JBHuskers]

Romo is all we have left, I'm advancing tonight early evening.

[JBHuskers]

Week has advanced. One user game .... Romo vs. lilheavy. Deadline is Tuesday night.

[Solidice]

Maryland finally breaks into the top 25 polls. 19th in the BCS rankings, 22nd in the coaches, 18th in the media.

[Solidice]

Maryland lands their 8th win of the season, with a 20-7 victory over Auburn. Maryland scored a FG on their first drive, Auburn answered with a TD. Maryland would put up a TD and another FG before the half, and in the 4th would put the dagger into Auburn with a TD run by Meggett. Auburn had 2 failed 4th down attempts in Maryland territory.

Davin Meggett was awarded player of the game, with 25 carries, 151 yards 1 TD.
Greg Douglas had 13 carries 57 yards, Caleb Porzel with 5 carries 43 yards.
Jamaar Robinson had some trouble, finished 10-17 160 yards 1 TD 2 Int

ROLB Ben Pooler had 7 tackles 2 sacks, LE Derek Drummond had 6 tackles 2 sacks.

Maryland improves to 8-2(6-1), last ACC game for Maryland is next week against Boston College.

[Chase]

I'm not sure how you guys usually go about choosing non-conference + non-user games, but just gonna throw out the idea of some of us scheduling Boise St./TCU. Seems like they always become legit elite teams in my dynasties, but always have a relatively easy schedule/road to the 'ship

I dunno, I'm new. Just a suggestion

[JBHuskers]

Week has advanced. One user game .... Romo vs. lilheavy. Deadline is Tuesday night.

Deadline is tonight.

[AustinWolv]

UM blows up an opponent with ease. Defense was dominating, and the offense was balanced. Good times. UM also picked up 3 recruits (a 4star DT, a 4star T, and a 3star MLB).

[JBHuskers]

I'll advance after work tonight, got too wrapped up in NBA Jam.

[HawkFan]

Austin, I will be able to play tomorrow after 9pm eastern, if not then I won't be able to play until Saturday night after 9pm eastern.

[JBHuskers]

My apologies, didn't get to advance before I left for dart league. Will do so before I head to bed.

[Solidice]

Maryland gets their 8th straight win in a row with a 35-25 victory over Boston College. Davin Meggett was player of the game with 14 carries 182 yards and 3 TDs. he had a 80 yard TD run(first play of the game) and a 58 yard TD run. he got injured and missed most of the 2nd quarter and the first half of the 3rd quarter. Maryland moves to 9-3(7-1), a bye week next week then the regular season finale at home against Purdue.

on a side note, it probably wasn't a good idea to play the game while watching The Walking Dead. I apparently went for a 2-pt conversion in the 3rd quarter without realizing it. :D

[JBHuskers]

Deadline is Sunday evening by the way.

[cdj]

3/8 Ready

JBHuskers - BYE
xRomo9_winz - at Auburn
Hawkfan77 - vs Michigan (Austinwolv)
Austinwolv - at Northwestern (Hawkfan77)
Chase - vs. Tennessee

[HawkFan]

I will be on after 930pm Austin, let';s get this game in tonight,

[HawkFan]

Austin and I have been unable to hook up at the times I was available. I tried but with no luck. No biggie, as I do not want to hold the dynasty up (I can not be on again until Wednesday night) it is fine with me if he plays against my team controlled by the CPU. Or however you want to deal with it. Let me say once again though I do not want to hold us up so please do whatever we need to do to advance.

[AustinWolv]

Hawk, I sent you a XBox message last night to see about playing last night, tonight, or Monday night. You aren't around for a while?
I wasn't on the computer all day yesterday.

[HawkFan]

Yeah I could possibly play Tuesday after 9pm, but tomorrow night I work til at least 1am, and Tuesday is spotty if I can be on after 9pm or not. I am cool with you playing my team controlled by the CPU. Wednesday night after 9pm is for sure but I do not want to hold up the league that long.

[AustinWolv]

Unfortunately, while I can play late Tues night, I'm not sure exactly what time I'll be home as I have a night shoot starting at dark (around 6:30pm probably). Fine with Weds night.

Guess we'll leave it up to the commish to decide.

[JBHuskers]

We already gave it four days....five now with today, I'm going to have to just advance early tonight because otherwise if we keep doing that, we'll never get through a season.

