by NCAAhoops » Fri Feb 28, 2025 9:48 pm
Just want post a few things the mod does currently. I know the mod in the first year of play will probably have more coaches move around. The reason for this is there are a lot of older coaches in the game as the mod has real coaches with real ages. The game retires coaches at about 66 years of age. There are quite a few coaches over that age such as Rick Barnes at Tennessee which was one of the teams you mentioned. I'm sure he retired as he is 70 years old, as would quite a few more over 66 years old.
I just checked Mark Pope and believe his Ambition is too high so that's why he left and I think the way I have some of that setup is because he moved from BYU to Kentucky and that triggered his rating to change jobs jumped up. Hoiberg has medium setting to change teams so I'm not sure but why he would move much but Texas A&M would be a move up. I do believe the second year it will settle down to a more normal pace as those older coaches will have retired and new younger ones will replace them.
Form what you are seeing I will look at those settings much more closely the next few days and will be updated in the next update as Pope isn't going anywhere as he has his dream job right now, unless he gets fired of course. We only had a bout 1 day testing before First Release came out so I expect to have a few issues to iron out. I understand about what you are saying about assistants getting some of those jobs. I think the game only hires the best coach it can find at top tier schools and not sure how to change that as it occurs with or without the mod, but I did set Potentials higher for top assistants and that might help some, but again further testing would need to be done to go several seasons in to know if it does or not.
If you see anything helpful for me to look at please provide feedback as I will work on guys like Pope who should stay where they are. The age thing the only way to fix that in the mod would be use lower fake ages. But some of the other coaches I can look at and tone down accordingly. Coaches in real life that have not moved for years are already low movement in the Mod, it's the ones that have moved recently are I suspect are the issue.