HOLY SHIT, I have owned this game since 2007 and I never knew you could add schools to the list of Legacy Mode. I’ve wanted to start with UTC for YEARS. Thank you!
Hire assistant coaches that have high teaching and charisma, that helps with recruiting as far as player priority and the teaching rating helps players develop
For the ABL, if you play the games and let the CPU play them the whole way through you get recruiting points that you can use for the upcoming season. Like having more points for recruits
@@coachferrier I hear some people just let the control sit there so the CPU team scores all the points instead of your team being up and the CPU doing late game fouling to try and get the ball back.
hey dude! thanks for the video soooooo much stuff i had no idea about!!! thanks for putting this together. STARTING MY DYNASTY TONIGHT!!! VERMONT WHAT UP
For ABL one minute halves, it will ruin the stats for the scouting prospective players, and the statistics are useful to offset the flaws in our scouting that occur the first 5-7 years of the legacy mode before we have an (A+) scouting rating for our head coach
To confirm, you are able to pick multiple teams in a dynasty mode? If so, does anybody know how many, and how many years the dynasty mode can go up to? Thank you in advance.
For both open and closed mode you can pick 4 teams. I have done 4 team legacies before but never saw it through the end so I just assume you can do 40 years.
I don’t know if I’m missing something but I have not been able to find an option to add a recruit to my target list. Several weeks into the season and my target list is empty, no players with the blue letters. Makes it very frustrating trying to remember which players I was interested in the sea of recruits with green/yellow letters
@@barelycopper4959game is notoriously bad at user interface. Probably my biggest gripe is how difficult it is to find things but watching videos of other people do things helped me out. I didn't realize I can see my roster from the recruiting screen just by pushing the analog stick in instead of exiting recruiting and going all the way over to roster management. I felt slow..
The hardest part for me has been going from Mid Major such as Saint Mary’s or New Mexico State to getting to coach at a power conference such as PAC 12 or SEC. Do you need to make a Final four ?
There are multiple factors at play when making this jump. The biggest thing is that the CPU hires coaches primarily based on their overall rating as a coach. Typically the CPU at power conferences wants to hire coaches with an overall of A-. The fastest way to get this overall is to compete the legacy goals like sign a world recruit, 200 wins, etc. There are still two factors tht impact ability to get one of these jobs. First is gonna be performance. So let’s say Duke just came open and you have an A-. If there are multiple coaches with an A- wanting the job the one who performed the best recently will get the job. So if you missed the tournament and a CPU coach made the sweet 16 he’s getting picked over you. Lastly is availability. The CPU really doesn’t fire coaches at the power conference level. If they do it’s at one of the worst teams you don’t want to take the job for. Me myself I have mitigated this by editing the coach ages on my roster to line their retirement up with when they left a team. For example I have the Florida coach’s age, Billy Donovan, setup for him to retire around 2015, otherwise Florida isn’t available until like 2035. Hope this helps.
Love that advice thanks so much . Right now I’m in the year 2023 at San Francisco in the elite 8 against Texas . I have A+ Charisma and A- in teaching. So I think if we can make a run then I have a chance at a Major conference. Never realized that the coach’s tenure can be that long. Makes sense . Thanks again
I was having fun playing this mode, I was playing north Carolina I was 15-1 #1 team had been playing for about 5-6 hours, then the game crashed after I did a drill, I thought that's annoying but I'll just relaunch the game, opened the game back up and went to load my legacy only to find there was no save, It made me very mad because Autosave is a very basic feature that pretty much every video game has except this one.
Do you have any knowledge on the offensive playbooks for sure? I’m not at home right now to test the options. Like is box dribble drive or is that your opinion? Do the guys actually play different or to the style of the playbook? I want to test out that Princeton playbook as well to see if they actually run those concepts. Thanks for the video, good stuff in here
I’m going to say I don’t know for sure because I don’t have a source or my own data, so this is completely anecdotal and based off my experiences but this is how I use the playbooks based on my rosters Box- put it on the floor driving players so handles with good inside scoring particularly at PG Princeton- guys cutting to the basket, has workers for more up tempo offenses UCLA High Post- if I have a skilled Center like Walton/Kareem/Jokic as the star Flex- multi guard starting lineup that includes at least two PGs/CGs 4 Out- small ball Stack- haven’t figured this out I tried it with big lineups and shooting lineups but saw nothing significant either way Motion- I honestly just us this if I don’t know what to pick
@@imaynor cool, thanks for sharing. I’m going to do some digging on this as well. Really wish they would remake this game as well. Feel like they could do some awesome things with it
Bro, would you be able to do a short video on shooting and dribble moves??? Im familiar with CH2K6 but this volume is something new to me and its kinda hard its definitely not a pick up and play basketball game.
