Chapter 3 - Building a Dynasty
NCAA Football 2004’s dynasty mode allows you to take control of a team over multiple seasons. You’ll have to maintain good relations with your fans (who will likely want your coach’s neck after any tough losses to a hated rival!) and keep your team’s prestige up (or increase it, as the case may be) in order to attract the best recruits to fill those holes in your offense and defense created by graduating seniors and skilled underclassmen who choose to leave early for big money in the National Football League.
But before you go off recruiting, you must first survive your first season as head coach. Naturally, you should use the offensive and defensive tips later in this guide to mold your team into a contender. It’s a long season and to win your conference and qualify for a bowl game, you must keep star players healthy. Running up the score is certainly fun but you wouldn’t want to risk the health of your star running back. Sub out players with the game in hand to avoid catastrophic, season-ending injuries that can turn a promising season into a disaster.
After, hopefully, a successful season, it’s time to enter the off-season. Depending on the season’s results, your prestige may have risen or dropped. This will have a large impact on your recruiting success. Schools with higher prestige ratings naturally attract the best recruits. That doesn’t mean that a lower prestige can’t get a quality player. But don’t expect a school with a 3-star prestige rating to attract the best blue chip athletes!
Once you’ve entered the off-season, check all the award winners and stats you wish then head into the off-season schedule. The first task is to learn which of your big name stars have decided to forgo their education for the National Football League--or perhaps they simply graduated! Go into step one, which moves into a list of which players are leaving the school. It also includes their overall statistics. If you wish, you can cycle through other teams to see how they fared or sort your lists by position.
Continue on to recruiting when you’re finished. Those players will be removed from your team’s roster. Next you’re taken to the recruiting central screen. Select the team overview to see your current roster, grades, and needs. Obviously it’s most important to fill your needs with as much talent as possible but it’s also important to get talent for future seasons at positions that are likely to have holes in the coming year.
Now you can check the recruiting reports to see specific recruits from each state, all recruits, and just those recruits that have listed your school in their top three choices. When you select a recruit, you’re presented with several choices on how to handle the recruit. The first four options cost points and you only have a certain amount of points to allocate to recruiting so it’s important to spend them wisely. The number of points required for each option depends on how far away you attempt to recruit from your home state (for instance, if you’re in Florida it will cost a lot of points to recruit a California athlete). The amount of points you have depends on your team and coach’s prestige. The second option is the pitch: how are you going to sell your school to the recruit? You can say how great the program is and pitch its prestige, talk up the location, promise playing time, or emphasize your coaching style.
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