[HawkFan]

Totally understand.

[JBHuskers]

Week advanced....there is a user game, so the deadline is Friday night usually, but with the holiday week, I will push it to Sunday, but if you can, please get your game in ASAP.

[Solidice]

2 tall OLB signed this week to Maryland. didn't realized how tall they were. 6'5" 233lbs, and 6'6" 223 lbs. both are 3 Star recruits. the first one being a JUCO(Jr) player that looks to be pretty good, possibly mid 80's in overall rating.

[JBHuskers]

2 tall OLB signed this week to Maryland. didn't realized how tall they were. 6'5" 233lbs, and 6'6" 223 lbs. both are 3 Star recruits. the first one being a JUCO(Jr) player that looks to be pretty good, possibly mid 80's in overall rating.

You signed this guy?

http://syracusechiefs.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/06/04/TooTallCard.jpg

[Solidice]

lol.

he definitely looks to be pretty good and will likely start next season. He'll likely be the highest rated new recruit this season for my team.

B speed, A+ Acc, B+ block shedding, B Pursuit, B- play recognition, B- Hit power.

D- for awareness though. most of the other abilities shown are C+ and C's.

[HawkFan]

Dang that is really tall for a LB, could be interesting. I'll be playing my game tonight.

[Solidice]

You signed this guy?


in my other OD, I recruited a DE that is 6'7" 295lbs. 93 Acc 75 speed. Finesse and power moves in the 80's. he is a big guy that can move.

[lilheavy]

2 tall OLB signed this week to Maryland. didn't realized how tall they were. 6'5" 233lbs, and 6'6" 223 lbs. both are 3 Star recruits. the first one being a JUCO(Jr) player that looks to be pretty good, possibly mid 80's in overall rating.

I don't know if you noticed but I started to recruit those guys just for the hell of it after I signed all of my needs and was catching up to you pretty fast. I backed off though, didn't want to be the greedy recruiter ;)

[JBHuskers]

Looks like everyone has played and I will advance tonight.

[JBHuskers]

Sorry for the delay....advancing now. Chase vs. Austin is the user game, so we'll advance Friday night.

[Chase]

looks to be a lame BCS champ game barring a catastrophic final week.
Even if #2 Boise and #3 Pitt lose this week I think we are looking at a Utah-Texas/TCU national champ. Guess we'll see.

Conf Champs (rankings current as of Week 14)
----------------
SEC - #10 Kentucky vs. #11 Bama
ACC - #15 Maryland vs. #5 Miami
BIG 12 - #20 Nebraska vs. #13 Oklahoma

looking forward to playing Romo first time, but was kinda hoping for that rematch with lilheavy. hope JB and solidice connection problems have resolved.

[HawkFan]

Yeah the title game might be a disaster this year. But looking at the bowl projections last night there are some interesting matchups for the users in those. I for one would love to play lilheavy or another user in a bowl game.

[HawkFan]

In other Northwestern news recruiting has been interesting this year. The Wildcats have not signed many guys (6), but they have signed a top150 recruit in ATH Brandon Moore, plus 4* TE Germey Haynes, and 4* DT Ben Vaughn , and 4* FS Marion Winston.

[Chase]

Yea I saw that in the bowl projections too. I'm pretty sure you will be playing the team who loses the SEC Championship. So, either Romo or me.

I've only got 3 schollies left this year, and already got 3 soft commits. Looks like I'll be twiddling my thumbs during offseason recruiting

[JBHuskers]

Beat K-State 38-18, but lost Jacory Harris for six weeks. Going to go with my true freshman Ray Smith, a [5star] recruit, #1 overall QB in the class I think.

[JBHuskers]

Advanced to week 15 only recruiting to be done by everyone....so deadline will be Tuesday.

[JBHuskers]

Going to advance tonight....anyone that can give me an update that would be appreciated!

[AustinWolv]

Ready to go already, is it bowls after you advance tonight?

[JBHuskers]

Ready to go already, is it bowls after you advance tonight?

Conference championships I'm thinking.

[HawkFan]

Yeah it's conference championship time. Northwestern is ready to advance as well.

[lilheavy]

Im done until bowls

[JBHuskers]

Two games....Romo vs. Chase for the SEC title, and myself vs. Solidice for the ACC title. Four days out is Saturday night but I have to DJ so the deadline will be extended until Sunday afternoon. Unless of course both games are in.