So you don’t offer any scholarships until right before the in season signing period ends? Then grind the guys you offered until the offseason recruiting period ends??
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I go ahead and offer my top targets and keep recruiting back up targets in case I can’t land my top targets. Right before the signing period ends I decide if I will land my top targets or not. If not I then offer my back up targets. You do have to grind your targets from the end of the in season signing period to the offseason recruiting because you never know what will happen with the CPU stealing your targets.
This might be dumb but For the scouting attribute, you were saying it reveals info about opponents (unless I misheard) where do you find this information?
@@TheJmill31 The day you play a team find them in the conference settings and click in the right analog stick then cycle through until you see three different pages. One page shows what they run on offense and shot distribution; another page is the same thing for defense. These two pages can help you adjust coaching sliders. The third page gives you stats. I find this page more useful if you play the games because you figure out who to file, leading scorers, etc.
Man this is some advanced level shit - only just picked this game up and literally have no idea how to even begin to dive into all the legacy mode stuff - can you 'watch' the games as in let the AI play the AI? I prefer to be the coach but would love to do a dynasty like that. Also - do players have fictional names or is it all 'Position #Number' ?
Yes here is how. 1. Make your School and save the roster 2. Start a new legacy and make sure you enable "Customize Conferences" 3. After all other settings are selected press start 4. Select a team to remove for the legacy mode 5. Tab left to select your created school
I think having them on the watchlist with assisted recruiting on does it for you. I never manually recruit under classmen I just add them to the watch list.
That is more than likely because the team you are on has only one graduating senior. There is also the chance you have no graduating senior but the scholarship wasn’t filled when he left the previous season.
Players that actually play progress more throughout the season and they also gain experience. This experience impacts team unity/game experience which makes a player more productive in the simulation.
I think you may have looked at O Riley B or C for the date by mistake. O Riley A bracket is played on 11/11/2007 in the first season when you start a new legacy. That is the second Sunday you can schedule a game to play. O Riley B & C brackets are played on 11/12/2007 in the first season when you start a new legacy. That is the second Monday you can schedule a game to play. The playable Sundays to avoid in the first season are 11/4/07, 11/11/07, 11/18/07, 11/25/07, 12/2/07 and 12/9/07. The dates for the Sundays to avoid as well as the tournaments will change but O Riley A will always be the second Sunday and O Riley B/C will always be the second Monday you can schedule. I hope this helps.
Great video explaining recruiting and Strategy Do you ever play in game? If so any tips. I use to play 2k8 from 2016-2019 then sold it and just play 2k7 basically the same lol
HOLY SHIT, I have owned this game since 2007 and I never knew you could add schools to the list of Legacy Mode. I’ve wanted to start with UTC for YEARS. Thank you!
Na man thank you for watching
Hire assistant coaches that have high teaching and charisma, that helps with recruiting as far as player priority and the teaching rating helps players develop
For the ABL, if you play the games and let the CPU play them the whole way through you get recruiting points that you can use for the upcoming season. Like having more points for recruits
Great point that I omitted. This is extremely helpful when you are at small/mid-major conference schools
yeah that’s 800 years xtra points
Turn the game length down to 1 minute, and either play or coach the ABL games. You get the same benefits
@@coachferrier I hear some people just let the control sit there so the CPU team scores all the points instead of your team being up and the CPU doing late game fouling to try and get the ball back.
Many, many thanks my man. I just took a note cards worth of notes and feel much more confident that I know what's going on now.
No problem. This is a game with a whole lotta depth but they didn’t provide a lot of insight
hey dude! thanks for the video soooooo much stuff i had no idea about!!! thanks for putting this together. STARTING MY DYNASTY TONIGHT!!! VERMONT WHAT UP
Glad I could help! Let me know how it goes.
Just curious how did that legacy mode go?
I’ve been back to this video like 3 times already, this game is more complicated then I expected, but it’s way better and more fleshed out then 10
Yea it’s kinda disappointing considering how great the presentation is on 10 but this game 2k8 is very intricate
@@imaynor yea the gameplay in 10 isn’t as good as 2k8 either unfortunately
U can play abl one 1 min Half’s you can get some easy scouting done that way and more recruiting points
Yes very useful for small schools
For ABL one minute halves, it will ruin the stats for the scouting prospective players, and the statistics are useful to offset the flaws in our scouting that occur the first 5-7 years of the legacy mode before we have an (A+) scouting rating for our head coach
I rewatched the video so many times! 😅 I made sure I was looking at A. I tested it twice in years 8-10ish. A was the Monday. It sucked 😂
To confirm, you are able to pick multiple teams in a dynasty mode? If so, does anybody know how many, and how many years the dynasty mode can go up to? Thank you in advance.
