NCAA Football 12: What Will Boston College's Roster Look Like?
by A.J Black on Jul 11, 2011 3:00 PM EDT
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For gaming nerds like myself, there are unofficial holidays that you non-basement dwellers don't know about it.
There are the yearly gatherings of people outside of Best Buy to buy the newest installment of Madden. There are those of us that are almost brought to tears when they see the new Gears of War commercial. Finally for those of us who love college sports, we pre-order NCAA Football and spend the rest of the summer mashing buttons while the rest of you go outside and "get sun" and "stay healthy." I always play as Boston College -- big surprise -- and one of the most frustrating parts of the game is that without fail the Eagles always have terrible ratings.
Let's take a look at this year's ratings for the Eagles:
| Offense | Defense / Specialists | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Position | Rating | Player | Position | Rating |
| Montel Harris | RB | 92 | Luke Kuechly | LB | 97 |
| Emmett Cleary | OT | 86 | Kevin Pierre-Louis | LB | 89 |
| Nathan Richman | OG | 85 | Donnie Fletcher | CB | 86 |
| Mark Spinney | C | 84 | Kaleb Ramsey | DT | 84 |
| Chris Pantale | TE | 84 | Jim Noel | SS | 83 |
| Andre Williams | RB | 83 | Max Holloway | DT | 83 |
| Bobby Swigert | WR | 82 | Okechukwu Okoroha | FS | 82 |
| Bryan Davis | OG | 82 | Ryan Quigley | P | 82 |
| John Wetzel | OT | 80 | Nate Freese | K | 82 |
| Chase Rettig | QB | 78 | Steele Divitto | LB | 81 |
| Alex Amidon | WR | 77 | Nick Clancy | LB | 79 |
| Rolandan Finch | RB | 77 | Dominick LeGrande | CB | 79 |
| Clyde Lee | WR | 77 | Dillon Quinn | DT | 78 |
| Tahj Kimble | RB | 77 | Dominique Williams | CB | 78 |
| Johnathan Coleman | WR | 77 | Conor O'Neal | DT | 77 |
| Alex Foxen | FB | 76 | Kasim Edebali | DE | 76 |
| Ian White | OG | 74 | A.J. Currelley | CB | 75 |
| Lars Anderson | TE | 74 | Will Thompson | LB | 74 |
| Dave Shinskie | QB | 73 | Jake Sinkovec | LB | 73 |
| Mike Marscovetra | QB | 73 | |||
| Aaron Kramer | OT | 70 | |||
| Josh Bordner | QB | 62 | |||
Just as a note, I found these rankings through EA Sports' Team Builder, which at points got tedious and confusing. Therefore in the interest of my sanity I did not do the entire roster, only those players we may hear from this year. Also pairing freshman players and their numbers was like sorting tax code, so I only did a few. Here are a few interesting notes:
- As predicted we our ratings are top heavy on linebackers and OT, and surprise our two highest offensive skill players are running backs.
- EA doesn't think very much about either Chase Rettig or Dave Shinskie. Rettig is up considerably from last year (63), but Dave Shinskie is much lower than last year (81). I would hazard a guess that Rettig's rating is the lowest for a starting QB in the ACC in this game.
- Montel Harris is only a 92? That seems a little low for the leading rusher in the ACC.
- Luke Kuechly at a 97 seems about right. The BC homer in me says he should be a 99, but I can't imagine there are many perfect players in college football right now.
- Albert Louis Jean, who by most accounts is BC's most touted recruit, doesn't appear to be in the game. And don't plan on building around a freshman QB because Christian Suntrip isn't in the game either.
- Colin Larmond Jr. was only a 67, lower than all WR's on BC other than Donte Elliott. Knee injury aside, he is going to be a bigger factor for BC than EA is giving him credit for.
Those are just some of my thoughts. Any of these ratings surprise you? Do you think they are accurate? What would you change?
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Maybe EA knows something we don't ...
But I’m not sure there’s that much separation among the four QB candidates:
Rettig 78
Shinskie 73
Marscovetra 73
Bordner 62
I buy Bordner’s rating but Shinskie and Marsco the same rating? Both 5 points lower than Rettig?
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Bordner
is not in the game. That’s Suntrup.
Go to the Team Builder and look at “luvtotha9’s” roster.
Most amusing EA goof-up… Momah as CB.
My B
As I said before sorting out names and numbers was kind of tedious. I totally missed that Momah thing!
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Where the team gets screwed in the game
is the defensive unit. As individuals, that’s a pretty uninspiring list of players (only 10 above 80, 1 above 90). But as a unit, they have proven that they are pretty top-notch.
Understand EA can’t do too much about that, but I think they should inflate the ratings if they have to. But that might make the defense better than an SEC team and that’s inexcusable!!!
Looks like Montel Harris will be my go to guy in this game for the Eagles.
For Horton
by TheSpecialOne on Jul 11, 2011 3:43 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Am I the only guy
Who says screw it, throws out BC’s boring playbook, turns on the Florida Option heavy playbook and calls end arounds with Clyde Lee, and options with Harris/Rettig?
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My Gamer tag is footer20dowork for ps3 and I used teambuilder to make BC. I changed everything up a bit to include Suntrup (73 ovr), ALJ (79), Steven Daniels (79) Brian Miller (73) and so on. Kuechly is 99, Montel 93, Andre williams 88, KPL (91), Chase (85) Swigert (85) Larmond (81) Kaleb ramsey (86). The team is pretty solid but not too great so I thiink it would be fun to build this team up from an average ACC team. You can also check out my 2007 Eagles for NCAA 12 under the same gamer tag.
I too only play as BC (ONLY LIONS FAN on xbox), but it does get tiring when every other online gamer you go up against is only choosing, Florida, Georgia, USC or Ohio State. I’ve been lit up a number of times, and it’s like, “hey my team is rated a B- and you’re rolling with an A+, come on now”. I thought that the years BC went to the ACCCG, EA might make us better than usual. No dice:(
by chicagofire1871 on Jul 11, 2011 6:33 PM EDT reply actions
Nope
They’ll never give BC any credit… the good news is that by October there are usually some really good downloadable rosters that take into account how the season has been going. Hopefully BC will jump fast… just for solid ratings in the new rosters. – SixtySixAdams on Xbox
by JohnQPublicSchool on Jul 12, 2011 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions
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