NCAA 2k6

[kramer]

It will be here before you know it. Here's a clip from the article on the website below

 

NCAA Football 2006

 

Once you're on campus, NCAA 2006's race for the Heisman mode will introduce you to what nearly every college freshman becomes extremely familiar with: the dorm room. Just like most frosh dorms, this one will be probably a bit too small and a bit too messy. All the amenities will be there, however, so you'll have a computer for checking your team and individual statistics, a magazine stack (just in case your face shows up in the weekly sports rags), a calendar and game schedule so you can keep track of important dates, launch practice sessions and upcoming games, and a trophy case where you can bask in the metallic glory of your achievements. There will even be perks such as fan letters, written by the slightly crazed but usually well-meaning college football freaks who follow your career, and a picture of your girlfriend. While EA was a bit vague on the details of how the girlfriend portraits will work

[hoyamannn]

The only thing more exciting than the Huskers starting in the fall is this game coming out! I can't wait.

[Pedro Guerrero]

When is the release date?

[Red November]

It seems more like the SIMS or something, your controlling this person's life. DAting on a football game?

[kramer]

Here is a segment from the producer interview. This looks Awesome!

Tom Vuong: For NCAA Football 06, we really focused on the most popular aspect of Dynasty Mode, which is recruiting. Now, in addition to the current off-season recruiting, users will be able to recruit high school prospects during the regular football season as well. We really wanted to introduce the concept of targeting prospects in the summer, inviting them to campus for official visits in the fall, and then getting verbal commitments based on how well their visits went.

 

We now also have soft verbals, which are prospects who have committed to your school, but are still looking at other schools. So as a coach, you will have to continue to pursue these guys until you're sure they are committed to your program. So the in-season recruiting experience, although familiar, is a totally new game-within-a-game for our dedicated fans. All of this is packaged neatly in our Rivals.com Recruiting feature, which will bring you news and prospect interest movements in the form of headlines of the popular online recruiting service.

 

For off-season recruiting, we've totally revamped the user experience as well. We've added your school's academic reputation as a factor in dynasty and during recruiting. Now prospects will look at your school based on your academic prestige in terms of program and in terms of graduating players. The flipside of that is that recruiting players on talent alone may affect your school's academic prestige.

 

Another great addition is the ability to build pipelines when recruiting. Now having success in a particular area will lead to better success recruiting that area in the future. With these elements, coupled with players that do not qualify based on grades, users will have to totally change up their strategy when recruitingeasportseasports

[Eric the Red]

All of this is packaged neatly in our Rivals.com Recruiting feature, which will bring you news and prospect interest movements in the form of headlines of the popular online recruiting service.

 

It was only a matter of time until this was going to happen. Unique game.

[joshuavacek]

I love the sound of the recruiting on that game. It is just like real life.

[Eric the Red]

EA Sports, Rivals.com team up on NCAA 06

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Chris Wallace

Rivals.com

 

The new recruiting aspects of Dynasty Mode are among the highlighted new features that will make for a better playing experience with NCAA Football 2006.

 

The biggest change to recruiting in the latest version of the game will be the addition of in-season recruiting. Users will now recruit high school prospects during the season, which will include official visits on the weekends of home games or bye weeks.

 

 

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The new Rivals.com Recruiting Board will allow users to monitor their top targets.

Users will begin to target players during the summer and then develop a recruiting strategy, determining the number of points they'd be willing to devote to each prospect. Bonus points will be awarded for having official visitors in for big home victories, with added points being awarded for a win against a major rival, helping users in their efforts to secure commitments from the top prospects.

 

Each prospect will start with interest in eight schools before limiting his list to five schools and then ultimately three. Prospects also can make "soft verbals" to schools, but then they still have the option to change their mind should they not continue to be actively recruited by that school.

 

As prospects begin limiting their choices, headlines reflecting those decisions will be generated, just as can be seen daily on Rivals.com throughout the year

 

"The in-season recruiting experience, although familiar, is a totally new game-within-a-game for our dedicated fans," Vuong said. "All of this is packaged neatly in our Rivals.com Recruiting feature."

 

Added Eddie Dorsey, NCAA Football 06 assistant producer, "It's very Rivalsesque. It allows those types of users who want to get in depth with it to do that. It's what you make of it."

 

Changes also have been made to offseason recruiting, where a school's academic reputation will play a factor in recruiting. Certain prospects will place a higher value on academics, making it difficult for some institutions to make the cut for those players' services.

