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how bout replacing erin andrews with samantha steele?
Assuming you're responding to the "homework" comment, no. While I haven't caught any of her games this year, last year I was extremely impressed by the information she passed on from the sidelines, and thought it was much better than most of the other sideline reporters ESPN has.
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when viewing highlights from your game, you have the option to watch a certain play from the various camera angles......they need an additional one, like a blimp cam or something similar. this would really help in identifying problems that certain players on the field are having. pretty much, it'd function exactly like the "wire" camera angle, just be way further back and higher up off of the ground.
it'd also be cool if we could save highlights from any point within the stadium (camera wont move once play has started). additionally, it'd be nice if we could choose an option to focus on a certain player in the replays, instead of just always following the ball.
You probably won't be able to replicate the true emotion of the moment from the announcers (I wish they could take real in game audio and add it) like you can in real life, but if the crowd were on point it would boost the emotional value of what they do have. More importantly, no matter how good the audio is, if the crowd noise ISN'T up to par it's going to take away from the moment.
As for the home field advantage, there are 3 things that really play into home field in college. The first is the play on the anxiety of the road team, especially younger players that haven't been in the atmosphere very much. Some kids respond and others can crumble under the added pressure but there's no way to replicate this in game without adding importance to the awareness rating and making it more prevalent for assignments in road games and in big situations. The second is the play on the emotion and adrenaline of the home team players, also tough to replicate. But the third and only thing that you CAN easily replicate is a split second of advantage for the defensive line, where they are watching the ball and the offensive line is reactive due to the fact that they cannot hear when the crowd is going crazy.
THIS is where the difference of HFA and Top 20 stadiums should be felt. In games that are even remotely close or have the home team in the lead at all times should have Aggressive D-line for the home team always on, specifically on 3rd down. This, along with low awareness players making mistakes on the road in these situations would replicate HFA well IMO.
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