Josh Walriven

Officially weigh less then when I was in High School. Only 30 lbs away from goal. The year of effort and results. Here is a before and after.

@MillsTwitch yeah, Im active on the CFB 27 twitter reading all the negativity and Im having a blast with CFB 27. Its needs some love and some balancing but the gameplay is, Imo, great!

As a reminder: People can have opinions. They don't have to align with yours. Neither is "right" most of the time, too many shades of gray. Don't allow others to dictate your fun. If you have fun - have fun. If you don't - don't. No one gets to tell you that but you.

@POG_Juic3 @maxplayscfb you dont even need to offer. I did this same strategy for Year 2 with my 0* cupcake created school and finished 19th with 3 4* and 30 3*. Everything he said in this video works. Also the CPU big schools will sometimes try to sneak some players on the cheap so I dont feel so bad

@maxplayscfb Just to be sure I understand as long as i get them to hard commit, I then do a 0 NIL offer afterwards?

You can still DOMINATE recruiting as a small school. Here is exactly how!

@NYYTyler @maxplayscfb No dont even offer. Just finish in first like he said

@maxplayscfb Should you offer a 4 star expecting ~200 NIL a 0 or 5 NIL scholarship if its last week of transfer portal and they have no other offers? Or just keep hours on them and hope they commit

@MisterCiv 2. Solid Pressure on QB 3. Contain the QB. These are opposing things though. You are either getting solid pressure or containing. If you stop flats and streaks you should be vulnerable to out routes and crossers

I am looking for a Defense... It must do these 5 things 1. Stop The Run 2. Solid Pressure on QB 3. Contain the QB 4. Stop Flat Throws 5. Stop Streaks It must do all of them... ALL AT ONCE. We will find this...

@maxplayscfb Also with the 4*. Pay attention to how much other teams interest bars are moving. You can tell by that if they are making a serious offer or not. If a team with major pipeline has a big jump, get out

@maxplayscfb I did scout the cheap 3* Would offer 1.5- 2x NIL. Ended up with 30*. Never used hours on 3*. Ended up with 3 4* using only hours. A lot of schools wait too late on 4* and if you get in early you can snatch them for zero NIL

after the patch, can confirm you can still dominate offline recruiting - how about the #33 class at AIR FORCE!!! Most importantly, look at that NIL spend compared to my peers - others are spending 1400 for the same talent that cost us 200

@maxplayscfb I will say retention is hard. Once you do well with said players they want 200+ NIL the next year and I dont have that kind of bag

@RonaldHardathan @maxplayscfb I am about the same. Everything is 300% and K/P at 80%

@maxplayscfb Anyone have any good XP sliders to solve this? Was thinking about just increasing the normal sliders to nearly 300 and lowering kicker and punter sliders to 65-75ish

my final post on the matter: * are there about ~100 less unsigned 4-star recruits now? YES * did EA just remove 100 4-stars and 440ish 3-stars and replace them with 2 star recruits? ALSO YES but wait - they said they were going to make recruits progress more, right? no evidence of it yet! Which still leads to the same problem where 10 years in the future, teams are getting a lot worse

@maxplayscfb I had a 0* cupcake create a school. End of Year 2 I had the 19th class while spending around 250 NIL. Its possible just have to know what to do. Went from a 69-78 overall

transfer heavy class, brought Air Force from 66 overall to 74 overall IN ONE OFFSEASON on auto progression!!

@mymarvelouslife @Poodle_YT Just looked it up. Alabama leads IRL 5* with 17 in the last 4 years. Georgia is second at 14. So the elite schools sign 3-4 a year. I agree that the top schools dominate the 5* but not like this is showing. This needs balanced to be divided among all of the top programs.

@jwal1983 @Poodle_YT breaks immersion for me smh. in any given year in real life, a school having 5+ five stars is considered a lot. top programs usually cap out at like 3-4

Post CFB 27 title update, CPU recruiting appears to be fixed. Recruits aren’t going unsigned like before, and the teams are filling out their recruiting boards much better. Remains to be seen how coach XP settings are functioning and long term impacts of these changes. Discord member shared this with me from Reddit

@DedicatedBeard @maxplayscfb Same, even then its rough. I would like to see some really elite players in the upper it's but even at 300%xp there are a handful of low 90's

@maxplayscfb Yeahhh, I keeping the XP sliders on 300 lol

i am so confused right now. as of 1:30pm EST today, i can say: * EA reduced the number of forgotten four stars from a TON to under 5ish * EA reduced total 4-stars from ~400 to ~300 * EA reduced total 3-stars from ~1400 to ~900 * EA increased total 2-stars from ~1200 to ~1800 but then also: * i see no evidence that today's players are progressing more year over year? * i see no evidence that new recruits have better dev traits? * i see no evidence that 'today's recruits' are stronger than the 'recruits from before the patch' So that means that: * yes, players are no longer going unsigned but * are we sure more 4-stars and 3-stars are getting signed? or are we just generating less players? very confused, especially given that we were supposed to see 'Adjusted offseason player progression to increase across the board' - where is that?

@maxplayscfb Ohhh this is interesting

THIS MAY CHANGE ONCE THEY DO THEIR 'FINISHING TOUCHES' - if it does, ill just delete the post and double check - but it seems like this is a legit part of their plan?

Been sitting on this for 3 hours while EA does their 'finishing touches', but figured I would share In addition to whatever CPU recruiting changes they have made, they have also just made way less 4 stars, way less 3 stars, and converted them into 2 stars Interesting choice

@flocko @Poodle_YT Agreed on the 2* and below get rid of then and create a slightly bigger range on 3*. OSU isnt signing that many 5* IRL though.

@jwal1983 @Poodle_YT biggest issue is only the top 3-5 teams still snag all the 5* recruits and that leaves a massive gap in talent between the rest of the pack

@Poodle_YT 17 1* signed is nasty work by the CPU

@MisterCiv I really hate how we as a community try to find one defense that stops everything. That isnt real football

Can you tell what Coverage I'm in here?

@PAPAxC4 I created a 0* cupcake school. Every year my top players want 200+ NIL to stay. I've determined that developing players isnt in the cards. Every year I start freshman who are cheap.

From the College Football 27 update today. For 0-2 star prestige schools how do you guys feel about the NIL demands of players at the end of the season from your team? The demands seem insane to me but also maybe I’ve only seen extreme examples and it’s a good challenge

@MisterCiv Asking why are you like this? And who hurt them?

You're on Offense You're passing the ball You see this Defense... What's first thing you're doing?

@Call_Me_Jaden1 3* WR to TE

@Call_Me_Jaden1 Just switched a slower elite dev 3* to TE. 79 overall pure possession

I am doing my TE archetype deep dive today and found something interesting… Anyone else notice Pure Possession TEs going extinct in CFB27?😂 I literally have 1 possession in this whole recruiting class and he a 1⭐️. Not sure what they did to my favorite TE archetype from last year but I don’t like it