 

Schools also run the risk of seeing their academic reputation slip if they only recruit the most talented players available, and there will be prospects who ultimately won't qualify academically. These are added features that make recruiting strategy a bigger part of the game.

 

Additionally, the ability to create recruiting pipelines has been established, enabling a school to increase its likelihood of recruiting success in areas where it has fared well in the past.

 

 

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The new recruiting pipeline feature will allow users to target areas in which they've enjoyed past recruiting success.

"We wanted to make it as in depth as possible for the guys like Eddie and I who read Rivals.com every day," Vuong said.

 

The process isn't the only aspect of recruiting that has changed for NCAA Football 06. In past years, there were tremendous numbers of highly rated prospects available to be recruited, but that too will be changing.

 

"We tried to base it on the Rivals100 (the organization's ranking of the nation's top 100 players) and limit the number of five-star and four-star players, like you would see on Rivals.com," Dorsey said. "We want it to feel like if you get a five-star player, it's really special."

[Red November]

Desmond Howard catches NCAA 06 cover

[hoyamannn]

When is the release date?

I think it's July 12?

 

Does that seem a bit early compared to prior years?

[Eric the Red]

I think last year was in late July. The early they can get it out more copis will be sold. People are so football deprived, they need anything.

[kramer]

I got this from maddenmania.com

 

QB:

Matt Leinart- USC (99 overall) 62 spd, 65 str, 98 awr

Omar Jacobs- Bowling Green (96 overall) 80 spd, 65 str, 84 awr

Vincent Young- Texas (95 overall) 90 spd, 65 str, 85 awr

Reggie McNeal- Texas A&M (95 overall) 86 spd, 62 str, 84 awr

Brad Smith- Missouri (95 overall) 86 spd, 62 str, 90 awr

Bruce Gradkowski- Toledo (94 overall) 65 spd, 59 str, 91 awr

* All Impact Players

 

RB:

Reggie Bush- USC (97 overall) 98 spd, 68 str, 86 awr

Adrian Peterson- Oklahoma (97 overall) 93 spd, 78 str, 82 awr

Deangelo Williams- Memphis (97 overall) 94 spd, 74 str, 90 awr

Laurence Maroney- Minnesota (94 overall) 95 spd, 72 str, 88 awr

DonTrell Moore- New Mexico (93 overall) 90 spd, 74 str, 88 awr

Chris Barclay- Wake Forest (92 overall) 92 spd, 65 str, 91 awr

* All Impact Players

 

FB:

Brian Leonard Rutgers (97 overall)

Quad Hill- Miami (95 overall)

Lawrence Vickers- Colorado (95 overall)

Matt Bernstein- Wisconsin (95 overall)

AJ Johnson-Iowa ? (95 overall)

Rashon Powers-Neal- Notre Dame (94 overall)

* Leonard and Vickers are the only Impact Players

 

WR:

Derek Hagan-Arizona State (94 overall)

Mike Haas- Oregon State (93 overall)

Greg Jennings- Western Michigan (93 overall)

Jarrett Hicks- Texas Tech (92 overall)

Calvin Johnson- Georgia Tech (92 overall)

Travis Wilson- Oklahoma(92 overall)

Santonio Holmes- Ohio State (92 overall)

Steve Breaston- Michigan (Maybe Martin Nance) (92 overall)

* All Impact Players

 

TE:

Marcedes Lewis- UCLA (97 overall)

Matt Herrian- Nebraska (96 overall)

Garret Mills- Tulsa (96 overall)

Jeff King- Virgina Tech (95 overall)

Dominque Byrd- USC (95 overall)

Tim Day- Oregon (95 overall)

* Lewis, Mills, and Herrian are the only Impact Players

 

OT:

D’Brickashaw Feguson- Virginia (98 overall)

Eric Winston- Miami (96 overall)

Andrew Whitworth- LSU (96 overall)

Davin Joseph- Oklahoma (95 overall)

Marcus McNeill- Auburn (94 overall)

Jon Scott- Texas (94 overall)

* No Impact Players

 

LG:

Max Jean-Gilles Georgia

Aaron Lips- Louisiana Tech

 

C:

Greg Eslinger- Minnesota (97 overall)

Mike Degory- Florida (96 overall)

Donovan Raiola- Wisconsin(94 overall)

Kyle Young- Fresno State (93 overall)

David Castillo- FSU (93 overall)

Ryan Cook-New Mexico(93 overall)

* No Impact Players

 

RG:

Ryan Harris- Notre Dame

Tyler Reed- Penn State

 

RT:

Aaron Brant- Iowa State

Ryan O'Callaghan- California

 