[AustinWolv]

Im done until bowls

Same here.

[HawkFan]

Same here.

Me too

[JBHuskers]

Solidice & I will get our ACC Championship part deux tomorrow night.

[Solidice]

apparently our 2 games last season were so great that the game decided that we should never play each other ever again. :(

Edit: Scratch that, it amazingly decided to let us play after nearly 2 hours of trying different things.

[Solidice]

Maryland finally overcomes the monkey on their back and get a win vs. Miami. a 28-14 victory, an ACC championship, and a BCS Bowl for the Terps.

Maryland jumped out to 21-0 lead mid-way into the 2nd quarter, the 3rd TD coming after a Miami Int. Miami would score a TD just before the half to cut it to 21-7. then the defenses came to play, and they didn't disappoint. no one scored in the 3rd quarter. Miami would score on their first drive in the 4th quarter on a 4th down play after a good long drive to close it to 21-14. It was looking like it could be another one of those Miami-Maryland OT games, but Maryland Defense would hold on a 4th down attempt on Miami's next drive. Maryland would add their last score on a 67 yard screen pass to Torrey Smith to make it 28-14. Miami's QB Ray Smith would throw his 2nd Int of the game and Maryland would run out the clock.

another GG JB.

Player of the game honor would go to Maryland's QB Jamarr Robinson. 13-15 190 yards 3 TDs. a very good way to go out on his Senior season. Senior WR Torrey Smith had a great game as well, 4 catches 91 yards and 2 TDs.

Maryland held Miami's offense to -3 rushing yards, though it was mostly because of sacks and that Miami was in passing mode the majority of the game(49 pass attempts). The 2 Ints for Miami would end up being the big difference, Maryland did not turn the ball over once.

Maryland is looking at a 10 game win streak going into the Bowl games.

[JBHuskers]

We have advanced to Bowl Week. One user game, HawkFan vs. Romo ... so deadline is Thurs. Just a reminder, for offseason stuff, the deadline will be 24 hours.

[Solidice]

I started the Orange Bowl against Texas, but it froze before getting into the game. not sure if it'll show I restarted or not. I was able to get into the game the 2nd try.

[JBHuskers]

I started the Orange Bowl against Texas, but it froze before getting into the game. not sure if it'll show I restarted or not. I was able to get into the game the 2nd try.

Yeah XBL is down right now....I tried to get into my bowl game and couldn't.

[Solidice]

Maryland finishes their 12-2 dream season with an Orange Bowl victory over Texas 27-21.

Jamaar Robinson was named player of the game, going 12/17 176 yards 2 TDs. Davin Meggett had 17 carries 113 yards 1 TD. Torrey Smith 6 catches for 69 yards 1 TD, Ronnie Tyler 4 catches 81 yards 1 TD.

Davin Meggett finish his senior season with a 1,608 yard 18 TD season(2,304 yards, 23 TD in career). Torrey Smith lead the WRs with 71 catches 924 yards 8 TDs(1,806 yards 15 TD in career). DE Derek Drummond will end his career with 40 QB sacks in 2 seasons. Jamaar Robinson will finish with 4,973 passing yards 34 TDs 18 Ints in his career.

[AustinWolv]

After choking in their last regular season game, UM dominates Oregon in the Rose Bowl, 49-13. The Ducks tacked on their only TD of the game late in the 4th quarter after being swarmed under by UM's new defensive look all game.

Denard Robinson passed for 233+ yards and rushed for 101 yards, while young RB Fitz Toussaint added 101 yards on the ground. Roy Roundtree caught 3 passes, all resulting in TDs, for the Wolverines. The Wolverine defense collected 2 sacks during the game as well as a fumble return for a TD.
The Wolverines finished with 261 team rushing yards and no turnovers, while holding LaMichael James to just 30 rushing yards.

Michigan finishes with 1 loss on the season.

[HawkFan]

Northwestern ends their season on a high note beating a team that defeated them in week one of the regular season 34-24 in the Capital One Bowl. Defense was the name of the game for the Wildcats as they were able to scoop two fumbles and return them for touchdowns and then in the second half get their offense going as they pulled away late in the fourth quarter.

Northwestern finishes the season with an 11-2 record and a probable top 10 ranking.

All teams have played and we are ready to advance.

[JBHuskers]

I'll advance when I get home from work tonight. 24 hour strict deadlines for the rest of the offseason will start with tonight's advancement.