For both open and closed mode you can pick 4 teams. I have done 4 team legacies before but never saw it through the end so I just assume you can do 40 years.
I don’t know if I’m missing something but I have not been able to find an option to add a recruit to my target list. Several weeks into the season and my target list is empty, no players with the blue letters. Makes it very frustrating trying to remember which players I was interested in the sea of recruits with green/yellow letters
Got to the recruit you want to add and press the start button. You should get the option to add them to the target list or to manage the target list.
you have no idea how dumb i feel rn@@imaynor
Na it’s a pretty deep game that doesn’t doesn’t do a good job of explaining itself. In doing these videos I learned a lot.
@@barelycopper4959game is notoriously bad at user interface. Probably my biggest gripe is how difficult it is to find things but watching videos of other people do things helped me out. I didn't realize I can see my roster from the recruiting screen just by pushing the analog stick in instead of exiting recruiting and going all the way over to roster management. I felt slow..
The hardest part for me has been going from Mid Major such as Saint Mary’s or New Mexico State to getting to coach at a power conference such as PAC 12 or SEC. Do you need to make a Final four ?
There are multiple factors at play when making this jump. The biggest thing is that the CPU hires coaches primarily based on their overall rating as a coach. Typically the CPU at power conferences wants to hire coaches with an overall of A-. The fastest way to get this overall is to compete the legacy goals like sign a world recruit, 200 wins, etc. There are still two factors tht impact ability to get one of these jobs. First is gonna be performance. So let’s say Duke just came open and you have an A-. If there are multiple coaches with an A- wanting the job the one who performed the best recently will get the job. So if you missed the tournament and a CPU coach made the sweet 16 he’s getting picked over you. Lastly is availability. The CPU really doesn’t fire coaches at the power conference level. If they do it’s at one of the worst teams you don’t want to take the job for. Me myself I have mitigated this by editing the coach ages on my roster to line their retirement up with when they left a team. For example I have the Florida coach’s age, Billy Donovan, setup for him to retire around 2015, otherwise Florida isn’t available until like 2035. Hope this helps.
Love that advice thanks so much . Right now I’m in the year 2023 at San Francisco in the elite 8 against Texas . I have A+ Charisma and A- in teaching. So I think if we can make a run then I have a chance at a Major conference. Never realized that the coach’s tenure can be that long. Makes sense . Thanks again
@@wexlersethI been at Santa Clara 3 years we in the same conference good luck bro
@@michaeljordan6373 both are good schools bc of location for recruiting. Sometimes I feel like the west coast conference is just harder to win.
How’d you start your career mode with Kentucky though? I thought it had to be with small conference schools from the list…..
Do an Open legacy instead of Closed
I was having fun playing this mode, I was playing north Carolina I was 15-1 #1 team had been playing for about 5-6 hours, then the game crashed after I did a drill, I thought that's annoying but I'll just relaunch the game, opened the game back up and went to load my legacy only to find there was no save, It made me very mad because Autosave is a very basic feature that pretty much every video game has except this one.
Yea I should have included that frequent saves are a must. I hate when this happens.
Do you have any knowledge on the offensive playbooks for sure? I’m not at home right now to test the options. Like is box dribble drive or is that your opinion? Do the guys actually play different or to the style of the playbook? I want to test out that Princeton playbook as well to see if they actually run those concepts. Thanks for the video, good stuff in here
I’m going to say I don’t know for sure because I don’t have a source or my own data, so this is completely anecdotal and based off my experiences but this is how I use the playbooks based on my rosters
Box- put it on the floor driving players so handles with good inside scoring particularly at PG
Princeton- guys cutting to the basket, has workers for more up tempo offenses
UCLA High Post- if I have a skilled Center like Walton/Kareem/Jokic as the star
Flex- multi guard starting lineup that includes at least two PGs/CGs
4 Out- small ball
Stack- haven’t figured this out I tried it with big lineups and shooting lineups but saw nothing significant either way
Motion- I honestly just us this if I don’t know what to pick
@@imaynor cool, thanks for sharing. I’m going to do some digging on this as well. Really wish they would remake this game as well. Feel like they could do some awesome things with it
Yea if you play my gm on 2k and see how in depth the game planning can be it could be phenomenal
Bro, would you be able to do a short video on shooting and dribble moves??? Im familiar with CH2K6 but this volume is something new to me and its kinda hard its definitely not a pick up and play basketball game.
I will work on it!
@@imaynor Thank you so much!