DE:

Mathias Kiwanuka- Boston College (99 overall)

Mario Williams- NC State (98 overall)

Eric Henderson- Georgia Tech (97 overall)

Manny Lawson- NC State (96 overall)

Darryl Tapp- Virginia Tech (95 overall)

Loren Howard- Northwestern(95 overall)

* All Impact Players

 

DT:

Rod Wright- Texas (97 overall)

Haloti Ngata- Oregon (96 overall)

Dusty Dvoracek- Oklahoma (96 overall)

Gabe Watson- Michigan (96 overall)

Kedric Golston- Georgia (95 overall)

Orien Harris- Miami (94 overall)

* Wright, Ngata, Dvoracek, and Golston are the only Impact Players

 

OLB:

A.J. Hawk- Ohio State (97 overall)

Chad Greenway- Iowa (97 overall)

Ernie Sims- Florida State (96 overall)

Pierre Woods- Michigan (95 overall)

A.J. Nicholson- Florida State (94 overall)

Bobby Carpenter- Ohio State (93 overall)

* All of the linebackers are Impact Players, except for Nicholson

 

MLB:

Ahmad Brooks- Virginia (97 overall)

Abdul Hodge- Iowa (97 overall)

Kevin Simon- Tennessee (95 overall)

Marvin Byrdsong- Miss. St. (95 overall)

Will Derting- Washington Sate (94 overall)

Spencer Havner- UCLA (93 overall)

* All Impact Players

 

CB:

Jimmy Williams- Virginia Tech (96 overall)

Will Blackmon- Boston College (96 overall)

Antonio Cromartie- FSU (94 overall)

Jason Allen- Tennessee (93 overall)

CB #3 (92 overall)(Charles Gordon - Kansas)

Antwan Allen- Iowa (92 overall)

* All of the cornerbacks are Impact Players, except for Allen

 

FS:

Ko Simpson- South Carolina (95 overall)

LaRon Landry- LSU (95 overall)

Jaxson Appel- Texas A&M (93 overall)

Pat Watkins- FSU (92 overall)

Corey Campbell- Tenn (91 overall)

Nate Salley- Ohio St. (91 overall)

Tom Zbikowski- Notre Dame (? overall)

* Simpson, Landry, and Appel are the only Impact Players

 

SS:

Donnie McCleskey- California (97 overall)

Darnell Bing- USC (96 overall)

Michael Huff- Texas (94 overall)

SS #20 (94 overall)(Daniel Bullocks - Nebraska)

Willie Andrews- Baylor (93 overall)

Jarrad Page- UCLA (92 overall)

* McCleskey, Bing, SS #20, and Andrews are the only Impact Players

 

Here are the top 25 stadiums

 

1.) Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (Florida)

2.) Kyle Field (Texas A&M)

3.) Neyland Stadium (Tennessee)

4.) Ohio Stadium (Ohio State)

5.) Lane Stadium (Virginia Tech)

6.) Tiger Stadium (LSU)

7.) Kinnick Stadium (Iowa)

8.) Sanford Stadium (Georgia)

9.) Memorial Stadium (Nebraska)

10.) Michigan Stadium (Michigan)

11.) Doak Campbell Stadium (Florida State)

12.) Gaylord-Oklahoma Memorial (Oklahoma)

13.) Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn)

14.) Camp Randall Stadium (Wisconsin)

15.) Autzen Stadium (Oregon)

16.) Notre Dame Stadium (Notre Dame)

17.) Beaver Stadium (Penn State)

18.) Mountaineer Field (West Virginia)

19.) Bryant-Denny Stadium (Alabama)

20.) Clemson Memorial Stadium (Clemson)

21.) KSU Stadium (Kansas State)

22.) Miami Stadium (Miami)

23.) Husky Stadium (Washington)

24.) Carrier Dome (Syracuse)

25.) Martin Stadium (Washington State)

[kramer]