[HawkFan]

Awesome. Can not wait to get next season going.

[JBHuskers]

FYI Romo was fired from Alabama.

Subsequently, Arkansas was quick to hire him. He will take over during the post-season recruiting period.

[Chase]

Fun first year, you guys have a good group together. Really appreciate you guys letting me join. Looking forward to next season

[HawkFan]

FYI Romo was fired from Alabama.

Subsequently, Arkansas was quick to hire him. He will take over during the post-season recruiting period.

Damn, I kind of feel bad right now since he lost to me in the bowl. :)

[JBHuskers]

Damn, I kind of feel bad right now since he lost to me in the bowl. :)

:D

[JBHuskers]

I'm going to aim to advance at 5PM or 6PM central every night during the offseason. Of course if someone notices their last and are done, feel free to post.

[JBHuskers]

Advanced to Players Leaving....deadline between 5 and 6 central tomorrow.

[Solidice]

one of my MLB wanted to go pro, but I got him to stay with 40 minutes. his family thought it'll be best to stay for his senior year.

[AustinWolv]

Losing 13 seniors, but only two JRs wanted to go pro and convinced them both to stay.

[HawkFan]

Lost 21 seniors and my starting tailback wanted to leave but I convinced him to stay with 2 hours of talking.

[Chase]

Kentucky Rebuilding Process Set Back by Surprise Departure

saidaidha. So out of no where my starting QB (Morgan Newton) decided to go pro. Spent an hour on him and it was over. Can't emphasize this loss enough, anyone who played me this year understands (ability to turn a sack into a first down, extending the play, opening up the whole multiple playbook). With no clear-cut successor, training camp now becomes the key to my off-season.

Just in shock because even though he was a big playmaker in my offense, he didn't really have that great of a year (too many numbers went to Cobb). No awards, no-show on the SEC-teams at the end of the year. He's an 83 overall. He was going to be the foundation of next years offense. UGH

EDIT: think I forgot to set ready to advance, but I'm good

[JBHuskers]

I was able to talk the 99 OVR DT Fortson to stay at Miami, but some 80 OVR CB wouldn't listen to me, thankfully he didn't beat around the bush and said he's leaving after my first 60 mins of trying.

[cdj]

Had two mid-80s rated players wanting to go early, a LB and my starting RB David Wilson. I just sunk 60 minutes into each and both will be returning. Wilson started the season #2 on the depth chart, but just made more plays when he was in and earned the starting job over the course of the season. The previous starter is now the back-up and is good enough (rated about equal with Wilson) to gash a defense when he comes in rested during the course of a game.

[JBHuskers]

My bad....I fell asleep before dart league, so I didn't get it advanced.

[HawkFan]

week 1 recruiting done.

[JBHuskers]

I will advance when I get home....5:30/6:00 ish

[Chase]

I guess I went a little too conservative with recruiting (underestimated a 2star caliber in the SEC). already got my 25 commits. ill try to set ready to advance every wk, but if not dont wait on me

[JBHuskers]

I guess I went a little too conservative with recruiting (underestimated a 2star caliber in the SEC). already got my 25 commits. ill try to set ready to advance every wk, but if not dont wait on me

No prob, I will advance regardless every evening...speaking of which I will do so here in a couple minutes.

[HawkFan]

Northwestern week 2 recruiting done.

[Solidice]

I'm still outside the top 25 in recruiting ranks, but I am a 5* school now.

4 4*, 10 3*, and 2 1* (FB and K)

I may get 1 more 4* player. my week 2 is done.

[cdj]

The EA servers were down this morning. I'll be gone most of the afternoon and evening, but I'll try again this morning. If they are still down then, we may need to extend the deadline a few hours to make up for lost time with EA servers down.

EDIT - And now they are back up. Recruiting finished for this week.

[HawkFan]

Northwestern recruiting done.

the dynasty wire servers are down once again.

[Solidice]

I know it's only Buffalo, but I managed to take away 322 points in 1 call with a 3* WR. probably wont be enough for me to get him, although it'll probably mean that WR will go to Rice instead of Buffalo. lol

[JBHuskers]

Slipped my mind last night before I left....will advance when I get home from work.