In the meantime I just dropped this
College Hoops 2k8 Legacy Mode Guide
ruclips.net/video/AlcrIgYMCUw/видео.html
@@imaynor I'm going to watch this right now
Tried adding Loyola Chicago but it didnt work, do i release some of the players to make them suck more? Lol
They are technically a mid-major and not a small conference so I’m not sure you can start a closed legacy with them
What offense playbook you recommend for a Jokic type center?
When in doubt go motion but I would assume UCLA high post
So you don’t offer any scholarships until right before the in season signing period ends? Then grind the guys you offered until the offseason recruiting period ends??
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I go ahead and offer my top targets and keep recruiting back up targets in case I can’t land my top targets. Right before the signing period ends I decide if I will land my top targets or not. If not I then offer my back up targets. You do have to grind your targets from the end of the in season signing period to the offseason recruiting because you never know what will happen with the CPU stealing your targets.
how do you get to the screen to see how old the players on your roster are at each position? it’s in the recruiting examples part of the video.
When in the recruiting screen click in the left stick then tab through until you see the screen.
This might be dumb but For the scouting attribute, you were saying it reveals info about opponents (unless I misheard) where do you find this information?
The attribute says that and you do get scouting reports for opponents. Not too sure how the attribute rating impact this
Cool 👍🏼 where are those reports?
@@TheJmill31 The day you play a team find them in the conference settings and click in the right analog stick then cycle through until you see three different pages. One page shows what they run on offense and shot distribution; another page is the same thing for defense. These two pages can help you adjust coaching sliders. The third page gives you stats. I find this page more useful if you play the games because you figure out who to file, leading scorers, etc.
You mentioned Tony Bennett. Is there a way to run his vaunted packline defense?
One of the zones may implement similar principles like I think there’s a 2-2-1 or maybe playing the 2-1-2 with loose defense
Create recruits man’s them 5 or 4 star world players and recruit nonstop … you’ll get them majority of times
That's cheating bro
Man this is some advanced level shit - only just picked this game up and literally have no idea how to even begin to dive into all the legacy mode stuff - can you 'watch' the games as in let the AI play the AI? I prefer to be the coach but would love to do a dynasty like that. Also - do players have fictional names or is it all 'Position #Number' ?
In legacy mode you can just straight up watch AI play vs AI or you can do coach mode.
You can generate fake names for your roster.
Can you add created teams to career legacy or no?
Yes here is how.
1. Make your School and save the roster
2. Start a new legacy and make sure you enable "Customize Conferences"
3. After all other settings are selected press start
4. Select a team to remove for the legacy mode
5. Tab left to select your created school
Is it necessary to do the 5 point recruit call on juniors every week?? Kind of annoying pausing the game every week to boost my % by a little
I think having them on the watchlist with assisted recruiting on does it for you. I never manually recruit under classmen I just add them to the watch list.
Hey can yall help me out just bought this game for first time, why do I only have 1 scholarship?
That is more than likely because the team you are on has only one graduating senior. There is also the chance you have no graduating senior but the scholarship wasn’t filled when he left the previous season.
@@imaynor damn makes sense, but at the same time it doesn’t. Should let me have as many as I want, and cut players during the offseason. Thanks man
@@fleyedd1479 You can cut players and open up their scholarships. IDK if they open immediately or the next season tho.
Do you know how playing a player in games affects development?
Players that actually play progress more throughout the season and they also gain experience. This experience impacts team unity/game experience which makes a player more productive in the simulation.
Oreilly A is the second MONDAY of November, not Sunday. This just screwed me 😂
I think you may have looked at O Riley B or C for the date by mistake.
O Riley A bracket is played on 11/11/2007 in the first season when you start a new legacy. That is the second Sunday you can schedule a game to play.
O Riley B & C brackets are played on 11/12/2007 in the first season when you start a new legacy. That is the second Monday you can schedule a game to play.
The playable Sundays to avoid in the first season are 11/4/07, 11/11/07, 11/18/07, 11/25/07, 12/2/07 and 12/9/07.
The dates for the Sundays to avoid as well as the tournaments will change but O Riley A will always be the second Sunday and O Riley B/C will always be the second Monday you can schedule.
I hope this helps.
Does this apply ro ps2???
I couldn’t tell you. I have not played that version since it came out.
Great video explaining recruiting and Strategy
Do you ever play in game? If so any tips.
I use to play 2k8 from 2016-2019 then sold it and just play 2k7 basically the same lol
You can cheese the full court trap to spam steals
@@imaynori usually use full court man to man on coach mode & the cpu does a back court violation quite a bit lol
youd be a better coach than Kenny Payne
It’s insane to see Louisville drag down the ACC in basketball like this. Football team solid tho.
I guess that’s a pause as well..😭⚰️
Big pause 😂