NCAA 14 Buffalo Bulls Dynasty - S2, One does not simply enter the Swamp

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No notable coaching changes this offseason.

DC Brian Borland was hired at another school.

Edited January 8, 2020 by Danger

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Players Graduating
Name	Position	OVR
Taylor Riggins	LE	89
Malcolm Koonce	RE	87
Dev Lamour	FS	81
Tyrone Hill	SS	81
Kadof Wright	LOLB	81
Theo Anderson	RB	81
Zac Lefebvre	TE	79
Kayode Awosika	RT	79
Antonio Nunn	WR	79
Chibueze Onwuka	DT	78
Roy Baker	CB	77
Joe Klenk	C	76
Daniel Lee	WR	76
Justin Mulbah	MLB	75
Jake Fuzak	LT	73
Ali Abbas	CB	70

Gonna be a shame to see a lot of these guys go. Especially the ones on defense. However, Buffalo is reloading and we have a lot of players redshirted ready to fill their shoes.

Taylor Riggins was probably my favorite player on the team, not entirely sure why. And then you had his partner in crime, Malcolm Koonce.
The Safety tandom was also fun to play around with in a variety of ways.
I never really got much use out of OLBs in my Troy dynasty as I usually schemed playing in Nickel or Dime packages, but I now see just how lethal they could be. Was a great ride Kadof Wright.
Zac Lefebvre probably had the most touchdowns of anyone during Coach Posloszny's 2 years at UB.

Ultimately we're seeing 12 starters graduating this year, but we shall rebuild it. We have the technology!

• No Buffalo players were drafted

Edited January 8, 2020 by Danger

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Verbal Commits to Buffalo

OVR Rank

Position Rank

Star

Name

OVR

Position

Height

Weight

40

Interest

-

Visit

Points In

Net Change

Lead/Deficit

62

2

★★★★☆

Cameron Henderson

79 (+2)

CB

5'9"

192

4.32

Committed

1324

10

★★★☆☆

Ben Quinn

82 (+5)

K

6'0"

216

4.82

Committed

1004

53

★★★☆☆

Eddie Fogle

68 (+2)

ATH (DL, OL?)

6'5"

288

4.82

Committed

162

6

★★★★☆

Quincy Clarke

78 (+3)

C

6'2"

285

4.98

Committed

21

7

★★★★★

Brian Henry

72 (-4)

ATH (WR, RB)

6'1"

191

4.38

Committed

730

38

★★★☆☆

Drew Hayward

73 (+5)

CB

6'0"

193

4.48

Committed

37

14

★★★★☆

Nick Brooks

79 (+4)

WR

6'1"

200

4.34

Committed

392

51

★★★☆☆

Anthony Moore

71 (+3)

ATH (QB, WR, RB)

6'3"

221

4.42

Committed

612

50

★★★☆☆

Bo Pennington

71 (+3)

DT

6'0"

308

5.16

Committed

JUCO (JR)

77

★★★☆☆

Dave Austin

80 (+1)

T

6'6"

281

4.82

Committed

108

28

★★★★☆

Joe Ransom

73 (+1)

ATH (QB, WR, RB)

6'3"

204

4.44

Committed

684

45

★★★☆☆

Stanley Williams

71 (+4)

OLB

6'0"

209

4.76

Committed

165

17

★★★★☆

Joel Moore

72 (+1)

RB

6'1"

191

4.40

Committed

57

3

★★★★☆

Carlos Evans

78 (+1)

QB

6'2"

230

5.00

Committed

395

21

★★★☆☆

Korey Alston

70 (-1)

OLB

6'3"

222

4.60

Committed

282

15

★★★☆☆

LaMar Beck

74 (+3)

T

6'6"

285

5.02

Committed

Allow me to start by addressing who is not on this list.