[JBHuskers]

I have advanced to week 4 of recruiting and will advance again tomorrow....I want to get to the start of the season by x-mas eve (Friday)

[HawkFan]

After recruiting all we have is position changes right? I mean it's fun to look at how much your guys improved and I am all for it, but it's not incredibly necessary.

[lilheavy]

I'm done with offseason recruiting. Waiting for position changes.

[JBHuskers]

EA Servers are down...will try later

[Solidice]

4* DT Jared Hines finally hard committed to Maryland. that will likely be the last recruit I get. that will put me at 70 people I believe as well, so I probably wont need to cut anyone.

I have 3 3* WRs still on my board but they are all soft committed to other teams at the moment.

[JBHuskers]

I maxed out my recruits....currently 3rd in the nation with

3 - [5star]
5 - [4star]
16 - [3star]

[xRomo9]

I have 3 [4star]:P
8 [3star]
3 [1star]

Pig Sue WEEEEE!!! lol
:P:Arkansas::Arkansas:

[xRomo9]

Guys I'm going to try and be more active around here :)

[AustinWolv]

I couldn't get on last night, as I got home pretty late. Will get on ASAP today to see where things are at.

[JBHuskers]

Guys I'm going to try and be more active around here :)

Awesome!

I will advance when I get home from work.

[JBHuskers]

We are now at position changes....I will advance tomorrow night between 5 and 6 central.

[HawkFan]

Position changes done for Northwestern.

[JBHuskers]

The plan will be to get to the preseason tonight, and start the season on Monday.

[Solidice]

looks like a few of those JUCOs I got will end up starting next season. a few are in the mid 80s in ovr. one was even my third best player on my team(pre-training at least)

[Chase]

Done with position changes. My recruiting class was turribal, the star recruit was a 70ovr DE (best by far too..)

[JBHuskers]

I got a [4star] ATH which turns out to be an 81 OLB, a position I need. I can't remember if he was a JUCO or not though. I may redshirt him as there is a senior at ROLB.

[HawkFan]

Yeah I got a TE that was a 79 overall but would still be my 3rd TE on the dpeth chart so I moved him to FB as a 74 and he will be starting right away. I also got a couple of JUCO guys that will be starting on defense right away at OLB and CB. Small class but pleasantly good.

[JBHuskers]

I have advanced to cut players (I have to cut 13 :D) we will advance again tomorrow between 5 and 6.

[JBHuskers]

We've advanced to the preseason, and will advance on Tuesday night.

[JBHuskers]

I'm going to do my preseason stuff tonight, and will get the new sliders set up too. Just a reminder we'll be advancing tomorrow night when I get home from work.

[xMrHitStickx904]

any open spots?

[JBHuskers]

any open spots?

If you want to pick a Big Ten school, we can let you in as long as nobody in the Big Ten minds an extra user game on their schedule?

[HawkFan]

As a Big Ten team I would not mind playing four user games. The more the better in my mind.

[JBHuskers]

any open spots?

Go ahead and post your team in here and let me know you're ready to go and I will send you an invite....

[AustinWolv]

As a Big Ten team I would not mind playing four user games. The more the better in my mind.

Can't say I agree with that, given personally that I can't often play until after 9pmCST, which doesn't work for some people in past seasons. Harder to schedule human games than CPU games obviously which slows up the whole dynasty.

Other than that, no problem with adding another to the B10.

[Chase]

Good looking on my schedule this year JB. Everybody's schedules look legit (like the VT-Pitt matchup), its gonna be fun to see how this season plays out.

[HawkFan]

Can't say I agree with that, given personally that I can't often play until after 9pmCST, which doesn't work for some people in past seasons. Harder to schedule human games than CPU games obviously which slows up the whole dynasty.

Other than that, no problem with adding another to the B10.

I mainly said that because the past two years I have had one user game each year because of people dropping out of the dynasty and such. What happened with you and I last season was regrettable but I do not see that happening again, it was just a bad time for me to try and schedule games against people.

I guess what I am trying to say is I would be willing to play four this year to have one more person in the Big Ten. After we get one more Big Ten member I seriously think that should be enough people in the dynasty as three user games a year and nine users seems just about right.

[HawkFan]

Good looking on my schedule this year JB. Everybody's schedules look legit (like the VT-Pitt matchup), its gonna be fun to see how this season plays out.

Totally agree, it does seem the schedules are very balanced and everyone should have a little harder tome running the table and making a run at the national title.

