{"id":266,"date":"2005-08-18T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-18T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T13:09:07","slug":"ncaa-2006-bitterness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/08\/18\/ncaa-2006-bitterness\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA 2006 Bitterness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is sometimes funny.  I will go for long stretches of time, not worrying about the \u201clittle things\u201d in a game that used to bother me.  Now that I am a borderline mass-market gamer, I just want to have fun with my gaming experiences.  Then other times (such as last night) I revert back to my previous life of a jaded sports gaming bastard.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have complained enough about QB sacks for the last 3-4 years that no one much cares about me complaining yet again \u2013 but that is what I do best!  So here goes \u2026  I am sick and tired of getting my ass handed to me in the form of a sack when my QA is tackled (or hit) by a CPU defender mid-throw.  It is so damn frustrating to watch my CPU tuck the ball back in and take a sack even if he has gone through three-fourths of his throwing motion.  I could live with this (maybe) if the game was fair about it and also sacked the CPU QBs, but no, that would be too damn easy.<\/p>\n<p>Last night this happened several times (North Texas vs. Florida Atlantic); one time the impact rated QA for Florida Atlantic completed some sort of crazy 180-degree behind the back, underarm pass.  No kidding, I was in the process of sacking the CPU\u2019s impact QB, who\u2019s back happened to be facing away from the line of scrimmage; when all of a sudden, the QB flipped the ball 10-yards forward to a WR.  Wow!  That sort of stuff does not make my day.  In fact, when I have not had any gaming time for about a week, it really sort of spoils the experience.  I thought I had moved passed this already, but old habits die hard.<\/p>\n<p>Another annoyance is that North Texas\u2019s schedule is messed up.  I finished up my schedule against Florida Atlantic on the road, but \u201cin real life\u201d North Texas\u2019s last game of the year is in Denton hosting Arkansas State.  I am not sure when it happened (maybe the schedule changed after the game was released), but the October 1 game with Troy was moved to Tuesday night \u2013 October 4 \u2013 on ESPN2, while the Arkansas state was moved to the end of the year  Minor squabble, and to be fair, maybe not the fault of EA Sports.  I was already jawed up, but I am happy to get to watch the Mean Green on TV!<\/p>\n<p>At the end of my first season I was ranked 32nd in the country; a health 10-1 record, with the only blemish being a beating at the hands of LSU.  My next game is the New Orleans bowl vs. the Zips from Akron (6-5).  I am now ranked #20 in the country.  I guess this mimics real life; sit back and do nothing for several weeks and watch your rankings climb!  The whole Top 25 pole system in NCAA 2006 needs to be improved for next year.<\/p>\n<p>I do still like the game, but sometimes the little things get me down.  Hopefully I will have time to play and get over it tonight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is sometimes funny. I will go for long stretches of time, not worrying about the \u201clittle things\u201d in a game that used to bother me. Now that I am a borderline mass-market gamer, I just want to have fun with my gaming experiences. Then other times (such as last night) I revert back to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/08\/18\/ncaa-2006-bitterness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA 2006 Bitterness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}