WR Terrell Jacobs could not be persuaded to pick Buffalo over Alabama (who just had their top FOUR WRs drafted, yeah who can blame him). But lets see who IS joining Buffalo next season. (Will do an introducing the Freshman post tomorrow with more in depth)

As for those not previously mentioned:

1. WR Nick Brooks, this dude is a stud athletically, 94 Speed and 78 Catching and not a bad route runner, I think I'm gonna make him my #1 replacing Nunn next year.
2. ATH Anthony Moore, Not entirely sure where he's going to play, but I think he's more talented than he's being given credit for here. Time will tell.
3. DT Bo Pennington, I don't know how much he'll be a main stay on this team, more likely than not he'll be a depth player unless we don't hit on any really talented interior DLineman in years to come.
4. OT Dave Austin, comes in as a JR JUCO transfer, but at 80 overall, I'm not upset with that. He may or may not start right away depending on how some other players work in the offseason.
5. ATH Joe Ransom, seems fairly talented but I need to figure out where he'll fit best for us.
6. OLB Stanley Williams, Not a high end recruit by any means, but we need linebackers given we have 4 graduating between this year and next.
7. RB Joel Moore, He's basically a fallback guy if we can't recruit any top flight guys at RB next year. He has decent speed at 91, but he's really raw as a runner.
8. QB Carlos Evans, I wasn't really going to go after a QB at all this year but no one was really paying him any attention and he's pretty talented. He's a pocket passer with a solid arm, but he definitely plays more traditionally than Mike Kemp. He'll redshirt for sure given the current structure of the team.
9. OLB Korey Alston, Pretty much the same situation as Stanley Williams.
10. OT LaMar Beck, This was the guy I went all in on during the offseason, having already had everyone else I wanted safe in hand and feeling WR Jacobs wasn't going to UB. He won't start next season, but he'll definitely be a starter at some point.

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Old Position	Player		New Position	OVR
ATH	Joe Ransom	>	RB	68
ATH	Anthony Moore	>	QB	75
ATH	Brian Henry	>	WR	77
RB	Rob Cook Jr.	>	FB	61
ATH	Eddie Fogle	>	RG	69
OLB	Stanley Williams	>	MLB	71
CB	Wankeith Akin	>	FS	73

• Joe Ransom kinda seemed to be the odd man out. Musical chairs left him SOL
• Anthony Moore has decent arm strength and accuracy, with 90 speed him and Carlos Evans will have an open competition to take over when Mike Kemp eventually leaves.
• As I thought. Brian Henry was better than they listed him at. He's a good WR, not great but definitely better than what we had this past year.
• Rob Cook Jr. was sacrificed to the NCAA (You have to have 2 Fullbacks on the roster) Gods.
• Eddie Fogle can play OLine, I was hoping he'd be a bit better than this, but he'll still be a good depth player throughout the years.
• Stanley Williams was just as good at MLB as OLB, and MLB is so darn hard to recruit, so I stuck him there.
• Wankeith Akin Jr. was buried on the CB depth chart and he was actually somewhat better at FS, he'll be the 2nd string guy there and will get some snaps when Ricky Chavez needs to come out or in Quarters coverage

 

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Training Results - Top 10 Improved Players
Name	Year	Position	Gain	OVR
Mike Novitsky	Junior (R)	C	7	84
Jacob Gall	Senior (R)	RG	7	83
Jaret Patterson	Senior	RB	6	97
Mike Kemp	Sophomore	QB	5	89
Evan Finegan	Senior (R)	P	5	86
Trevor Wilson	Sophomore (R)	WR	5	85
Ricky Chavez	Freshman (R)	FS	5	82
Gabe Wallace	Junior (R)	RT	5	80
Eddie Wilson	Senior	DT	5	79
Tyrece Woods Jr.	Sophomore (R)	DT	5	79

 

(Only Projected starters were included here)

The interior line really busted their butts this off season, which is great for me and Mike Kemp. Absolutely needed that.

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CONFERENCE CHANGES

THE ACC has added the University of Buffalo to the ACC's Atlantic Division -- NC State will move to the Coastal.
This brings the conferences number of teams back to 14. NC State switched divisions so that Buffalo can be in a division with it's rival Syracuse dubbed (Big Apple Brawl). NC State now joins it's other rivals Duke and UNC in the Coastal Division.