[JBHuskers]

Good looking on my schedule this year JB. Everybody's schedules look legit (like the VT-Pitt matchup), its gonna be fun to see how this season plays out.

Thank you sir!

[JBHuskers]

Totally agree, it does seem the schedules are very balanced and everyone should have a little harder tome running the table and making a run at the national title.

Yeah the first thing I do is take out the FCS games, then just go with the base of an A- SoS. I think only Kentucky, maybe Maryland were the only ones I had to beef up. If you were already beefed up but had an FCS school, I just put in a cupcake (for example, I gave Austin UNLV in week one). Amazingly, it was less of a pain this season to get everyone at 3 user games each...last season I had to do a lot more tinkering :D

[AustinWolv]

I mainly said that because the past two years I have had one user game each year because of people dropping out of the dynasty and such. What happened with you and I last season was regrettable but I do not see that happening again, it was just a bad time for me to try and schedule games against people.

I guess what I am trying to say is I would be willing to play four this year to have one more person in the Big Ten. After we get one more Big Ten member I seriously think that should be enough people in the dynasty as three user games a year and nine users seems just about right.

Yeah, I'm fine with playing the human games as long as they can play and we can find a time. Not holding any one person to blame or anything, just had the same experience as you for the past two seasons.......people dropped out, people couldn't play or didn't try very hard to schedule a time to play......so after a couple times of that, CPU games are just easier to fit in.
Anyway, no big deal to add one and need people in the dynasty as it is.

[JBHuskers]

Well I'm still waiting for him to post back....so until then we don't have to worry about it.

[HawkFan]

With everything that's been said I want to say like I told CDJ after our game that this dynasty is by far the best online experience I have had with NCAA for a long time. Before this dynasty I had pretty much given up on online play except with my brothers. Love playing against and in the same dynasty with you guys and look forward to continuing this for a long time to come.

[Chase]

Agree 100%. I've been having fun since my tryout game with Hawk. You guys got a great group and I'm glad you let me join in

[AustinWolv]

FYI, I had to play the game twice. Won the first time, but after the game ended, it was trying to load back to the dynasty central main screen and just hung there for ages without loading......so I exited the game completely and the week's game didn't record, so I had to play it again. And won again.

[lilheavy]

FYI, I had to play the game twice. Won the first time, but after the game ended, it was trying to load back to the dynasty central main screen and just hung there for ages without loading......so I exited the game completely and the week's game didn't record, so I had to play it again. And won again.

Hopefully the dynasty isn't screwed up. The other day when I went to the OD tab it showed that I was in a OD that Romo created, I never joined a OD made by Romo and I'm pretty sure he didn't created one. This happened to another OD that i'm in and we had to restart it because the file got corrupted. The other thing i'm noticing on the OD's tab is that it isn't showing my score for this week in our OD....



Unfortunately I just confirmed it with the commish from my other dynasty. What happened is one of the users tried to save the OD to an offline OD to get practice. When he did this it created another OD in his name, which wasn't his intention, but this caused the OD to start doing weird stuff and we had to start it over. I guess we will find out when it is advanced...

Romo did you try this or something similar?

[JBHuskers]

The dynasty file is screwed up....does anyone have the dynasty saved from week 2? Go to file management and load it, it should spawn into the OD, and some invites may need to be sent....then you can transfer the commish duties over to me...if not. CDJ has a save file from week 1 and we can just restart week one.

[Chase]

I'll check when I get home, about 1130 est

[JeffHCross]

Unfortunately I just confirmed it with the commish from my other dynasty. What happened is one of the users tried to save the OD to an offline OD to get practice. When he did this it created another OD in his name, which wasn't his intention, but this caused the OD to start doing weird stuff and we had to start it over. I guess we will find out when it is advanced...Interesting. The same thing happened with the Powerhouse dynasty here. Another member tried to create another copy of the OD so he could go into practice mode (apparently practice mode had been corrupted for him in our OD), and when he did that the dynasty messed up, quickly.

Strange thing is that the game specifically says that it will create another dynasty in your name (the person creating it), but no one else will be in the OD. In our case, it appeared that about half the OD was automatically part of the new OD. Sounds like the same happened to you.

[JBHuskers]

I'll check when I get home, about 1130 est

cool, no rush....worse case is we just restart from week one, so we're in okay shape regardless....