Conference Team Overall Offense Defense

ACC Boston College B B- B+

ACC Clemson B B- B

ACC Duke C C C

ACC Florida State B+ B+ A-

ACC Georgia Tech B+ B A-

ACC Maryland B B- B+

ACC Miami A- B A

ACC North Carolina B- B- C+

ACC N.C. State B+ B A-

ACC Virginia B+ B B

ACC Virginia Tech B+ B A-

ACC Wake Forest B B B

Big East Cincinnati C C C-

Big East Connecticut B- C+ B-

Big East Louisville B B- B

Big East Pittsburgh B B B

Big East Rutgers B- C+ C+

Big East South Florida C+ C+ C+

Big East Syracuse B- C+ B

Big East West Virginia B- B- B-

Big Ten Illinois B- B- B-

Big Ten Indiana C C C

Big Ten Iowa A- B+ A+

Big Ten Michigan B+ B+ A-

Big Ten Michigan State B B- B

Big Ten Minnesota B+ B+ B

Big Ten Northwestern B B- B+

Big Ten Ohio State B+ B A+

Big Ten Penn State B B- B+

Big Ten Purdue B+ B B

Big Ten Wisconsin B B- B

Big Twelve Baylor C+ C C+

Big Twelve Colorado B+ B- B+

Big Twelve Iowa State B B- B

Big Twelve Kansas B- C+ B

Big Twelve Kansas State B B- B

Big Twelve Missouri B- B- B

Big Twelve Nebraska B+ B B+

Big Twelve Oklahoma B+ B A-

Big Twelve Oklahoma State B- C+ B-

Big Twelve Texas A- B+ A-

Big Twelve Texas A&M B+ B+ B+

Big Twelve Texas Tech B+ B B

CUSA Central Florida C C C-

CUSA East Carolina C+ C C+

CUSA Houston B- B- B-

CUSA Marshall C+ C B-

CUSA Memphis B- B- C+

CUSA Rice C- D C-

CUSA SMU C C- C+

CUSA Southern Miss B B- B

CUSA Tulane B- C+ B-

CUSA Tulsa B- B- B-

CUSA UAB B- B- C+

CUSA UTEP B B- B

Independent Army C C C-

Independent Navy C- C- C-

Independent Notre Dame B B+ B

Independent Temple C+ C C+

MAC Akron B- C+ C+

MAC Ball State C C C-

MAC Bowling Green B B B-

MAC Buffalo C+ C B-

MAC Central Michigan C C+ C-

MAC Eastern Michigan C+ C+ C

MAC Kent State C D+ C+

MAC Miami (Ohio) B- B- B-

MAC Northern Illinois B B- B

MAC Ohio C C- C

MAC Toledo B B B-

MAC Western Michigan B- B- C+

Mountain West Air Force C- C- C-

Mountain West BYU C C+ C-

Mountain West Colorado State B- C+ C+

Mountain West UNLV C+ C+ C+

Mountain West New Mexico B B C+

Mountain West San Diego State C+ C+ C+

Mountain West TCU B B B-

Mountain West Utah B B- B

Mountain West Wyoming B- B- B-

Pac Ten Arizona B- B- B-

Pac Ten Arizona State B B B

Pac Ten California B B- B+

Pac Ten Oregon B B+ B

Pac Ten Oregon State B B- B

Pac Ten Stanford B- B- B-

Pac Ten UCLA B+ B B+

Pac Ten USC A+ A+ A-

Pac Ten Washington B B- B

Pac Ten Washington State B B- B

SEC Alabama B+ B- A-

SEC Arkansas B- C+ C+

SEC Auburn B+ B A-

SEC Florida B+ B+ A-

SEC Georgia B+ B+ A-

SEC Kentucky C+ C+ C

SEC Louisiana State B+ B+ B+

SEC Mississippi B- B- B

SEC Mississippi State B- B- B-

SEC South Carolina B B- B+

SEC Tennessee A- B A+

SEC Vanderbilt B- B- C+

Sun Belt Arkansas State B- C C+

Sun Belt FAU C C- C

Sun Belt FIU B- C+ B-

Sun Belt Louisiana-Lafayette C C C-

Sun Belt Louisiana-Monroe C+ C+ C+

Sun Belt Middle Tennessee State B- C+ B-

Sun Belt North Texas B- C+ C+

Sun Belt Troy C C- C+

WAC Boise State B- B- B-

WAC Fresno State B- B- B

WAC Hawaii C C C

WAC Idaho C C C

WAC Louisiana Tech B- C B

WAC Nevada C+ C+ C+

WAC New Mexico State B- C+ B-

WAC San Jose State D D D

WAC Utah State C C- C+

[hoyamannn]

Wow, I just got back from the EA Sports web page, checked the discussion board, and talk about dorks. Someone asked when the release date is in a discussion forum and was just attacked for not knowing it comes out July 12. I wasn't sure so I checked again and thought it was a bit funny. I guess it would kind of be like one of those computer dorks coming here and seeing the passion we have for the Huskers, huh? Sorry if I offended any computer dorks.

[DaveH]

Sorry if I offended any computer dorks.

You better be........ jk