Non-US Teams and Players?

[Roger Kaputnik]

Can teams and players come from outside of the 50 states and DC? Are other US territories allowed? (Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.) How about Canada & Mexico? Other places?

[Cooleyvol]

Can teams and players come from outside of the 50 states and DC? Are other US territories allowed? (Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.) How about Canada & Mexico? Other places?

Players, I can see, but teams?

[Roger Kaputnik]

I am looking to add a conference of Canadian schools plus one from the US territories.

[btmlltt]

Just rename the teams to the names of Canadian schools... That's what I did with TPF

[Jimmy Spamer]

Yeah but not actually having them in Canada will affect how recruiting is supposed to work.

[btmlltt]

Locate them in the state directly below the province. Not perfect, but a workaround.

[Chappy]

Here's an OT question - Are there any Canadian universities that actually field football teams, and if so, are their rules more like the NCAA's or the CFL's?

[btmlltt]

hehe, there are plenty that field football teams (http://www.universitysport.ca/e/members/by_sport.cfm#Football), yes. I don't follow it, but I believe they are CFL-like in rules. They certainly don't follow NFL rules, for obvious reasons.

It's nowhere near as big as NCAA football because there aren't as many schools, and we simply don't treat collegiate sports the way Americans do. The amount of "I'm here to play <insert sport here>" students in Canada would be way lower than in the US.

[Chappy]

Thanks! That's good info.

[Roger Kaputnik]

One of the X box games I used to play allowed for Canadian teams and players. The problem was that the game considered all of Canada adjacent to every bordering state. That gave Canadian schools a huge recruiting advantage. A school from say, Nova Scotia, could draw recruits from Michigan or Washington or New York because all of Canada was considered a neighboring state.

And yes they do play college football in Canada. The first college game on record was between Harvard and McGill.

[btmlltt]

My old school (Mount Allison (http://www.mta.ca)) was located in a town called Sackville. The defense had shirts that said, "They don't call it Sackville for nothing" with a picture of a defender towering over a fallen QB. :cool:

brad

[Roger Kaputnik]

I am bumping this because I never got an official answer and Arlie said in another thread that he would answer game related questions.

[Roger Kaputnik]

Arlie, why hasn’t this question been answered? It is a simple yes or no question—does the game allow for non-US players and teams or not?

[chammer39]

No.

[Arlie Rahn]

There are not non-US players as they make up an extremely small sample size in college football (as compared to say college hoops). As to locating teams in canada or mexico, that would not work either as each team needs to have a state and region for recruiting. We did not add in the ability to have "Canada" or "Mexico" as a state as there are no college football teams in the formats we checked in those areas right now.

[javier_83]

Hi Arlie

can we are going to be able, to make ONEFA 12 Grandes, and CONFERENCIA NACIONAL

this is from Mexico, the champion of Nacional go to 12 grandes, and the worst team of Nacional goes to Nacional

[Scott Vibert]

There is no promotion or relegation in Bowl Bound.

[Roger Kaputnik]

There are not non-US players as they make up an extremely small sample size in college football (as compared to say college hoops). As to locating teams in canada or mexico, that would not work either as each team needs to have a state and region for recruiting. We did not add in the ability to have "Canada" or "Mexico" as a state as there are no college football teams in the formats we checked in those areas right now.

Thanks for the answer.