[Chase]

I got it. can't give commish to JB though. and only hawk and heavy are also in it. sending invites now tho

[HawkFan]

Okay so I might have encountered a problem with this. I get on last night, log into the dynasty with Chase as the commish because it won't let me log into the old one. I see I have to play my game again so I do. Then I get done with my game and I go to recruiting and it says that I have no time left. Looking over the recruiting it does not appear that any of the stuff I did in week two actually occurred, I say this because there are certain guys that I offered scholarships to that do not have an offer as of right now, along with two guys that I set visits for and they do not have visits schedules. I know all of this because after last years struggle with recruiting I have been writing everything down when it comes to recruiting and keep very close track of everything.

Just thought you should know, has anyone else seen this?

[Chase]

I had to redo my recruiting. I think it will be okay if I boot you out of the OD and re-invite you, but youll have to play your game for a third time..

[HawkFan]

I had to redo my recruiting. I think it will be okay if I boot you out of the OD and re-invite you, but youll have to play your game for a third time..

But if you do this I should be good to do my recruiting for the week and not lose anything I did like I am right now?

[JBHuskers]

I'm going to accept my invite now...so when you can go ahead and transfer the commish.

[JBHuskers]

I didn't need to get an invite I guess? I dunno the OD just showed up automatically....we just need Romo, CDJ, and Austin. I do need the commish duties transferred though.

[JBHuskers]

My recruiting says is done....I just need to play my game, which is the way it was when I last was one...I'm guessing it depended on when Chase did his stuff last?

Well a BIG thanks to Chase, and now I know to save my file from here on out.

[AustinWolv]

I'll be on later tonight. I always save my file. Hopefully my recruiting didn't get screwed up. And the game results were saved.

[Chase]

@JB I tried transferring commish to you last night, but it only gave me the option of hawk and heavy (you were the only 3 in the od, for whatever reason). I figured you had maxed out your OD slots or something. I'll try again in a sec.

@Hawk since you and JB say both your recruiting is done.. i just assume everyone who was still in the od when i loaded it has their recruiting already done. i dunno if you quit and re-joined it'd set your recruiting hours back to 10. just seemed logical to me, but i dont want you to do and have to re-play for nothing.

[HawkFan]

Nah just leave me in it and I will roll with it. I am assuming I can delete the other two copies of the dynasty from my online dynasty section.

[HawkFan]

We may end up having to boot me and re invite me anyway. Every time I try to log in to the dynasty I get "database error" and it won't let me go any further. So go ahead and boot me and resend an invite and I will accept and see if that helps.

[JBHuskers]

We may end up having to boot me and re invite me anyway. Every time I try to log in to the dynasty I get "database error" and it won't let me go any further. So go ahead and boot me and resend an invite and I will accept and see if that helps.

You're going into TGTOD2? The database error should only be on the first OD....

[JBHuskers]

@JB I tried transferring commish to you last night, but it only gave me the option of hawk and heavy (you were the only 3 in the od, for whatever reason). I figured you had maxed out your OD slots or something. I'll try again in a sec.



Yeah I did finish my recruiting for this week, so that is right...I hadn't played my game yet. I will try to delete the first OD and then let me know. Thanks man!

[HawkFan]

You're going into TGTOD2? The database error should only be on the first OD....

Let me try it out right now.

[JBHuskers]

I am listed as the commish now so that got transferred fine....

I recruited and it shows i have no time left, but the icons show like I didn't call them. I hope that is just a formality and I don't lose out in a week of recruiting....I think it recorded it but the icons are wrong....I'm guessing this is the same thing HawkFan saw....

[JBHuskers]

Also Austinwolv and Romo have invites out and they're the only two that need to join.

[HawkFan]

Nevermind I was trying to load the wrong one. I got right in this time.

[HawkFan]

I am listed as the commish now so that got transferred fine....

I recruited and it shows i have no time left, but the icons show like I didn't call them. I hope that is just a formality and I don't lose out in a week of recruiting....I think it recorded it but the icons are wrong....I'm guessing this is the same thing HawkFan saw....

You are exactly right that's what I see on my end as well. I hope we don't lose a week of recruiting but if we do, we do. I am sure we can make up for it in the long run.

[JBHuskers]

You are exactly right that's what I see on my end as well. I hope we don't lose a week of recruiting but if we do, we do. I am sure we can make up for it in the long run.

I know I recruited so I'm guessing it recorded it ... if not, no biggie.