Rutgers
MAC -> American

Coastal Carolina 
Sun Belt -> MAC

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Year 3 Schedule
Week	Location	Opponent
1	--	BYE
2	vs	Temple
3	at	NC State
4	vs	#25 Boston College
5	vs	#12 Miami
6	at	North Carolina
7	at	Oregon State
8	vs	#3 Florida State
9	at	#1 Clemson
10	at	Syracuse
11	--	BYE
12	at	Louisville
13	vs	Wake Forrest
14	at	Vanderbilt

 

Unfortunately it bugged with the Week 14 matchup which I was supposed to be home against Vanderbilt, so we only have 5 home games this year.

The ACC looks ruthless this year. Miami and then FSU and Clemson back to back. It's gonna be difficult.

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Year 3 Roster

Offense Skill Players

QB

OVR

Yr

HB

OVR

Yr

FB

OVR

Yr

WR

OVR

Yr

TE

OVR

Yr

Mike Kemp

89

SO

Jaret Patterson

97

SR

Ron Cook Jr.

65

SO (R)

Nick Brooks

79

FR

Travis Hardin

76

FR (R)

Kyle Vantrease

85

SR (R)

Kevin Marks

92

SR (R)

Dylan McDuffie

57

JR (R)

Trevor Wilson

85

SO (R)

Julien Bourassa

77

SR (R)

Matt Myers

79

JR (R)

Jesse Dailey

82

FR (R)

Charlie Jones

88

SR (R)

Tyler Stephens

74

SO (R)

Trevor Bycznski

76

SO (R)

Joel Moore

72

FR

Rodney Cooper

80

FR (R)

Carlos Evans

78

FR

Joe Ransom

68

FR

Jelani Foster

74

SO (R)

Anthony Moore

75

FR

LeMario Smith Jr

74

JR (R)

Javien Cuff

73

SO (R)

Brian Henry

77

FR

Offense Skill Players

LT

OVR

Yr

LG

OVR

Yr

C

OVR

Yr

RG

OVR

Yr

RT

OVR

Yr

Ray Foster

79

SO

Brandon Daniels

81

JR

Mike Novitsky

84

JR (R)

Jacob Gall

83

SR (R)

Gabe Wallace

80

JR (R)

Dan Kubik

78

SR (R)

Ray Foster

79

SO

Quincy Clarke

78

FR

Eddie Fogle

69

FR

Dan Kubik

78

SR (R)

Craig Adams

65

FR

Dave Austin

80

JR

Defensive Players

LE

OVR

Yr

DT

OVR

Yr

RE

OVR

Yr

LOLB

OVR

Yr

ROLB

OVR

Yr

Justin Roberts

85

FR (R)

Tyrece Woods Jr.

79

SO (R)

Brent Mills

85

FR (R)

Randy Wade

78

FR (R)

James Patterson

94

SR

Jordan Avissey

74

SO (R)

Lonnie Irby

78

FR (R)

Frendy Darelus

78

SR (R)

Ja'Varius Harrison

77

SR (R)

Caleb Tate

74

SO (R)

Ronald Smiley

71

FR

Eddie Wilson

79

SO (R)

Kyler Laing

76

SO (R)

Korey Alston

70

FR

Ronald McGee

78

JR (R)

Bo Pennington

71

FR

Defensive Players

MLB

OVR

Yr

CB

OVR

Yr

FS

OVR

Yr

SS

OVR

Yr

Rich Miller

76

SO (R)

Aapri Washington

91

SR (R)

Ricky Chavez

82

FR (R)

Mike Jones

83

FR (R)

Tim Terry Jr.

77

SR (R)

Jonathan Wilson

79

FR (R)

Wankeith Akin Jr.

78

SR (R)

Dawun Hylton

75

SR (R)

Stanley Williams

71

FR

Mark Davis

76

SO (R)

Marcus Fuqua

74

SO (R)

Cory Gross Jr.

73

JR (R)

Isaiah King

73

SR (R)

Camerson Henderson

79

FR

Drew Hayward

73

FR

Special Teams

K

OVR

Yr

P

OVR

Yr

Ben Quinn

82

FR

Evan Finegan

86

SR (R)

Player set to Graduate
Impact Player
Out of Position
True Freshman Starting
Redshirt